Educational
Technologies
Group
The Insider May 1, 2001 Vol. 12, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Page 3
http://web.mit.edu/acs/insider/spring01.pdf
"It ’s an all-too-common set of experiences – having a
question for a lecturer, but not being seen in order to
ask it, or even worse, being lost during a lecture, but
not wanting to admit it. What if there were an impersonal way to ask the instructor to repeat a point, without appearing dumb in front of the rest of the class?
That ’s the idea behind the Classroom Communicator,
a student I-campus project led by Eric Brittain, a doctoral candidate in the MIT Lab for Computer Science."
MIT Tech Talk Wednesday, December 13, 2000
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2000/dec13/icampus.html
 | Graduate student Eric Brittain is designing a system to make it easier for students in classrooms to communicate in real time with their instructors during lectures. |
| Using a small, wireless device Mr. Brittain calls the Classroom Communicator, a student will be able to signal the lecturer that he is confused or has a specific question. Putting the shoe on the other foot, an instructor could plan to send out a quick multiple-choice question over the device at a certain point in a lecture to see how well the students are following. |
Friday, June 06, 2000
Our first organizational meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 6 at 11AM in
NE43-204.
The Tech Wednesday, January 26, 2000 Vol. 120, Number 1
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N1/1icampus.1n.html
| Members of the Black Student Graduate Association submitted the proposal, “Classroom Communicator,” an idea to create a question-and-answering system in classes. Using a small handheld device, students would be able to enter the text of their questions, which would then be transmitted through a wireless network to a central computer that a lecturer could use to enhance his or her presentation. |
| Abelson said the “Classroom Communicator” is a proposal that can be easily implemented, perhaps even for lectures next fall. |