At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Feb 09
  

  Dameron Midgette
  • “If anything, they’re happy when someone doesn’t get it.”
  • The students “voted” with their wireless “personal response clickers” — the clickers are essential to TEAL — which transmitted the answers to a computer monitored by the professor and her assistants.

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      Dameron Midgette on 2009-02-25

      Jon Udell mentioned that this feedback is anonymous; a big boost for honesty.
• 17 Jan 09
  

  Ryan Bretag

  articles lecture

• 16 Jan 09
  

  Patrick Higgins
  • “You can say, ‘Hey, professor, I didn’t really get what you went over at this point, could you explain it to me a little more?’ ” Ms. Squiers said. “If anything, they’re happy when someone doesn’t get it.”
• 15 Jan 09
  

  Michel Bauwens

  P2P-Learning P2P

• 14 Jan 09
  

  Gene Ellis

  General

• 13 Jan 09
  

  Dave Eveland
  • One of the newer professors, Gabriella Sciolla, who arrived in 2003, was teaching a TEAL class on circuits recently. She gauged the level of understanding in the room by throwing out a series of multiple-choice questions. The students “voted” with their wireless “personal response clickers” — the clickers are essential to TEAL — which transmitted the answers to a computer monitored by the professor and her assistants.

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  Dameron Midgette on 2009-02-25
  Jon Udell mentioned that this feedback is anonymous; a big boost for honesty.

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