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Autumn Griffith

Turning Point Student Response Systems: Making it Click for Students with Disabilities - 1 views

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  • Turning Point is an audience response
  • system, commonly referred to as “clickers”, that works inside Microsoft’s PowerPoint®. Students are able to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses via their clickers; their recorded responses are then captured and can be viewed by the instructor and / or whole class.
  • differentiated instruction
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  • allows for all students to participate equally in answering questions
  • Clickers allow them to answer without the fear of being ridiculed for incorrect answers
  • Competitive students can compete against other students for having the fastest response times.
  • Turning Point not only gives teachers instant feedback on what students are or are not learning, but this data can also be kept as ongoing records of student achievement and growth.
  • This information can be later disaggregated on Excel spreadsheets.
  • With Turning Point, teachers can insert not only question slides to gauge student’s mastery or understanding of a concept, but also input slides that ask students to convey their comfort level with newly learned material without fear of being “the only one” who didn’t understand.
  • Autumn Griffith on 10 Apr 13
     
    This article describes how TurningPoint can be used to benefit teachers and their students, especially those with disabilities. TurningPoint is an anonymous response system that teachers can use to check for understanding and allows students to feel confident in participating.
Angela Lepien

The Future of Textbooks: Ebooks in the Classroom | Ebook Publishing - 0 views

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  • Angela Lepien on 15 Apr 13
     
    There is a slow response of publishers to digitize textbooks to ebooks in order to consider the benefits and disadvantages of switching from print to digital. One big problem is how to distribute the technology equally in order to benefit students in schools.
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