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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (4 children)

One year we had to buy a "clicker" to give digital answers to multiple choice questions live in class. We only used them a handful of times and then found out we couldn't resell them after the semester because it was coded to a specific student and couldn't be changed or something.

I at least appreciated the professor apologizing to us when we reported it to him and promising to not do it to another class when he found out you can't resell them, but still... I may as well have just thrown $50 in the trash and gotten the same result.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just create surveys and put a QR code in my slides. They answer the question on their phone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

QR codes were invented in 1994.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

QR codes weren't a big thing at that time and weren't integrated into the first smart phones, eventually you could download an app to use a QR code. However those weren't really in use in education settings until closer to 2015.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's been a qr code reader app available in the store since 2008. It woulda been doable.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I didn't realize they were available on blackberries and the first iPhone.

I remember there was a lot of confusion in the 90s when email was introduced to teachers and late 90s when attendance was inputted into a computer program. Getting a 60 year-old professor to not only use a smart phone, but to utilize them in a lecture when they've only used books and a blackboard for the last ~40 years of their career would be difficult. Boomers and Silent Generation had a hard enough time figuring out how to use a TV remote, let alone figuring out how to allow students to access a URL via QR code embedded into a PowerPoint presentation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

At the time, I had a qr reader on my android. You're right about the teachers though, 100%. Also, not enough students would have had smartphones to be able to actually do that.

[–] hardcoreufo 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but most people didn't have smartphones for a few more years. Making a smartphone required in 2008 would have been insane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, and Lincoln coulda faxed a samurai.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Oops didn't mean to! Sowwy I won't do it again. (Does it again)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm that sounds like a profit making opportunity for a technically inclined person.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

It was, they sold the clickers

[–] Glitterkoe 1 points 1 day ago

The Eindhoven University of Technology?