Abstract
“I had been learning using DARTS on my mobile phone while stranded at the Dallas airport, due to bad weather,” – says Erica Turner. “I was able to attend to my sick mother in the hospital while not missing my mid-term exam using DARTS on my mobile phone,” – says Terrance Ross. There are numerous testimonials from students who have benefited and enjoyed using DARTS, designed to continue education without disruptions during the pandemic. Online education took center stage during the lockdown period, and DARTS, an “Intelligent Tutoring System” combined with the functionalities of a “Student Response System” (the Clickers), was created. DARTS is an acronym from Dynamic Asynchronous Response Tracking System, which takes advantage of programmable SMS to access the Internet and cloud computing in building the ITS. Dr. Benjamin Bloom’s theory of Masterly Learning forms the basis for DARTS’ Intelligent Tutoring. which is a teaching principle that has been shown to improve 95% of students in a class from a C to an A. DARTS also shifts the ITS away from expensive, immovable desktop computers and the Internet requirement towards affordable mobile phones, which are inseparable from students. As a result, with the promise of narrowing the “Digital Divide” gap in Louisiana’s educational landscape to provide “21st-century” education. From a 500-year-old traditional teaching system, instructional technology evolves into a worldview using mobile phones and ITS, which will be demonstrated at the conference.
Presenters
Tapan SarkarIT Management Consultant /Director, IT, Business Efficiency Services LLC, Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana, United States
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KEYWORDS
ITS, SRS, MOBILE, CELL, PHONE, MASTERY LEARNING, RESPONSE SYSTEMS, FEEDBACK
