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Using Clickers for Active Learning and Critical Thinking

Josepha Kurdziel, (josephak@umich.edu [1]) from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, LSA, demonstrated and discussed her use of the wireless classroom response systems to involve students in active learning and critical thinking in large lectures at the CRLT IT Luncheon on Friday February 4, 2005.

You can see her PowerPoint presentation (in note form) and watch a preview, and/or an edited version of the presentation.

PowerPoint notes - .pdf [2] (48 KB)
Preview of Presentation- QuickTime.mov [3] (3.7 MB - 1.51 minutes)
IT Luncheon Presentation - QuickTime.mov [4] (74.3 MB - 33.21 minutes)

Get QuickTime Player [5]

Academic Area: 
Science, Technology, and Math
Discipline: 
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Course Type: 
Lecture
Faculty Name: 
Josepha Kurdziel
Pedagogical Goal: 
Answering student questions
Increasing engagement and/or interactivity
Administering tests and quizzes
Technology Tool: 
Personal Response System (Clickers)
Technology Type: 
Personal Response System
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Source URL: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/node/686

Links:
[1] mailto:josephak@umich.edu
[2] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/../faculty/JoKurdziel02-05.pdf
[3] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/Kurdziel/kurdziel_prev.mov
[4] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/Kurdziel/kurdziel.mov
[5] http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
[6] http://www.crlt.umich.edu/category/tags/faculty-using-technology