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Describe your approach to facilitating student learning in smart classrooms (continued).
I use a couple of different tools, I think, more than others to get them to become more active in their learning. Probably the main thing I have done is to make use of the student response systems; so they basically have these “clickers” that are built into the [ENS 280] classroom that are connected to their seats with a little Velcro strap; those are the tools that I’ve used to incorporate in what I call concept check questions. So the concept check questions are basically little review items, very similar to multiple-choice items that will be on the test about a topic that I just finished teaching.
For example, if I just finished a section on different types of memory, I might then go through and give them a multiple choice item with four choices, I ask them to pick up their clickers and basically they are given immediate feedback about whether they understand what I’ve been talking about. I’m given immediate feedback about whether they’re getting it as a whole, and so immediately (I’ve given them a minute or so to respond to the question), I get a nice little histogram of the breakdown of the responses, what percentage of them got it right, what percentage of them got it wrong. And then I can have some sense if it’s okay to continue—80-95% of them get it right—or if 30-40% of them get it right, I kind of go back a couple of slides and review whatever the concept was to make sure that they’re on board. That’s the main thing that I’ve done.
— Mark Laumakis, Psychology