Speaker: Chad Topaz, Macalester College

Title: Assessing real-time learning with clickers and blogs

Abstract: Personal response system (PRS) clickers are small, handheld electronic devices that students can use to respond to instructor-posed questions in class. Blogs are online diaries that students can use to chronicle their learning outside of the classroom. I will discuss some pedagogical and technological aspects of using clickers and blogs to support student learning. I will also connect clicker and blog pedagogy to two learning science frameworks, namely the four "centrisms" of Bransford et al., and the revision of Bloom's taxonomy by Anderson and Krathwohl.

Place: Science and Technology Building I, Room 242

Refreshments will be served before the talk at 3:00 p.m. in Room 222.

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