Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

The Question Cycle

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...

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Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment

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...

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Participatory Culture & Student Response Systems

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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Our Slideshare Site

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...

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Qwizdom to feature in Shanghai World Expo

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...

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At the 2nd Annual Children’s University Conference

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...

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Using the Pick Button

The pick button on your Q5 teacher remote allows you to pick a student at random. For us, this is useful in a number of scenarios. It eliminates teacher bias: as a teacher you can’t opt for the student that you know will offer a sound explanation; or you can’t opt...

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Students drive their way to Qwizdom prize

  A team of budding enthusiasts from Bay House School, Gosport, Hampshire, have just drove their way to a class set of Qwizdom Q4 handsets by becoming the 2010 Overall Champions prize in the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge for Schools, the UK’s biggest maths challenge for schools.   In all, 92...

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More Than a Handful.

Picking up on a great article by Derek Bruff on using Classroom Response Systems in language instruction. He was picking up on a blog entry from Ellen Johnson, a PHD student at Georgetown University! He makes a few important points: Firstly, students enjoy seeing instant feedback. Secondly, Interactive questions made it difficult...

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