Kim Anderson, Judy Mutter, Amber Nelsen, Elaine Vaught, and Diane Fontdevila

"Click Into Critical Thinking" was created by Anderson, Mutter, Nelsen, Vaught and Fontdevila for the more than 885 kindergarten through third-grade students at Osceola Elementary School to improve their knowledge and critical thinking skills. By implementing the "Classroom Performance System" (CPS), which gives each student a remote device to hold allowing them to click a key to enter their response to any type of question, Anderson and her colleagues can monitor every student's response as well as assess their knowledge and skills before moving on in a lesson. This program not only actively engages all students, but it also helps the teachers develop engaging activities based on data, allows for student collaboration, and demonstrates student understanding of rigorous academic skills. The entire program leverages the game-based technology and challenges the students' rush to play outside of school. The "Click Into Critical Thinking" program's goal is to increase the students' capacity to generate higher-order questions and self assess what they are learning.