Comment Re:The question is (Score 1) 347
You're right - clickers are evil and students should raise their hands. Same with voting - lets do away with ballots and machines, and we'll just expect people to stand up for their choices. Everybody who votes for Bush, raise your hands, and keep them up until we come around to your home and count you....
Seriously, while all technology is clunky the first semester it's used, after that the bugs get worked out. A quick and efficient survey to gauge how much everyone is understanding could be done on paper, handed to a TA to grade, and then brought to the next class, or one question put on a note card everyone writes on and the professor discusses next class (I do both of these), but a computer system and clickers that would do that for me immediately would be great. My classes typically are no more than 18 students and you have to discuss and ask questions. In a larger lecture hall such as an undergrad class it would be better.
While someone suggested students vote with their feet, fewer students pay for college themselves.... Parents could vote with their checkbooks of course, but reputation of the school's degree means more than the average number of Psych101 students in the room in Freshman Fall classes.
Just my $2 Richard Niolon, Ph.D.
Seriously, while all technology is clunky the first semester it's used, after that the bugs get worked out. A quick and efficient survey to gauge how much everyone is understanding could be done on paper, handed to a TA to grade, and then brought to the next class, or one question put on a note card everyone writes on and the professor discusses next class (I do both of these), but a computer system and clickers that would do that for me immediately would be great. My classes typically are no more than 18 students and you have to discuss and ask questions. In a larger lecture hall such as an undergrad class it would be better.
While someone suggested students vote with their feet, fewer students pay for college themselves.... Parents could vote with their checkbooks of course, but reputation of the school's degree means more than the average number of Psych101 students in the room in Freshman Fall classes.
Just my $2 Richard Niolon, Ph.D.
