Classroom+Response+System



What makes a good tool .... ideas to think about .... •Engaging to students and teachers •User friendly, easy to use •Easy to identify the benefit •Free … or low cost •Multi purpose •Across platforms, “mobile” •Easy to monitor student participation •Serves a purpose … easy to integrate to curriculum •Extends the learning … the tool is not the learning • Extends the skill … the tool is not the skill

To Click or not to Click ...Is that a Text Dependent Question?
Text Dependent Questions
 * A text-dependent question forces students to go back to the text.
 * It is a question they could not answer if they did not read, and even if they did read,
 * Students will still need to refer back to the text to answer the question

Evidence
 * Stude[[image:mnli12/evidence.jpg width="152" height="111" align="left"]]nts cite specific evidence when offering an oral or written interpretation of a text.
 * They use relevant evidence when supporting their own points in writing and speaking,
 * making their reasoning clear to the reader or listener, and they constructively evaluate others’ use of evidence.

= Six Shifts in ELA/Literacy =


 * Think about your practice and classroom … Would you like to find a way to … **


 * Address Text Dependent Questions
 * Address Evidence


 * And at the same time … **[[image:mnli12/ClassClickers.jpg width="366" height="248" align="right"]]
 * Improve student learning
 * Improve Teacher Effectiveness
 * Reduce Paperwork


 * Have you thought about a Student Response System? **

A classroom response system (sometimes called a personal response system, student response system, or audience response system) is a set of hardware and software that facilitates teaching activities such as the following. •A teacher poses a multiple-choice question to his or her students via an overhead or computer projector. •Each student submits an answer to the question using a handheld transmitter (a “clicker”) that beams a radio-frequency signal to a receiver attached to the teacher’s computer.

•Software on the teacher’s computer collects the students’ answers and produces a bar chart showing how many students chose each of the answer choices.

•The teacher makes “on the fly” choices in response to the bar chart by, for example, leading students in a discussion of the merits of each answer choice or asking students to discuss the question in small groups.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/technology/clickers/#what

Socrative Video

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%;"> Brought Your Own Device ?? Do you have a clicker with you? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%;">Then .... you have a personal computing device with you!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;"> Student Response System: Socrative

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">Web based: [|http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">Android Device: FREE Socrative Student App

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">“I”Device: FREE Student Clicker- SocrativeApp

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">Let's Try This Out .... <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 180%;">You are the student. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">Room: Ams17

** Have you registered yet? **   Let's create a Quiz .....  = =

=Student Response Consideration ......= Know your purpose when designing questions … –Individual v. group activities –Formative v. summative assessments

•Grading –Does it count ??? –How does it count ???

•Devices … BYOD, school cart, clickers($$$)

•Dry runs … practice with colleagues/students Learning curve … first year “investment”

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 240%;">Can you think of a way you might use this tool in your classroom?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Exit Activity ..... Room Ams17 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Problem : Do you think you could use this tool in your classroom.

= Resources = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 210%;">[|Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips]Jane E. Caldwell <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 210%;">[|Space Race +][|google][| form + student created][|q’s][| + tech device = Great in-class review][|Benjamin][|Berte] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 210%;">[|One IPAD in the Classroom? Top 10 Apps] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 210%;">[|How Text-Dependent, Discipline-Specific Questions Provide Students Access to Complex Text Required in the Common] [|Core State Standards Related Resources Thomasina Piercy, Ph.D.] [|Student Response Research]