Thursday, June 18, 2009

Learning through response system

Audience response system is an ICT product which provides interactivity between teachers and students or audience. Audience response system promotes group activities among audience or students. It aid students in their learning through fun and interactive manner. The audience response system consists of a main teacher handset, set of student handsets, wireless receiver and presentation software. A teacher asks different types of questions like true/false, yes/no, multiple choice questions etc from his handset with help of presentation software and student respond to questions by pressing buttons on their handset. Teacher can prepare their own question slides using software or they can buy pre-prepared content from market. Teacher can do formative and summative assessment. The software displays results through interactive 3D games and charts immediately. Teacher can track individual responses, gather data for reporting and analysis of student using Audience response system. The results can be exported to various file formats like excel, PDF, HTML etc. Audience response system helps teachers to find pattern about what student has learnt and which areas he should improve to get the excellent results for students. It has been scientifically proven that the students who learn through voting system grasp even difficult concepts much more easily than the students who learn lessons using traditional technologies. It has also been noticed that the use of Audience response system helps in improving attentiveness, knowledge retention during session. Even the quiet and shyest student can give his response spontaneously with confidence through Audience response system .It can be integrated with visualiser to ask spontaneous questions.

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