Engaging the "thumb generation" with clickers

Teaching Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-245

  Immerwahr, John ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80052505302     PISSN: 01455788     EISSN: 21536619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/teachphil200932326     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ohio State University, "Clickers," http://telr.osu.edu/ clickers/(accessed January 12, 2008).
2. M. K. Smith, W. B. Wood, W. K. Adams, C. Wieman, J. K. Knight, N. Guild, and T. T. Su, "Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions," Science 2 (2009): 122-24.
3. For a review of research on clickers, see Jane Caldwell, "Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips," CBE Life Sciences Education 6 (2007): 1-8.
4. For a useful guide to getting started, including a taxonomy of clicker questions, see Derek Bruff, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Involvements (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009).
5. For a review and comparison of six different commercially available clicker systems, see Maryfran Barber and David Njus, "Clicker Evolution: Seeking Intelligent Design," CBE Life Sciences Education 6 (2007): 1-9.
6. Monash University, "Voting Mechanisms," Peer Instruction in the Humanities, http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/philosophy/peer-instruction/using/ voting.php (accessed February 17, 2009).
7. University of Michigan, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, "Student Attitudes," Teaching with Clickers, http://www.crlt.umich. edu/inst/clickerattitudes.php (accessed February 10, 2009).
8. Jim Westerman, "Motivating Generation Y in the Classroom," Teaching Excellence 18:5 (2006-07): 2.
9. William E. Cashin, "Improving Lectures," Idea Papers 14 (1985).
10. Augustine, Instructing Beginners in Faith [De catechizandi rudibus], trans. Raymond Canning (Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 2006), 100 (13.19).
11. Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison, "Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom," ASHE-Eric Higher Education Report, no. 1 (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University. 1991).
12. M. Freeman, P. Blayney, and P. Gans, "Anonymity and In-Class Learning: The Case for Electronic Response Systems," Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 22:4 (2006): 568-80.
13. Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993).
14. E. Wit, "Who wants to be . . . : The Use of a Personal Response System in Statistics Teaching," MSOR Connections 3, no. 2 (2003): 16.
15. Saint Augustine, Of Free Choice of the Will, trans. Anna S. Benjamin and L. H. Hackstaff (New York: Macmillan/Library of Liberal Arts, 1989): 8 (I.iii.20).
16. Sam Butchart, Toby Handfield, and Greg Restal, "Using Peer Instruction to Teach Philosophy, Logic, and Critical Thinking," Teaching Philosophy 32:1 (2009): 1-40.
17. Their article is based on the work they have done at Australia's Monash University, and much of their thinking is also available on a website at Monash University, "Peer Instruction in the Humanities," http://www.arts. monash.edu.au/philosophy/peer-instruction/(accessed February 16, 2009).
18. Butchart, Handfield, and Restal, "Using Peer Instruction to Teach Philosophy," 11.
19. Stephen H. Daniel, "Past Introduction to Philosophy Courses," http://philosophy .tamu.edu/~sdaniel/251regular.html (accessed December 12, 2008) (scroll to bottom of page for the link to past tests).
20. For a more detailed discussion of technical and logistical problems, and tips on vendor selection see Bruff, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, 161ff.
21. Barber and Njus, "Clicker Evolution," 2.