Shane G. McKay

McKay's program will incorporate handheld technology into teaching at East Central High School. "Using Technology Formatively in Informal Ways" empowers teachers to informally assess students' content comprehension in real time. In McKay's program students are given a remote control response system that allows them to anonymously answer questions posed in teacher created presentations. Empowered with this technology, students become more engaged and are free to answer questions without fear of criticism from classmates. Teachers are afforded the opportunity to immediately administer interactive quizzes or re-teach components of material by having students answer their own questions by thinking and drawing out the answers. This program actively brings the students into the lecture and makes them active participants in the learning process. McKay lives in Universal City.