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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 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 presentations consisted of quiz based slides to test the students on their city using Qwizdom.

We were able to catch up with a few of the teachers involved:

Content delivery and assessment in classrooms is too often dull and impersonal. Qwizdom, on the other hand, makes teacher-student and student-student interactions much more fun and engaging. Whether you’re assessing prior knowledge, or facilitating a student-led activity, Qwizdom and its effectiveness is only limited by your imagination

Marcus Sharp, Director of Xplore, Balwyn High School,Victoria.

The benefit of Quizdom is that it turns otherwise boring, low-level recall of information into a fun and engaging activity for the students. The competitive aspect of it really tunes kids in, and there are opportunities to use the students’ responses to quiz questions for spontaneous further discussion and learning. It’s a fun way to go about the important task of checking for understanding.

Jonathan Heard, Student Learning & Wellbeing Manager, Balwyn High School,Victoria.

Posted in Education by Ed Morgan on July 5, 2010.