Activity aim: To get students to apply course material to a real-life scenario Materials: Printed worksheets, Plickers/Top Hat (learn more about Plickers here; learn more about Top Hat here) Time estimated: 20 minutes Prep for teacher: Set up Plicker questions, set up … Continue reading Think / Pair / Share with Clickers (Library Science)
Activity aim: Learn normalization techniques by having students set up cases that need normalizing, and their peers resolving the normalization errors. Materials: Blackboard Discussion Board discussion. Time estimated: 30 minutes Prep for teacher: Set up Discussion Board discussion. Prepare the … Continue reading Normalization Game (CIS)
Activity aim: to encourage peer teaching; to encourage synthesis; to check student progress and generate questions; to review content Materials needed: A Pro / Con / Caveat grid (students can make them) Time estimated: 15-20 minutes (depending on follow-up … Continue reading Pro, Con, Caveat
Activity aim: to generate discussion or additional questions; to check student understanding of challenging class material Materials needed: Students will need access to Power Point (or whatever program you use to design clicker questions). Time: It really depends. Students … Continue reading Student-generated Clicker Questions