When I take a step back and look at my Wicked Problem Project, incorporating a Student Response System into my classroom and I compare it to following to the TPACK curriculum I see my problem being well supported my TPACK. TPACK takes technology and ties it closely with pedagogy and content so that a teacher will have the greatest opportunity for successful technology integration into their curriculum.
By incorporating a SRS into my lesson, I will not be changing my teaching methods all that much. I will still be delivering content and probing for questions, but I now will be probing each student numerous questions and will be able to give instant feedback to both myself and the student. This will allow me to alter what I am doing, based on class participation, to best fit a class or group of students. It will allow a student to instantly see "how am I understanding this content?" and will hopefully provoke questions from the students if they are not understanding.
By creating pre-tests and post tests that the students will use the SRS to answer I am hoping for a shift in motivation for students. Unmotivated students will now have a tangible goal. They will see where they started with their pre-tests and most will want to see their post test score higher and in turn will find some motivation to get there. For the extrinsically motivated student, I am hoping for some intrinsic motivation to arise within.
When I look at how my SRS will make my content more intellectually accessible, I find myself looking at how quickly I can get results for both the students and myself. The students will immediately know how they did on a pre or post test and it will allow me the ability to publish test grades quicker for parents and students to access online.
By being able to pose numerous questions throughout my lessons I am also able to reel those rouge day-dreamers back in and make sure they are staying connected with the content of the lesson. Plus at the conclusion of lessons I will now have to ability to ask open ended, thought provoking questions (i.e. exit slips) to further test their knowledge and the SRS allows easy, quick, and organized access to their answers that I can then use to tailor the follow days lesson accordingly.
By using a SRS I will be reaching all learnings. My SRS allows me to incorporate an array of different types of questions into my lesson. From true/false to multiple choice. From multiple answer to opinion or open ended questions. I will be asking students to read and respond, watch this clip and respond, answer this question after I present this information to you, etc. As i become more comfortable with them I would also like to incorporate the SRS into group work and collaboration as well.
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