Clickers

"Classroom Response Systems ('Clickers')" (webpage) introduces formal classroom response systems (CRSs) as well as "strategies for using clickers in your teaching."

Topics of relevance for Lakehead include the following:

• What Is a CRS?

• Teaching with a CRS

• Why Use a CRS?

• Challenges in Using a CRS

NOTE: Most of the advantages and uses of a formal and costly CRS can be gained from free or free-to-student services such as the following:

A. "Tools to Facilitate In-Class Polling" (web page) points out that classroom response systems or "[i]n-class polling by any means (clickers, online polling programs, Google forms, or even colored pieces of paper)" has several benefits:

• It "is a straight-forward way for instructors to gather real-time feedback."

• It helps "identify gaps in preparation or understanding."

• It allows instructors to "flexibly adjust instruction." 

1. "Low- or No-tech" Options

a. "Raise Your Hand"

b. "Choral Response"