Blog Post 3

I like how you listed the different ways students can interact and engage with learning content. I’ve noticed that more professors are incorporating the use of iClickers in class to gauge whether everyone understands the content throughout the lecture. To be honest, it does force me to engage and understand the material as much as possible. While this is great, it also has its drawbacks. The questions tend to be very short in duration and are often graded. So, while it’s a great tool to make learning more fun and engaging, the time constraint, coupled with the fact that everyone has different learning styles and paces, can create pressure for some students to perform adequately. Educators should be more mindful in these cases and allow for other means of demonstrating understanding of the content, perhaps by asking students to write a short summary of what they understand and submit it.