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The Question Cycle

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In a excerpt from 'Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment: A Research-Based Pedagogy for Teaching Science with Classroom Response Technology', authors  Ian D. Beatty & William J. Gerace talk about the Question Cycle:

The Question Cycle

The four principles of TEFA are general and flexible by design, so that they may productively guide instruction in almost any circumstance. To help teachers implement the principles, TEFA specifies a particular, tangible pattern of classroom activity called the question cycle (introduced in Dufresne et al. 1996). It is an iterative cycle of question posing, answering, and discussing, aided by CRS technology, that forms a scaffold for structuring whole-class interaction. The essential phases of the cycle are:

1. Pose a question or...

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Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment

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This research paper came to my attention yesterday. In it's own words, it's a 'research-based pedagogy for teaching science with classroom response system. Click Here to Download What's interesting is the question cycle -" an iterative pattern of CRS-based questioning that can serve multiple instructional needs iterative pattern of CRS-based questioning thatcan serve multiple instructional...

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Putting the Brakes on Boredom

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Are you a Driver Training Manager tasked with CPC training? You probably don’t need me to tell you that drivers don’t like sitting in a classroom and if they can, they will sit quietly all day, nod when they have to and answer when they must. More and more Driver Training Managers are using Qwizdom's Audience Response Systems/Interactive Voting Systems in their training sessions to make their presentations more interactive, get drivers involved and to ensure they're both learning and getting the answers correct. As well as seeing the results appear live on the screen, post session results are available in...

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Qwizdom Already Working In A Big Society

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David Cameron announced this week his vision of a Big Society, a drive to empower communities. It turns out Qwizdom has long been involved in empowering communities long before the Big Society moniker. From Housing Associations to Resident Involvement Groups to Community Engagement Initiatives, Qwizdom has been used and is being used to empower communities. Tower Hamlets used Qwizdom’s Audience Response Systems to enable 800 residents to decide what they wanted to spend council money on. Close to 70 Housing Associations, such as Derby Homes, Barnet Homes & Croydon, use Qwizdom to engage with their residents, with a view to finding...

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Participatory Culture & Student Response Systems

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Have a look at this great presentation from Derek Bruff on Participatory Culture & Student Response Systems. It's at the concept that students are now co-creators rather than passive...

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Maths Busking

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How street performers used Maths to attract punters. It's not essentially a Qwizdom related thing but it's quite good. keep reading

Our Slideshare Site

Posted in Development, Education by Ed Morgan. no comments

If you haven't already, you can check out some new Qwizdom presentations over on our Slideshare site. Currently, there's a bit of everything there, all to be used alongside your Qwizdom student response systems. There are ICT quizzes, You Are The Ref Games, Maths Presentations, History, Literature and a few more beyond that. keep reading

Engaging with Communities

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The Community Development Foundation has recently published a paper entitled 'Engaging with Communities: Lessons from the frontline' The paper looks at the impact of different empowerment activities and includes details of how Qwizdom's Audience Response System was used in Tower Hamlets' participatory budgeting project. keep reading

Qwizdom to feature in Shanghai World Expo

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We've just heard from the team in Qwizdom Australia, that the Qwizdom's classroom response systems is to feature at the World Expo in Shanghai. A Victorian classroom(think of the Australian Victoria, not the British Queen) complete with the very cutting edge technology deployed in Victorian schools, is to be packed down and re-built in Shanghai as part of the Victorian displays at the World Expo, where 60,000 people a day are expected to wonder through. In preparation, 20 students from Balwyn North Secondary College and Glen Waverley Secondary College prepared presentations on their work on the local area of Melbourne to show during a media day. These...

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At the 2nd Annual Children’s University Conference

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Monday 8th December saw the Qwizdom team take part in The Children’s University’s 2nd Annual Conference. Qwizdom, the market leaders in classroom response systems, were invited to the conference to take a space in the conference’s’ Market Place’ area. The Market Place was established to bring top CU suppliers together under one roof.

Qwizdom demonstrated their classroom response system (interactive voting system) to nearly 100 conference delegates, showing them how the system is being successfully used by the Children’s University in Kent to engage and interact with students and obtain honest, timely feedback.

Qwizdom would like to thank Ger, Triinu and Guy from the...

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