Students spend up to $50 per new iClicker device at the Cornell Store and a considerable price of around $35 for used ones. The cost of iClickers unnecessarily and disproportionately burdens low-income students, forcing students to choose between a portion of their grade and the price of an iClicker. This mass stock of iClickers only further exemplifies the significant burden that the price of iClickers imposes across the student body. Given the distributional burden of iClickers, Cornell lecture halls should seek a poll-taking system that exists on our already-owned devices: our phones and our laptops. If the unnecessary expense of iClickers isn’t enough, web-based polling apps such as Poll Everywhere harness a much vaster array of capabilities than the iClicker.

Source: Daily Sun April 09, 2019 01:18 UTC