Goal: to actively engage students outside of the classroom
(WWW) to enhance their in-class experience.
How: Students access questions over the web and submit answers on the same web page via a form.
Instructor looks at student submissions and crafts a lecture around them by:
Showing selected student responses
Spending more/less time on a topic
Primed Peer Instruction
Types:
WarmUps: pre-instruction (usually) exercises.
end of chapter conceptual questions
Physlet (small, scriptable, Java)
questions
Puzzles: topic closure, once a week
Why is JiTT potentially helpful?
Students must at least consider material before class.
Students want to know the answer!
It is harder for students to fall behind.
Students see other students' responses.
"Personalized" lectures.
Students must think conceptually before mathematically.
Solving multimedia-focused problems (Physlets) may help students adopt more
expert-like approaches.
Why is JiTT potentially NOT helpful?
Students can become frustrated with daily exercises.
Students may not feel they are getting proper feedback.
Students may still use novice problem solving approaches even though they
are ineffective.