When considering how interactive clickers could be used in an English Language Arts class, my first inclinations were to use them somehow for vocabulary development. Some other ideas that come to mind are for teaching grammar rules. But they can also be used for taking surveys in response to a debate topic. Getting students’ reactions (either for it or against it) would be a great way to open up discussion, especially when talking about how characters behaved in a book.
The first video in this segment comes from a news interview that shows how a teacher in Polk county is using clickers to help her students with vocabulary development. As you’ll see, the students love every minute of it.
Clickers can also be used with younger student to develop things like spelling and reading. In the next example, we’ll see a teacher in Winston Salem, NC use clickers in conjunction with an interactive whiteboard to develop spelling and phonetic awareness. She’s using the Activote product from Promethean.