Technology in classrooms has been growing exponentially. One of the first technological devices used in classrooms was calculators. That was considered evolutionary in its time. Only a few people could even afford them. Today, technology has been more and more incorporated into classrooms. The one the students of Thomas More are most familiar with is the smart board. This is a whiteboard that is connected to you computer. Although, this is relatively new technology to Thomas More, other universities are far more advanced.
The University of Cincinnati is a good example of the technological advances. For example, in the larger classes, they use clickers. These clickers track attendence and also are used to take quizzes. Each clicker corresponds to a particular student. The clicker is used for multiple choice quizzes and each student locks in there answer much like a game show. The newest thing they are experimenting with is performing labs for science online. All the data, materials and instruments are online. The student then can perform their experiment from their laptops. Pretty amazing if you think about it.
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We actually had a set of the clickers at my high school for AP chemistry and AP biology classes. They really are neat to have in the classroom. They make using time efficiently a lot easier than it would be without them, that's for sure.
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