Learning of the future +++ Interactive classroom +++ classroom culture +++ auto-evaluation +++ Absolutely Intercultur...

http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/podcast/absolutely_intercultural_show_226.mp3 Have you ever thought of learning or teaching with the highest efficiency and with minimized efforts? Well in today’s show we try and justify this question by 3 back to back interviews. At first, we will listen to Hannah Peter an exchange student from Canada who talks about Classroom response system and exemplifies it with a computer application called Slido.com. Then we hear from a professor Jalal Kawash, also from Canada who has been an example of successfully using the Classroom response system for years together. Finally, we listen to Tsegaye Misikir Tashu, from Hungary who talks about a tool for Automated Essay Evaluation.
Absolutely learnable
In our first category “absolutely learnable”, Hannah Peter from Canada who is both, an exchange student from Brock University in Canada and a course assistant at RheinAhrCampus explains what Classroom Response systems are and how this can change the culture and the teaching methods in the classroom. “How we learn” is as important as “what we learn” in the classroom. Hannah explains how new technology can help give students the confidence to speak up anonymously in a big group. She suggests ideas to change the culture of teaching by giving more power to the quiet and shy students.
Absolutely teachable
In the second category “absolutely teachable” Jalal Kawash, also from Canada talks about the teacher’s perspective of making the classroom more interactive. He also warns that technology can backfire when we are not careful about how we use it in the classroom.
Absolutely automated In our final category ‘absolutely automated’ we hear from Tsegaye Misikir Tashu, from Hungary who talks about a tool for Automated Essay Evaluation which assesses, evaluates, and grades essays automatically, by measuring how close the students get to the professor’s model answers.
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The host of this show is: Dr. Laurent Borgmann
Editor: Hari Gautham S
Assistant: Marina Jimenez Martin
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