Derek Bruff

Short Version: I’ve consolidated my two blogs (derekbruff.com and derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs) into a single blog that I’m calling Agile Learning. Look for new blog posts there, not here, and update your RSS reader accordingly. Long Version: I started blogging back in … Continue reading →

Classroom response systems have certainly made some headlines lately, probably because the start of the fall semester is a good time for news outlets to run stories on education. Since I’ve been too busy to blog about each of the … Continue reading →

At that How People Learn workshop yesterday, I shared the idea of asking clicker questions you expect a good number of students to answer incorrectly as a way to create a “time for telling” where students are ready to hear … Continue reading →

I’ve heard a few questions lately about the privacy questions of collecting student demographic data with clickers, largely as a result of the vendor i>clicker adding this feature to their system. The two specific concerns I’ve heard are the following: … Continue reading →

Here’s the Prezi from my keynote at the Clickers 2011 conference today:

The Wisdom of Crowds: Clickers, Crowdsourcing, and Educational Technology on Prezi

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of “backchannels” in education. A backchannel is a second conversation stream in a classroom or at a conference, typically … Continue reading →

I’ve giving a keynote at two conferences in early June. The first is the Clickers Conference 2011 in Houston, Texas, June 3-4, hosted by i>clicker. My talk is titled “The Wisdom of Crowds: Clickers, Crowdsourcing, and Educational Technology.” Here’s the … Continue reading →

I’ve been following the coverage of the alleged mass cheating in Harvard University’s Life Sciences 1b course. The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, ran a story about the course last week titled “LS1b Staff Investigates Cheating on Facebook.” Students in this … Continue reading →

The Educational Support Team at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (ESTSASS) at the City University London recently posted a six-minute video interview with psychology instructor Kielan Yarrow about the ways in which he teaches with clickers. I can’t … Continue reading →

This week the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is organizing a five-day “sprint” on mobile computing in higher education. Yesterday, I blogged about the use of mobile devices (cell phones, smart phones, laptops, and such) as “super clickers,” part of a … Continue reading →