Hardware
Renaissance Learning began providing educational hardware with the acquisition of AlphaSmart in 2005. The company's 2Know! Classroom Response System is intended to aid classroom participation and assessment. Each student uses a wireless handheld device with a small LCD screen and a number of buttons, including a phone-type number pad, ABCDE voting buttons, True/False buttons, and other buttons. Using wireless technology, teachers can post questions and receive student responses without using paper-and-pencil quizzes or raise-your-hand techniques. The system can use built-in assessments or teacher-made assessments. The hardware also comes with software to help receiving and scoring information from the 2Know!.
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