Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Technology
Just push a button and get the class?
What do we want students to know?
How do we use technology to stay relevant?
“Millennials” and technology- “plugged in” generation
What does your classroom
look like?
Do we practice what we preach?
How we access information/read
has changed
Working with your LIBRARY
Conduct an audit of your holdings in Psych/Soc
Obtain a copy of all requests/purchases made by your department in the past 5 years.
Ask a Librarian to come to a department meeting to
demonstrate what resources are available for student
research/projects (credible sources?)
Invite Librarian to your class to help at beginning of research project
http://libguides.abtech.edu/behavioral
Library Roadshow
New textbook possibilities
Soomo Publishing
http://soomopublishing.com/sle/#analytics
customizable, inexpensive, interactive
Problem: plagiarism Can we solve it by setting up our classes differently?
Possibilities or a curse?
Spice it up (infusing websites into existing courses using LMS like Moodle, Bb, etc)
“Old” fashion in new ways (use of film, group projects, and presentations)
Why?Opportunity for critical thinking (new media literacies)
Higher on Bloom’s taxonomy (apply, create, collaborate)
Global possibilities
It’s fun to add fresh content, stay relevant
Not just a FAD
Publisher websites
Don’t forget these links- easiest. Need login to Instructor Resources, can point students there (to Student site) or create link in LMS to discuss/summarize/connect to chapter
http://ewhighered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078111641/student_view0/web_links.html
ASA and APA on course homepage
American Sociological Association
American Psychological Association
Connect the discipline info to occupations
American Community Survey (ACS)- infuse research gathering into a project (where to get data):
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t
http://www.census.gov/people/
Topics include: Well-being, families, computer use
Census.gov
Steering students to
resources that make them THINKCharlie Rose: The Brain Series: http://www.charlierose.com/view/collection/10702
PBS “Inside the Teenage Brain” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/
Psychology Tests on BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml
Harvard Study of Adult Development: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/7439/
Open Yale Courses : http://oyc.yale.edu/
TED talks:http://www.ted.com/
they use it outside of our classrooms, so...
Add photo to a paper (i.e. homelessness)
Hiller Spires of NC State advocates use of “grassroots video” for GROUP projects:
to “construct and create”, not passive
inquiry learning kits: flip camera with built-in USB, headphones, 1GB flash drive
Rethinking the Presentation
www.prezi.com (beyond PPT)
Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/
Creating short films: http://www.cybersmartafrica.org/storytelling/gallery/ use campus IT department to help, can post these on course page, campus Youtube.com account, share with class
Using FilmStudents like watching movies, can be a way to create links to our studies
Can be used for Discussion Board post or applied project/assignment
SOC: http://sociologythroughdocumentaryfilm.pbworks.com/w/page/17194965/FrontPage
PSYCH: http://www.psychmovies.com/ (Movie Lists and Instructor Resources)
Snag Films http://www.snagfilms.com
http://learning.snagfilms.com/film/category/college
PBS.org Frontline (free! use Teacher Center tab) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ Topics for educators (sights in Singapore, music in Iceland):http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/educators/culture.html
Podcasts• iTunes U:
• http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
• Audacity (free program, messages to Online
students)
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• This American Life: search by topic:
• http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast
Creating connections
By directing students to particular websites, and exposing them to discipline specific information from sources that may be new to them, we can model good online research practices and media literacy
It can also prevent plagiarism if we keep changing the assignments and ask specific questions related to our chapters
www.wikispaces.com
Japanusacollaboration
global connections: do not have to be expensive
Skype- if a student/friend/colleague travels abroad
New possibilities for instruction and assessment
Learning THROUGH technology, not just FROM technology
Direct students to specific websites, helping them make connections between our courses and contemporary debates or issues
Use technology to create and collaborate (students) and spice up online and F2F classes (instructors)
Share with colleagues- campus/department sessions
Library! What do you have? Use it!
