Turning Point Technologies
Principal (B)Land,
Our science program is continually being developed stay on top of the latest physics education research and technology. In the classroom student participation is a necessity for our educational goals. In particular, we are looking to attain a student response system for us in the classroom, during demonstrations, reviews and anticipatory sets.
If students are shy, unsure or do not know their chance of participating is greatly diminished. This student response system allows all to participate and answer questions anonymously. The teacher can program the question they can analyze student comprehension, ask specific questions that align with the NJCCCS, and you can identify with difficulties students may have. This can be utilized as a quick and effective formative assessment tool, enabling instructors to examine comprehension at specific points in the learning process.
It also brings students into the learning process, with a well crafted challenging open ended question students can debate and challenge answers discussing and exchanging thoughts and ideas. This exchange of ideas is where the learning process takes place, student to student interaction encourages students to defend, explain or cross examine their ideas and those of their peers. With the large amount of technology that is out there, this is powerful, easy to use tool that can be incorporated into our curriculum. If you can find the funding it would be greatly beneficial to our department and staff if we can acertain this technology for our classrooms.
