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By Tina Powell
Sitting in the front row were two athletic soon-to-be college graduates, eager for corporate, game face and all. A serious and focused young woman in her 20s, adjacently positioned, never stopped making eye contact with me or taking notes in the Giovatto Auditorium.
This was an event hosted by the Business Leaders of Tomorrow at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ. An active and engaged group of student leaders ready to take on the world, representing the next wave of millennial entrepreneurs, global business and finance professionals, and tech superstars defining the evolution of a connected economy.
Judging by the lay of the land, putting the cell phone away was clearly a battle I would not win during my presentation. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even try.
“How many of you remembered to bring your cell phone to class?” I asked rhetorically and saw all hands shoot up. “Excellent, let’s get started then!”
I fired up my PowerPoint, which was preloaded with text message (SMS) polls, an audience response system that uses mobile technology to display answers in real-time. It works like this:
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I ask questions
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The student’s text answers
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Real-time results are displayed on the big screen in front of the room
The next thing I knew everybody was on their phone. Text questions from students, verbal ones too, were continuously populating the screen! The one I liked the most, “What financial lessons would you teach your younger self?” Taking a moment to pause I said, “Saving for retirement and negotiating for starters. But I’ll tell you what, we’ll write about it!”
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