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Study Finds Classroom-Response 'Clickers' Can ‘Impede Conceptual Understanding’

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Millions of students in colleges and schools around the world take classes that require clickers, small remote controls that let students buzz in answers to multiple choice questions during class. There was one exception: students who had prior knowledge of physics concepts were not thrown off by the clicker quizzes).

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Digital Devices in the Classroom Can Hinder Long-Term Retention

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The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. But don’t expect to see them on screens just yet.

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Ways to use a movie for language teaching

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Today, we have a guest post from Philip Perry, founder of Learnclick.com , an online quiz tool lots of teachers use to create and share quizzes. It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time.

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