期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2013
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：Traditionally cell phones have been viewed as disruptive and an obstacle to pedagogy in the classroom. Three years ago, a survey of students led us to the conclusion that the presence of cell phones is inevitable, and rather than fight a losing battle we adopted them into our classroom pedagogy. At CEEA 2012 the authors presented the initial results of a pilot project and the preliminary results of a first year implementation. The adhoc implementation resulted in many successes in removing barriers to student – instructor interaction such as lecture hall size, high peer pressure, and low student confidence. Unfortunately this adhoc implementation was also resource intensive and had limited room for expansion. In the 2012-13 academic year the course has redesigned its use of cell phones in the classroom to take advantage of a newly developed commercial classroom engagement software called Top Hat. This new implementation has allowed the authors to achieve the benefit of the adhoc system, an innovative method of asking questions in class, while also replacing the existing classroom response system. Students are now able to use Short Messaging Service (SMS) on their cell phones to both ask questions in real time and response to word, numeric or multiple choice questions posed by the instructor. Additionally the system has extensive room for growth. The logistics of the current initiative, student and instructor impressions, and future plans for the technology in our classroom will be discussed.
