Preface:
If you’ve been to college, you know that there’s a bunch of stupid little surcharges that can easily amount to a pretty sizable hole in your bank account. Textbooks can cost more than $100, food on campus can sometimes be ridiculous, but by far the most irrational item I have ever been forced to purchase was the Clicker series of items. This device is predominantly used to collect polls and survey answers in a mass population size easily while also being used to be basically the digital equivalent of a multiple choice bubble-in test. I hate it. It’s stupid. Ugh. The following review is brought to you by my scathing hate for colleges deciding to be extra.
So What Is It?
Here’s a picture.
How much can it be worth? $25? $30? $15? NO. IT’S $50. I’VE SEEN MORE COMPLEX REMOTES ON A K’NEX MODEL OF A DINOSAUR. This little grey hellspawn is something that allows for the collection of answers in a quicker and streamlined way. This would be much better if classes supplied it, MAYBE. But nope, you have to purchase it for yourself, and essentially resume the process again of buying one, registering it, and crying because of its vestigial practically among other devices that can even be found on your smartphone.
You see those little buttons? A, B, C, D, E, and power? That’s used so you can answer whatever question the professor decides to plop up onto the projector. You press one, you deliver the answer. THAT’S IT. Nothing else. It can’t do calculations, it can’t do functions, it can’t even prepare a simple rice dinner. You just spent $50 on a TV remote with only 5 channels and an off switch. Remember those scantron tests you did in school that you filled in your name, class, and proceeded to go to questions 1-50 by bubbling in the answers (1-150 if your teacher is also one to like to eat puppy souls)? DON’T WORRY, THIS HANDY DANDY SWANKY PLANKY DEVICE GETS RID OF THAT. GO GREEN.
It’s amazing to me how the older generation tells the younger generation that we rely on technology too much, yet they profit off of us, but that’s just me.
I tried my hardest to try to rationalize this device. Maybe they want to save the Earth by getting rid of paperback tests… So they keep producing more plastic devices to become obsolete the next year, you know, like an iPhone or something.
Maybe iClickers try to promote convenience?
You’re just getting rid of a paper and pencil, simple college student essentials. You’re not reinventing the wheel here bud.
Overall: 1/10.
How often do you use them?
Maybe once a week if I’m lucky.
Rate: 1/10
Convenience?
It’s like, OK. Not necessary, kinda stupid. I spent money on this.
Rate: 3/10.
Suggestions?
EVER HEARD OF KAHOOT? LITERALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE BUT CHEAPER FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE IT’S FREE. CATERS TO ANY AUDIENCE, ANSWERS ANY QUESTION, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Conclusion:
All in all, this was more so a rant than a review, which is arguably the same thing, but I absolutely despise this device. I’m using it right now in class and I can safely question all aspects of my life in which something went wrong that lead me to be using this device. It’s a capitalistic tool meant to get money from students from the smallest way. It promotes convenience, but hardly. It does the job I guess. But overall it’s just an extra charge for something unnecessary. Makes me antsy just thinking about it
Rate: 4/10
The Annoyance Test:
OH THIS CLASS NEEDS AN ICLICKER, BUT A DIFFERENT ONE? OK, COOL. AWESOME. GREAT. WHATEVER.
Rate: 10/10.
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