Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Golub, Evan

Titel

To Point or Click, That Is the Question

Ist Teil von

• Educational technology, 2015-01, Vol.55 (1), p.39-43

Ort / Verlag

Educational Technology Publications, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Student response systems (SRS) have become quite common in today's classroom, often in the form of either "clicker" device-based systems or Internet-based systems. However, other classroom response technologies do exist and one such technology is discussed here via a case study—the laser pointer. Rather than an indirect system of displaying questions and then gathering the student responses through server-based technologies, laser pointers support students directly pointing at their answer among those presented on-screen. While the use of laser pointers rather than clicker/Internet systems provides some interesting new interactions, this case study indicates that it does lack one strong benefit—a positive impact on attendance and the benefits that improved attendance can bring to students in a class.