The school of nursing is researching applicable devices to use in classrooms to facilitate learning. Which approach should be considered?
A) Personal digital assistants
B) Cell phones
C) Audience response systems (ARS)
D) Laptop computers
C) Audience response systems (ARS)
Explanation: A) Personal digital assistants, or PDAs, are outdated.
B) Smartphone technology has become increasingly more sophisticated; however, instructors are using clickers, or audience response systems, to identify student knowledge base during classroom activities.
C) Audience response systems are increasingly being deployed to facilitate learning through the use of handheld transmitters. This hardware and software makes use of a "clicker" that beams information showing the responses from a group of students to specific, real-time questions projected overhead to a receiver on the instructor's computer, which transforms the data into a chart detailing the responses. Some ARS systems work using other mobile devices, such as student cell phones, tablets, or laptops.
D) Laptops are considered part of the learning process. However, clickers, or audience response systems, are more interactive in a classroom and help the instructor to identify successful learning.
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