Category Archives: tablet technology
The Future is Now – Smart Devices will be Ubiquitous, Clickers are Dinosaurs
Present-day technology provides students with an opportunity to learn and engage in the classroom in ways that their predecessors could only imagine. The days of using a paper and pencil as primary tools to facilitate learning are long gone. The … Continue reading
The Education Shift to BYOD
Bring your own device, or BYOD, isn’t just a workplace phenomenon. It is also finding strong legs in education. The U.S. Department of Education’s 2010 Technology Plan, ‘Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology’, states that leveraging the advanced technologies … Continue reading
Blended Learning – Education’s Bricks and Clicks (Clicks and Mortar)
Blended Learning – Education’s Bricks and Clicks (Clicks and Mortar) Posted on August 1, 2012 by viaresponse The concept for this post has been swirling around in my head for more than six weeks. After a lunch with a Director over Instructional Innovation … Continue reading
## 4 HigherEd “Clicker” Terms ## Audience Response System, Personal Response System, Student Response System, and Classroom Response System, Clickers
Destined for the Dustbin of History Never have I seen a market more fragmented by terms describing/defining the same exchange/transaction between an instructor and a student. After years of market positioning and millions of dollars in term differentiation, the market … Continue reading
Instructional Design: Mobile Device Clickers/Smart Phone Clickers/Virtual Clickers, “Just In Time, Just Enough and Just for Me.” (Peters, 2007)
Weekends are a time for family and recreational reading. This weekend was no exception. I put my feet up and turned on the prequel to “March Madness” for ambient noise and began cruising around through my favorite blogs and journals … Continue reading
Instructional Delivery – The Waffle House Way
Within a week of moving to Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 1991, I distinctly remember walking into a Waffle House and hearing a new language. It was the language of “breakfast food.” I yearned to participate in the hubbub … Continue reading
Two Paradigm Shifts for the 21st Century “Classroom”
Time-Bound & Place-Bound – NO LONGER! I have noodling for several weeks on the 21st century definition of the “classroom.” Yesterday, I had lunch with a family member who also happened to do her dissertation on developmental achievement gaps and … Continue reading
Ten Powerful “Clicker” Innovations Instructors Will Rave About in 2012
With 30 years of classroom use, the “clicker” has become an integral part of Higher Ed classrooms around the world. Now, innovation is driving a second wave of adoption, with simplicity and power providing high impact in exchange for a … Continue reading
The Power of Disruption
It is not often that disruption is viewed in a positive light and this is especially true in education. But with a little alchemy, it is. Let me explain. The Internet is virtually ubiquitous in Higher Education. Classrooms now often … Continue reading