Salvaging the one-shot with clickers

Micah MuerInstructional Technology and Information Literacy Librarian

Mat-Su College, UAA

What kind of library do you work in/want to work in?

A. Academic LibraryB. Public LibraryC. School libraryD. Special libraryE. Other library

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Have you ever used clickers as a teacher?

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Part One: Introduction

What is a clicker?

Hardware choices

Where did clickers come from?

When were classroom response systems first used in lectures?

A. 1960sB. 1970sC. 1980sD. 1990sE. 2000s

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“Participation Presenter-Audience Reaction System,”

1972.

“Arithmetic Teaching Apparatus”, 1971.

Early research: kind of promising.

40 years on: how we’re using clickers today

Agile teaching

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Time for telling

Your sister calls to say she’s having twins. Which of the following is more likely?

(Assume she’s not having identical twins.)

A. Twin boysB. Twin girlsC. One boy and one

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Peer instruction

1: A person in Boulder, Colorado observes the planet Jupiter on the eastern horizon right after sunset. Six hours later Jupiter

will be…

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2: A person in Boulder, Colorado observes the planet Jupiter on the eastern horizon right after sunset. Six hours later Jupiter

will be…

A. Low in the southB. High in the southC. Nearly directly

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2: A person in Boulder, Colorado observes the planet Jupiter on the eastern horizon right after

sunset. Six hours later Jupiter will be…

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Games and contests

Developing a Research Strategy

Evaluating Material

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You are assigned a research topic for geometry class on the history of Pascal’s

triangle (5-10 pages). Which source is the best one for background information on this topic

A. Concise Encyclopedia of MathematicsB. Encyclopedia of Science and TechnologyC. Oxford English DictionaryD. Trigonometry Textbook

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Back to question screen

You want to write a paper on the politics of a poem by Allen Ginsberg entitled “Hadda

Been Playing on the Jukebox” and have found only two articles, which is not

enough for your paper. What is the best course of action?

A. Change your topicB. Broaden your topicC. Narrow your topic

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You hear on a radio talk show that Mad Cow Disease may have been found in Canada.

How might you bestdetermine the truth of this statement?

A. Get a radio transcriptB. Check the American Council on

Beef websiteC. Ask some coworkersD. Check the Department of

Agriculture Website

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You must write a paper on the environmental practices of Sony Corporation. Which of the following is most likely to provide balanced

information?

A. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov)

B. Economic Development Board (edb.org)C. Sony (sony.com)D. Greenpeace (greenpeace.org)

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Participant LeadersPoints Participant Points Participant

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What percentage of your current points would you like to wager on the next question?

A. 0%B. 25%C. 50%D. 75%E. 100%

According to Dewey’s spelling reform ideas, “fine view from the golfhouse”

should be written as:

A. Fin vew from golfhausB. Fyn vu from golfhousC. Fine viw from galfhouseD. Fine view from gulfhouseE. Fyn vew from gulfhaws

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Research today

Part Two: how we’re using clickers at Mat-Su College

Let’s look at a real presentation.

Where do questions come from?

• You can make them up…

Where do questions come from?

• You can make them up…

• Or you can “borrow” them:

–http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/infolitassessments.htm

Assessment

Qualitative evaluation responses – sometimes kind of useless.

“What is one highlight you will remember from this session?”

1. Sources.2. The dude was cool.3. Using the library website

efficiently.4. The library's more reliable

and probably more true than google's results. The library seems like there is more accurate results.

5. Use the library.6. That help on subjects are

found in the library.7. The library is the place to

go!8. Helping with references.9. Thank you for sharing, we

now know where to get useful information school or outside of school related.

10.Using the library (beard).11.Amish beard.

Let’s look at some clicker assessment data.