Qwizdom

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Qwizdom

• What can this technology do for Remus Elementary?

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Engaging Students

• Now
• Lectures
• Questions for few
• Practice with delayed feedback
• Textbooks
• Individual learning
• Related games
• Limited software

• Qwizdom
• Interactive Lessons
• Questions for all
• Practice with immediate feedback
• Quick accountability
• Video and Graphics
• Group learning
• Games applying concepts
• Variety of software

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Research shows

• Active learning creates classroom excitement.
• to be actively involved, students must engage
  in such higher-order thinking tasks as analysis,
  synthesis and evaluation. Strategies promoting
  active learning involve students in doing things
  and thinking about what they are doing.
• -Charles C. Bonwell and James A.
  Eison (Bonwell, 1991)

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• An interactive class promotes learning.
• The interactive process was designed to
  increase the students attentiveness, aid in
  individual knowledge discovery and increase
  retention of key learning points.
• -Harold M. Horowitz, Ph.D.

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QwizdomWhat is it?

• Qwizdom is a student response system composed of
• 2-way infrared remotes
• A receiver
• A computer with a projector
• Software supporting curriculum

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How does it work?
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Games

• The system provides video games supporting
  curriculum lessons.
• Games can be modified to include teacher written
  materials.

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Advantages for Students

• 100 participation
• Engaging Motivating
• Visual
• Instant feedback
• Less frustration
• Peer interaction
• Awareness of progress
• Fun with a purpose

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Advantages for Teachers

• Question variety
• Individual and Group Options
• Immediate feedback
• Data collected and graphed
• Printed reports and study guides
• Lessons can be tailored to needs
• Discussion is steered
• Authoring capabilities

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Curriculum Connections

• Health Physical Education
• Science
• Social Studies
• Language Arts
• Math
• Primary Math Concepts (grades K-3)
• number sense, measurement, addition/subtraction,
  geometry and patterning, graphing, time and
  money, fractions, multiplication and division
• Intermediate Math Concepts (grades 4 and up)

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Standards Based Curriculum

• All Qwizdom courses are designed from educational
  standards used across many states.
• Teachers can create their own material and link
  it with standards.
• Each slide is linked to standards which can be
  easily viewed.

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Who?

• Paula Johnson would
• pilot the student response system.
• identify questions and program glitches.
• introduce it to colleagues.
• measure success.
• report to staff.

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Costs(from www.qwizdom.com)
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Assesment

• Qwizdom quizzes and tests
• General curriculum assessments
• MEAP
• State Grade Level Tests
• Stanford Achievement Tests

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Resources

• Bonwell, C. C (1991, Sep). Active
  learningcreating excitement in the classroom. ,
  Retrieved Jul 31, 2004, from http//www.ntlf.com/h
  tml/lib/bib/91-9dig.htm.
• Electronic response systems. , Retrieved Jul 31,
  2004, from http//www.foundationcoalition.org.
• Horowitz, Ph.D, Harold M. "Student Response
  Systems Interactivity in a Classroom
  Environment." . 31 Jul 2004 lthttp//www.qwizdom.co
  m/software/interactivity_in_classrooms.pdfgt.
• Qwizdom, (n.d.). retrieved Jul 31, 2004, from
  Qwizdom's audience response system. Hardware and
  educational software for interactive learning.
  Web site http//www.qwizdom.com/index.html.