A Turning Point

Although I unfortunately couldn’t make it to this presentation done by the other class, I found information on Turning Point from my peers blogs and through my own research. It looks to me like Turning Point can be a great classroom resource, acting as an immediate audience response system. From what I have discovered, I found that Turning Point can be added to Microsoft PowerPoint and as a teacher, you can pose questions to the students and allow them to give you immediate feedback through a clicker. Giving each student a clicker card, they are able to make choices regarding a question. That is; they can choose choice one, choice two, choice three, etc. Then the teacher can immediately download this information to the computer. From this, the teacher can gain certain information about the students learning and using clickers in the classroom also makes students feel more comfortable with their responses and their ideas. Using this technology, teachers can make it anonymous or specific to particular students. This makes the learning more meaningful and appropriate.

I like how this technology is portable, giving teachers the option to use clickers with a variety of students in different situations. The technology is very easy to implement in the classroom (besides the costly expense) and I believe it will engage and motivate students to ‘want to learn’. I really hope to learn more about this innovation in the future, as I consider it to be a valuable educational resource and hopefully one day I will get the option to use this in my classroom.