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Engaging Students Through Active Learning USING A CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM Presented by Eric Stavney, M.S. If you’d like to participate today with your mobile phone, tablet, or laptop, use your browser to go to pollev.com/ericstavney992.

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Engaging Students Through Active Learning

USING A CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM

Presented by Eric Stavney, M.S.

If you’d like to participate today with your mobile phone, tablet, or laptop, use your browser to go to pollev.com/ericstavney992.

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Force = mass x acceleration

Remember that:

Acceleration (or deceleration) = change in velocity/change in time

= (vfinal – vinitial)/(tfinal – tinitial)

Force exerted on the rock = mass of the rock x acceleration (deceleration)

A 0.5 kg rock travelling 20 m/s hits the windshield of a parked car, bringing it to a stop in 0.1 s.

What is the average force acting on the rock to bring it to rest?

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Force = mass x acceleration

Remember that:

Acceleration (or deceleration) = change in velocity/change in time

= (vfinal – vinitial)/(tfinal – tinitial)

= (0 m/s– 20 m/s)/(0.1 s – 0 s)

=

Force exerted on the rock = mass of the rock x acceleration (deceleration)

m/s/s or m/s2- 2

A 0.5 kg rock travelling 20 m/s hits the windshield of a parked car, bringing it to a stop in 0.1 s.

What is the average force acting on the rock to bring it to rest?

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Take Away Concepts

• What’s it like to use an CRS?• What is a CRS?• Challenges in Teaching in a Traditional Classroom• Benefits of Active Learning through Polling• Clickers vs Mobile Devices, or Both• Example CRS Systems • Questions & References

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What’s a CRS?

• A wireless system enabling students to answer instructor-posed questions.

• A system that compiles student input in graphical form (pie chart, histogram, word cloud, etc.)

• A system that can track student input individually behind the scenes (and add to a grade sheet in Canvas)

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Challenges in the Traditional Classroom

• Student-instructor interaction limited• Students may be reluctant to respond• The same students tend to answer all the questions• Instructors can’t get a good “read” on the class• Students are isolated within the audience• Having enough time

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Why Implement Active Learning Using Polling?

• Instructor gets broad class data

• Allows instructor to change the presentation

• More participation

• Immediate feedback

• Benefit from seeing other votes

• Good for “flipped classroom” model

• Peer discussion enhances understanding

• Constructivist vs exposition-centered learning• Extra benefit for disadvantaged or female students

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Student “Clickers”

We have 4 sets of 45 clickers that can be checked out for 2 days or 1 week

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Why Use Mobile Devices and Laptops?

• Cost: Clicker prices are still $30-$40, plus subscription• Distribution/collection challenges• Clicker receivers have to be set up in lecture rooms• Limited clicker sets limit widespread use

However,• Many students already own a phone, tablet or laptop

• Can use university wi-fi/internet or their own data plan

• Some polling software allows use of both clickers and mobile

• Issue: The “digital divide”; polls that rely on texting; reliability

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Company Cost per year License ModeliClicker $45 per clicker- Clicker (Models

vary)Students (or departments) purchase clicker. Instructor downloads software.

eInstruction $20 per clicker or $1500 for clicker set- (models vary)

Students (or departments purchase clickers. Instructor downloads Software.

Qwizdom $70 per clicker,$500 for instructor software or $1800 for clicker set – (models vary)

Students purchase a clicker or department purchases a clicker set to share.

Poll Everywhere Free (up to 40 students); then $14 per student per year and $349+ per semester for instructor

Students (or departments) purchase a license and students bring a mobile device to the classroom. The entire poll is web-based.

Turning TechnologiesRespondware

(we have TurningPoint)

$15 for one year license per student/$20 for two year license. :Students register once for all courses; can registerMobile Devices and Clickers

Students (or departments) purchase a ResponseWare license. Students can use any device that can connect to the internet, downloading an app to mobile devices.

Some Classroom Response Systems

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Anderson, Jeremy. American International College, for slides describing uses of polling in classroom, http://www.slideshare.net/

Haak et al. (2011) Increased structure and active learning reduce the achievement gap in introductory biology. Science 332(6034):1213–1216.

Freeman, S. et al. (2014) Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. PNAS, 111 (23) p. 8410–8415

Lorenzo et al. (2006) Reducing the gender gap in the physics classroom Am J Phys 74(2):118-122.

Stowell, Jeremy. Use of clickers vs. mobile devices for classroom polling. Computers & Education 82 (2015) 329-334

References

Questions?

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Thank you!

This presentation available atslideshare.com. Search for

Engaging Students Through Active Learning: Using a Classroom

Response System

or Eric Stavney

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