by one of the upper school teachers and realized how much fun it would
be to use them in the lower grades. I have used them with fifth grade,
and could use them in even lower grades, but have not gotten there yet.
Middle and upper school classes have used them easily and the students
seem to enjoy using them. The system we have is H-ITT (www.h-itt.com)
though there are others. We create a Powerpoint with questions, open it
in the program, and allow the students to "click" their answers. A graph
showing which responses were selected follows the end of the "voting"
period. Student clickers each have an identifying number. The student
scores can be calculated immediately after the lesson, but so far I have
just used it as a review tool. I think it is a great way to engage
students. Once a Powerpoint lesson is created it can be reused and
modified, so after a period of time a teacher would have questions for
most of the class content. I am unsure about the cost, but I have some
memory of the classroom set and antenna costing about $400-500. We share
among a number of classes and it seems to work out.
Jane Soloway
Lower School Technology
Polytechnic School
Pasadena, CA 91206
Michelle Ohnstad wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've seen a few pieces in the media recently about college instructors using
> classroom clickers (response systems). Do any of you use these devices in a
> middle or upper school setting? I'm just starting to research how these may
> or may not be useful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michelle
>
>
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