On 15 December 2008 I alerted subscribers of the above addressed
discussion lists to an article "The Case for Classroom Clickers - A
Response to Bugeja" [Hake (2008)]. That essay took issue with Michael
Bugeja's (2008a) claim that clickers (a) were introduced into
education by manufacturers, and (b) are nearly useless in education.
Other reactions to Bugeja (2008a) now appear as letters to the editor
in "A 'Strong Case' Exists for Classroom Clickers" [Scriven,
Chasteen, & Duncan (2009)], free to all for a few days at
<http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=HpkXqHnFnDVV8q25sJSXQGF2fFfrtphr>
or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/b4gpgg>.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<[email protected]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>
REFERENCES
Bugeja, M. 2005. "Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a
Technological Age." Oxford University Press. Amazon.com information
at <http://tinyurl.com/5nq25q>. See also the book's website at
<http://www.interpersonal-divide.org/>.
Bugeja, M. 2008a. "Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology,"
Chronicle of Higher Education 55(15), Page A31, 5 December; online at
<http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i15/15a03101.htm>; see also ancillary
material at Bugeja (2008b). For a previous report in a similar vein
see Bugeja (2008c). For Bugeja's dim view of the "technological age"
see Bugeja (2005); for a brighter view see e.g., Nielsen (2008).
Bugeja, M. 2008b "FACT CHECK: "Classroom Clickers and the Cost of
Technology," online at
<http://www.interpersonal-divide.org/clickers.pdf> (28 kB)
Bugeja, M. 2008c. "Could You Be a Hoopla-dite? Too many colleges fail
to hold technology to academic standards of cost analysis and
assessment," Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 September; online at
<http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/09/2008091201c.htm>.
Hake, R.R. 2008. "The Case for Classroom Clickers - A Response to
Bugeja"; online at
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/CaseForClickersJ.pdf> (716 kB),
as ref. 56 at
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>, and at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2008/12/case-for-classroom-clickers-response-to.html>.
Nielsen, M. 2008. "The Future of Science: Building a Better
Collective Memory," APS News, 17(10). The full version appears on
Nielsen's blog at <http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448>. Note the
extensive exchange of opinions following Nielsen's blog article.
Scriven, M., S. Chasteen, & D. Duncan. 2009. "A 'Strong Case' Exists
for Classroom Clickers," letters to the editor, Chronicle of Higher
Education 55(21): page A30, 30 January; online free to
non-subscribers for a few days at
<http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=HpkXqHnFnDVV8q25sJSXQGF2fFfrtphr>,
or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/b4gpgg>; always available to
Chronicle subscribers at
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i21/21a03002.htm>. I thank Michael
Scriven for alerting me to these letters.
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