Educational Technology at Seven Hills

Students answer questions with Qwizdom clickers

Interactive response systems have become increasingly popular in schools over the past several years. Seven Hills has been using Qwizdom as our system to facilitate this process. The beauty of this type of technology is that it allows:

• all students to be engaged and participating
• students to compete against one another which helps with their motivation as long as it is kept positive
• instant right/wrong  feedback to students and teachers so everyone knows where their strengths and weaknesses are

We have used Qwizdom in class settings as well as larger assembly settings. Students always get a kick out of it, and the teachers who have used it love the fact that it automatically provides scores for their students. This makes it especially valuable for facilitating activities like vocabulary quizzes and reviews of factual content. Most recently we have utilized Qwizdom for our grade level “Quizbowls” which pits each of our grade level classes against each other in a battle of content mastery. Yesterday the three 5th grade classes ended in a 3-way tie where Mr. Gibbs, the host of the event, proclaimed, “Everyone is a winner!” Everyone was indeed.