Increasing Participation with Group Work, Tablet PCs, and the SMART Board

Insights: 

Use technology to prompt students to take active roles during class

Structure group work with framing questions and specific tasks

Provide opportunities for students to share and discuss their work with the class

 

Kathryn G. Miller
Professor of Biology

Professor Miller describes in this Commentary the addition of tablet PCs into her writing-intensive Developmental Biology course. Miller points out that tablet PCs, used in conjunction with the SMART Board, allow students to take a more active role in the production of knowledge during each class.

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