Patent ID: 7720946

Claim:
A method for enhancing participation in an educational environment using networked devices, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving individual items of feedback from each plurality of individual group members regarding material being presented by a group leader utilizing the plurality of networked devices operated by the plurality of individual group group members, wherein the plurality of networked devices include wireless thin client devices; (b) aggregating the individual items of feedback received from at least two of said plurality of individual group members to produce an item of aggregated feedback; and (c) transmitting the item of aggregated feedback to the plurality of networked devices operated by the plurality of individual group members, wherein each of the individual items of feedback of the aggregated feedback is graphically displayed on each of the plurality of networked devices as an indicator on a multidimensional map having at least two axes, each of the at least two axes indicating a feedback parameter, such that the indicator indicates a degree of understanding of the material held by a corresponding one of the plurality of individual group members with respect to the feedback parameter indicated by each of the at least two axes.