Comparative Study of Pragmatic Comprehension and Linguistic Comprehension

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CLASSROOM PRESENTER – A CLASSROOM INTERACTION SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING Richard Anderson*, Ruth Anderson†, Oliver Chung*, K. M. Davis*, Peter Davis*, Craig Prince*, Valentin Razmov*, Beth Simon‡ ABSTRACT In this paper we describe Classroom Presenter, a Tablet PC-based system that facilitates active and collaborative learning in the classroom. In our setup, both the instructor and the students are equipped with tablet computers. At various points during a lecture, students are asked to solve a problem or answer a question. In response, students write their solutions on the tablets and submit them wirelessly to the instructor. The instructor can view all responses, select one or more to display to the class, and annotate responses with ink as they are being displayed. Since Fall 2004 we have piloted the system in eight Computer Science courses at the University of Washington. Here we will describe the system and our initial experiences in the classroom. 2. CONTEXT Computing technology has the potential to radically change the higher education classroom by increasing access to information and facilitating the sharing of content in real time between students and the instructor. Our goal is to develop the pedagogy and technology that would allow us to address a collection of widely recognized challenges associated with the traditional university lecture. Our specific pedagogical goals are to: • increase student engagement; • provide real time feedback to the instructor on student understanding; • integrate student materials into classroom discussions. We are targeting classrooms where students have personal computing devices that connect to the instructor’s device over a wireless network. The technology to support this, classroom wireless networks and data projectors, is becoming increasingly more widely available and much easier to use. At the same

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