Students of the millennial generation are not content with simply sitting in class and listening to a lecture. Today's students are eager to learn, but they want the learning to be on their own terms (Carlson, 2005). One way to help students control their learning is by incorporating current technology into the learning environment (Berk, 2009). One technology that has been used to encourage student engagement is the personal response system, otherwise known as the clicker system. This technology allows the student to answers questions while seeing how other students answered the question. It also allows the teacher to immediately evaluate the class, but the clicker system is costly and it is just another item that the teacher must be responsible for. Incorporating an online text message polling system into the classroom may provide a better option and would incorporate interactive technology into the classroom.
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