{"id":7163,"date":"2018-02-09T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:04","slug":"the-huh-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/the-huh-button\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;huh?&#8217; button"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7167\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7167\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-e1518534714285.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Samson demonstrating the Echo360 platform in class. (Echo360)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Perry Samson<\/strong>, a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, has been teaching at U-M for 38 years. In his early teaching years, Samson thought that getting through a lecture without students asking many questions was a sign of a job well done.\u00a0Samson says he has since come to realize that silence in class often indicates student confusion rather than understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a group of students, Samson co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/confusion-button-alerts-professors-struggling-students\">LectureTools, which\u00a0was\u00a0acquired\u00a0by technology company Echo360<\/a> in 2012. The platform lets\u00a0students give feedback to instructors in real time using their phones, laptops, or tablets.\u00a0They can ask and answer questions, make notes, and use an alert to signal when they are confused.\u00a0This information then shapes how instructors can approach the next class\u2014whether they need to review material or perhaps explain it in a different way. Samson said that the platform allows him to experiment with his teaching to figure out what works and what doesn\u2019t. \u201cIt helps me identify when I\u2019m being boring, when I\u2019m going too fast. It\u2019s changed the way I teach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Samson, a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, has been teaching at U-M for 38 years. In his early teaching years, Samson thought that getting through a lecture without students asking many questions was a sign of a job well done.\u00a0Samson says he has since come to realize that silence in class often indicates student\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/the-huh-button\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-e1518534714285.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-e1518534714285.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-e1518534714285.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_9937-e1518534714285.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Perry Samson, a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, has been teaching at U-M for 38 years. 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