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Interactive Technology in Collaborative Classroom learning: Practice, Tools and

Assessment

Presented By: Md. Ataur Rahman

Introduction

• Collaborative learning is an active, problem-centred approach to teaching and learning (Ashley Deal, 2009)

• Collaborative learning has diverse meaning depending on which sector we are talking about

• Largely it is used in • Elementary school • Higher Secondary School• University• Vocational training• Professional coaching

• In short, Collaborative learning involves joint intellectual effort by groups of students who are mutually searching for meanings, understanding, or solutions (Smith and MacGregor, 1992).

Interactive technology in Collaborative Learning

• Interactive technology has been applied to collaborative learning for last couple of decades now.

• There seems to be widespread expectation that ICT, by• The very nature of the medium, provides

interactiveexperiences for learners• The reason interactive technology have been applied to this

sector are Speed; Automaticity; Capacity; Range; Provisionally; Interactivity ((DfEE 1998a)

Interactive technology in Collaborative Learning

Interactive Whiteboard

Blog

Forum

WikiTablet PC

Mobile Devices

AR tools

Aims of this research

Aims of my research is to address three questions

What are collaborative technologies? (what do they do and what different forms do they take?)

How have they been used in educational/learning contexts?

How successfully? (is there any evidence of benefit to learning?)

Why this topic?

Because there a lot of issues to address

I found the both teaching and technology interesting

I worked in this area previously

Findings (so far)

Findings from literature review has been interesting so far

• Use of technology in collaborative learning shifted the focus from teaching centred education to student-centred education (S. Kennewell et al. , 2007).

• Culture has a big role in collaborative learning and technology has be culturally adapted (Economides, 2008)

• Technology with immediate feedback mechanism are found to be more effective than others (Koile, 2006)

• Not many talk about cost of the systems.

Conclusion

It is yet a controversial topic that whether use of technology inside the classroom does help student learn better or not

To many researchers key to effective learning process still in the hand of the teacher

Moreover, some evidence of better learning has already been presented in many papers

Thank You

Reference Ashley Deal (2009), Teaching with Technology, January issue, Carnegie Mellon Press, Retrieved

from :http://www.educause.edu/search/apachesolr_search?filters=sm_cck_field_item_author:159959

DfEE. (1998a)Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum for the Use of Information and Communications Technol-ogy in Subject Teaching, Circular 4/98 Annex B. Depart-ment for Education and Employment, London.

Economides, A. A. (2008). Culture-aware collaborative learning. Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 243-267, Emerald. ISSN: 1750-497X.

Koile, K. and Singer, D. Improving Learning in CS1 via Tablet-PC-based In-Class Assessment. In Proceedings of ICER 2006 (Second International Computing Education Research Workshop), September 9-10, 2006, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Kennewell, S., Tanner, H., Jones, S. and Beauchamp, G. (2008), Analysing the use of interactive technology to implement interactive teaching. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 24: 61–73. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2007.00244.x

Smith BL, MacGregor JT (1992) “What is collaborative learning?” Goodsell AS, Maher MR, Tinto V (Eds.), Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education. National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Pennsylvania State University.