Five Ways to Increase Student Engagement with Wireless Presentation

Studies of student engagement and the proven effectiveness of modern teaching techniques like ‘The Fundamental Five’ are providing educators with new insight on how to engage with students to be more effective. That’s not to say that classroom dynamics are completely understood. Studies continue to recognize that the topic is complex and influenced by many factors, but call out the following three major elements of engagement:

● Behavioral engagement – this is about students’ participation in their education
● Emotional engagement – this includes students’ sense of belonging or connectedness to their class and the school
● Cognitive engagement – students’ investment in their learning and motivation

Wireless displays and wireless content sharing can be invaluable in addressing each of these elements in the modern classroom by putting teachers in the ‘Power Zone’, one of the key practices featured prominently in Jayne Ellspermann’s books about ‘The Fundamental Five’; five high-yield instructional practices that every teacher can use to increase student performance.

So, what exactly is the ‘Power Zone’ and how can wireless presentation get you there? Teaching from the ‘Power Zone’ is really what most teachers want to do: Teach or monitor in close proximity to a single student, a small group of students, or the entire classroom of students. This is where wireless display technology and software tools developed for the classroom like ScreenBeam’s 1000 EDU Gen 2 series wireless devices can be most effective. By allowing teachers to move away from their traditional space at the front of the classroom and to move more freely around the classroom, wireless display offer teachers a myriad of new opportunities to engage more directly with students and to do so in more dynamic and powerful ways. This increased engagement dramatically increases possibilities for student participation and allows teachers to connect with more students, all while creating classroom experiences that can motivate the entire class. More importantly, experiences facilitated with wireless screen sharing aim to reach all students, even those who might find themselves in the back row. By impacting all three major elements of engagement, wireless display technology delivered by devices like ScreenBeam’s 1000 EDU Gen 2 series put teachers where they can be most effective: closer to students and in the ‘Power Zone’.

Five simple ideas to increase student engagement:

1. Break the Plane – Move away from the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ teaching model where teachers are positioned at the front of the room tethered to a whiteboard or interactive flat panel display. Project either lessons, student work, or both, from a tablet anywhere in the room. In a word, move! Take advantage of wireless display technology that invites teachers to utilize the entire classroom space do so while interacting with the content being displayed. Moving closer to students makes teaching less of a lecture and more of an experience.
2. Foster Collaboration – Engage students with opportunities to work together to solve a math problem or create a mission statement. Or, show an image on the whiteboard for students to annotate. Encourage interaction and discussion between classmates. This makes the experience of contributing and expressing one’s ideas less stressful and can build confidence in an overly cautious student.
3. Let Students “Drive”– Challenge students to display their work for the class or invite them to present a project or show the class how they solved a math problem. Putting students in a teacher’s role–letting them “take the reins” without pressure–both increases self-confidence and reinforces learning. Techniques like wireless mirroring can allow students to work from their seat and avoid the anxiety that so often comes with presenting at the front of the room.
4. Monitor Effectively – Move to better positions to see who is doing what, who is on track, and who might need some additional direction. Plus, with closer proximity to the student, teachers can leverage wireless display technology to engage where it is most important–with the student directly. Students feel that close, helpful connection and engage on a new level.
5. Challenge Creativity – Engage the imagination by inviting students to create a podcast, or a model business, a website idea, or a how-to video to share with the class. Encourage students to get creative and use the classroom technology as a vehicle for their work.

Get Close with ScreenBeam 1000 EDU Gen 2

The affordable ScreenBeam 1000 EDU Gen 2 next-generation classroom technology gets teachers closer to students and increases engagement with wireless content sharing from any device. There’s even an included whiteboard application. Designed with the classroom in mind, smart and easy wireless presentation makes it easy for teachers and students to share interactive and collaborative classroom experiences that promote engagement and inspire learning.

Where student device management is important, Orchestrate by ScreenBeam redefines the modern classroom by supporting untethered teaching through wireless content sharing along with the orchestration of up to 50 student Windows and Chromebook devices. With Orchestrate, teachers can easily “snip and share” content with the class and even send and open websites on student devices instantly.

Orchestrate software is designed to be intuitive and facilitates switching between wireless screen sharing or extended desktop and the orchestration and management interfaces. Plus, an all-new hardware design of ScreenBeam’s 1000 EDU Gen 2 series wireless presentation devices won’t tax machine resources on the teacher’s laptop or congest the school’ network. Plus, there is an intuitive user interface to connect other technology likely to be found in modern learning spaces.

The impact of new teaching practices that increase engagement can’t be overstated. This makes your choice of wireless display technology to support teaching from the “Power Zone” one of your most important technology decisions. Past installing ScreenBeam 1000 EDU Gen 2 wireless receivers in your learning spaces, consider adding the supporting cloud-based Orchestrate to supercharge classrooms with technology that puts the teacher-student connection first.

ScreenBeam technology empowers teachers to find and teach from the most effective positions in the classroom which not only increases engagement and inspires collaboration but does so in new and dynamic ways that grab and hold the students’ attention. It all begins with untethering teachers with wireless display technology and goes all the way to providing a complete solution to orchestrate a powerful set of educational tools that can move teachers to where they want to be: in the “Power Zone”.

About ScreenBeam

Based in San Jose, CA, USA, ScreenBeam manufactures award-winning wireless content-sharing and collaboration solutions that enable collaboration in work and learning spaces, including hybrid environments. ScreenBeam solutions, including wireless display and wireless presentation for education, are designed to be easy to deploy, use, and maintain; increase engagement; and drive positive outcomes. ScreenBeam launched the first Wi-Fi-certified wireless display receiver to the market and developed the world’s first enterprise-class Miracast™ receiver for dense enterprise environments. ScreenBeam is the only co-engineering partner for Microsoft’s implementation of Miracast in Microsoft Windows operating systems and