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ITUE symposium to focus on ’clickers’
1:08 p.m., Aug. 8, 2006--“Emerging Technologies for Student Engagement,” a symposium focusing on the use of personal response systems, or clickers, to enhance student engagement in large lecture hall settings, is set for Friday, Sept. 29. Earlier this summer, UD signed an agreement with GTCO CalComp to make its clicker--a wireless keypad device used with a receiver--the personal response system officially supported at UD. The ultimate goal of phasing in the clickers is to enhance student engagement, learning and understanding in large classroom settings. The symposium will feature the two guest speakers, Neil Carlson, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Douglas Duncan, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Colorado. Carlson's research focuses on the role of the limbic system in learning and species-typical behavior. Duncan, during his tenure in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, helped begin a trend of modernizing planetariums. He also served as national education coordinator for the American Astronomical Society, which represents the 6,000 professional astronomers in the U.S. The symposium is sponsored by Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Longman, UD's Department of Psychology, the College of Arts and Sciences, IT-User Services and other campus units. Thomas DiLorenzo, chairperson of the Department of Psychology, was key in organizing the symposium. |
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