Going Beyond Classroom Clickers

By DAVID SHIEH

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Derek Bruff, whose new book on classroom "clickers" talks about teaching dos and don'ts for student-response systems.

Clicker technology allows students to respond to questions during class using a wireless, handheld device. Instructors can then immediately view and display the results, often in the form of a poll. Mr. Bruff, an assistant director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching, wrote Teaching With Classroom Response Systems (Jossey-Bass,