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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
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Misuse of clickers raises questions about technology
B y PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff
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An assesment by Maclay Architects found that renovating would be more complicated than rebuilding.
B y KATIE RAFTER A local architecture company has recommended the rebuilding of Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, built in 1938, and the College will tear down the Ledyard Clubhouse. Director of outdoor programs Daniel Nelson said student input will be key as plans for the Lodge move forward. Some students have objected to
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the College’s decision to rebuild Ledyard without a residential space. Vermont-based Maclay Architects assessed the Lodge and concluded that renovating would be more complicated than completely rebuilding it. The company concluded that, to bring the building up to date on current building codes, its foundations, mechanical systems and many of the logs
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The Office of Pluralism and Leadership will begin searching for a new director in the winter. Since former director Alysson Satterlund left in July, Center for Gender and Student Engagement director Reese Kelly has served as OPAL’s interim director and the office has focused on filling other va-
cant positions. A search committee comprising students, staff and faculty will convene early next year, associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Agosto said. Agosto said she hopes to include feedback from students who work with CGSE in the search. Interested students will have the
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must be replaced, Nelson said. Replacement has the advantage of requiring a smaller building footprint, requiring less space, a longer life span for building, less costly maintenance and lower energy costs,” Nelson said. An effort would be made to emulate as many of the Lodge’s original features as possible, he SEE LODGE PAGE 3
On Oct. 30, religion professor Randall Balmer discovered that 43 students who had seemingly answered in-class quiz questions using hand-held clickers had not been present in his course, “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” Roughly a dozen Dartmouth courses use these clickers, which are registered to individual students, instructional designer Adrienne Gauthier said. Students use the clickers — small, hand-held devices that must be used within a range of 250 to 500 feet — to answer in-class questions and confirm attendance. Tina Rooks, chief instructional officer at Turning Technologies, which manufactures the clickers used by the College, said the clickers allow professors to involve students without requiring them to spend too much time collecting or analyzing responses. She said the technology cannot be blamed
for cheating. “The solution to cheating is never to blame the modality,” she said. “The solution is to put consequences in place.” Provost Carolyn Dever said she hopes the incident will spark conversations about Dartmouth’s academic honor principle. “Technology facilitates teaching and learning in some ways that we never anticipated before,” she said. “We can’t lose that out of a fear that students will misuse it.” Biology professor Thomas Jack said he used clickers in his “Science of Life” course from 2006 to 2013, then switched to using LectureTools — an online platform allowing students to answer in-class questions on computers or phones. He said that while he never checked, as Balmer did, to see if students were giving classmates clickers to feign attendance, he did not notice large portions of a class SEE TECHNOLOGY PAGE 5
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