STEM conference 2019: The use of learning technologies to enhance classroom dialogues

In this session I will describe how I use Poll Everywhere to gather real-time student feedback on their own learning using the “Muddiest Point” metacognitive approach. Running these interactive polls over several lectures creates a classroom dialogue around topics that are interesting or challenging even in a large cohort in which students are otherwise intimidated from asking questions. Additionally it can be used to feed forward to later lectures and ask students questions which test their prior learning. I will also describe the use of Padlet to set clinical case studies for students and provide feedback to stimulate class discussion.