21st Century Strands & Strategies
Chapter: Strands & Strategies: Deep Dive
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Handheld Response Systems
Technology helps teachers to gather,
analyze, and act upon student
feedback more efficiently through the
use of audience response system (ARS)
also referred to as Handheld Response
System. It is important to remember that
audience response systems themselves
are not as important as the effective
teaching and learning strategies that
they facilitate, which include the
following (Lemke, Coughlin, and
Riefsneider, 2009):
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Checking for real-time student understanding of content being taught
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Diagnosing student misconceptions and misunderstandings
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Displaying responses of the group to trigger discussion and reflection
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Gathering formative data to guide instruction
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Saving time in administering and scoring quizzes
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Introducing and monitoring peer learning methods
Additional Resources
Click the link to access Edutopia’s,
Click the link,
to learn more about the ePortfolio and
to access free online applications for students to use when creating an ePortfolio from
Edutopia.
Click the link,
to access Dr. Helen Barett’s ePortfolio
website. This website contains extensive research on the benefits of using ePortfolios
with students and free web2.0 tools to use to design an ePortfolio. This website also
includes extensive research on the ePortfolio in the K-12 educational setting.
Watch the video from
discuss the advantages of the
ePortfolio on student engagement and development in life-long learning. Dr. Barrett
describes the similarities and differences between social networks and the ePortfolio.
According to Dr. Barrett, the boundaries between these two processes are gradually
blurring. As we consider the potential of lifelong ePortfolios, will they resemble the
structured accountability systems that are currently being implemented in many higher
education institutions? Or are we beginning to see lifelong interactive portfolios
emerging as mash-ups in the cloud?
