Journal 5

To whom it may concern, I have come across the the Turning Point clicker product and I think it would be extremely helpful for the classroom learning environment. I would like to request funding for this product.About the technology:Multiple Choice questions are presented to students in power point format. The students make their choices on their individual clickers and the software turns the responses into an instant graph of the polls. The students instantly see the distribution of answers that were clicked in. After this, we can have a discussion about what choices we think are correct and why. So the students are able to reason with each other. The students show a great deal of enthusiasm with this technology and it works! They’re learning and they’re learning quickly! The answers are anonymous to the public so the anxiety in shy students can be eliminated. For the teacher, individual student answers can be saved and this can actually be used as a formal assessment. I can use this for higher level learning tasks by asking the students to create problems and I can collect these questions from the students by sending a Wufoo survey and turn it into a powerpoint question and answer activity with the students. This technology really increases efficiency so that the teacher can focus more on giving attention to students. Parents who have had exposure to this technology, love it! They agree that this technology is great for student learning. Overall, this technology is efficient and it increases the community. Its great for in class formative assessments. Its amazing for participation and it works. Let me know what are your thoughts. Thank you very much for you time. I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Best, Linda Lagunzad