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arxiv: 2502.04335 · v1 · pith:SRWSKHMY · submitted 2025-01-28 · physics.ed-ph

Clickers in the '60s at a TYC?

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At an AAPT conference years ago, a person noticed my badge, exclaiming "I always wanted to work at Foothill College!" They told me that in the 1960s, Foothill had a lecture hall where students as a class could give immediate feedback to their instructors via buttons at their seats, a forerunner to modern clicker systems. Intrigued, I later did a quick Google search and discovered that Foothill had an EDEX system in a 240-person lecture hall, which featured multiple-choice buttons at each seat that were networked to a computer at the instructor's section. This fact got tucked away, and I didn't think about it again until a recent hiring interview when a candidate from an R1 commented how TYCs were at the forefront of innovations in teaching. I remembered the EDEX system, and it reignited my curiosity.

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