Teaching with Technology

Teaching with Technology

Rhett McDanielEducational Technologist

Center for Teaching

“Technology, in and of itself, cannot transform the

teaching and learning process – only people can

do it.”Mawka and Salim, 2007, p. 71

Emerging Technologies Watch List

User-created content and personal web

Social networking

Mobile phones

Virtual worlds

Geo everything

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5612.pdf

What should I consider before using technology?

Considerations When Using Technology

Good teaching practice

Skills

Constant evaluation of value

Time

Quality Cost

Designing Backwards

Identify desired results

Determine acceptable evidence

Plan learning experiences and

instruction

Stages in the Backward Design

Process

(Wiggins & McTighe, 2005)

Students

Goals andObjectives

Bloom’sTaxonomy

Course-specificgoals & objectives

Cooperative learning

Lectures

Labs

Other experiences

Classroomassessmenttechniques

Tests

Activities

Other measures

Technology

Assessment

(Felder & Brent, 1999)

The Balancing Act

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

1. Encourages contact between student and faculty

2. Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students

3. Uses active learning techniques

4. Gives prompt feedback

5. Emphasizes time on task

6. Communicates high expectations

7. Respects diverse talents and ways of learning

Chickering & Gamson, 1987

How can learning be enhanced using

instructional technology?

Functional Categories

Category Learning Activities

Presentation Web conferencingVideo presentationAudioPowerPoint

Active LearningGames for drill & practiceReusable learning objectsSimulations/animationsClassroom Response Systems

Collaborative Learning Discussion forumsBlogsTwitter (Micro Blogs)Social BookmarkingPodcastingWikisGoogle Docs/Zoho






PowerPoint

Outline class session.

Review lecture material.

Summarize main points.

Review for an exam.

Presentation Zen

Prezi

Camtasia/Jing

Provide a video that helps students review difficult concepts.

Post your lectures online.

Explain a new process, Web page or program to the class.

Example

Examples• Adobe Connect and Adobe Presenter• Centra• Other applications

Bridges the miles and oceans and makes interacting with experts anywhere in the world.

Video Conferencing

Audio Recordings Online Audio Archives

Creating Audio Audacity

Podcasting

Video Recordings youtube.com

Creating video videospin / iMovie

Audio / Video

Example

Video Conferencing






Games for Drill and Practice

Allow for student self-assessment.

Provide interactive means for student to study course material.

Can be relatively easy for faculty members to create using free software programs.

Game Creation Software

Half-baked Software http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/

Multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises

examples

Quiahttp://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager

16 different types of online activities, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, battleship, challenge board, columns, cloze exercises, hangman, jumbled words, ordered list, patterns, picture perfect, pop-ups, rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game), and scavenger hunt

Simulations and Animations

Models a concept or idea

Useful when concepts are difficult

Strive to excite students about learning

Simulation Example

http://www.iupui.edu/~g107cwt/assets/flash/landslides/slides2.swf

http://www.iupui.edu/~g115/mod10/lecture04.html

Reusable Learning Object

A reusable learning object is a small digital component that can be selectively applied (alone or in combination with other materials) to meet individual needs for learning or performance support.

Can be used in-class to enhance learning or as supplemental material students access online.

Reusable Learning Object Example

http://www.dnai.org/b/index.htmlTechniques>transferring

Classroom Response Systems

Student Perspective Questions

• Your daughter is in an abusive relationship. Which of the following do you say to her?

• During how many days a week do you get 30 minutes of exercise?

Corly Brooke,Human Development & Family Studies,

Iowa State University

One-Best-Answer Questions

Hamlet’s lines following the death of Ophelia suggest that:

1.Hamlet really loved Ophelia, and is so distraught to learn of her death that he proposes to eat a crocodile.

2.Hamlet thinks that Laertes’s grief is mere posturing, and mocks it by exaggeration.

3.Hamlet cares little for Ophelia, but is eager to enter into a rhetorical chest-thumping competition with her brother.

Elizabeth Cullingford,

English, University of

Texas-Austin






Discussion Forums

OAK / Blackboard

Why use discussion forums?

• To share common concerns & questions, maybe anonymously• To motivate students to think about material before class• To move discussion outside of class, leaving more class time for

other tasks• To make it easier for some students to express themselves—in

writing• To build community, relationships, study groups• To give students a space to apply course material to their “real lives”• To allow students to share and comment on non-textual media

Blogs

EXAMPLES

Microblogging(Twitter)

Twitter

• Following, tweeting, and searching• Monica Rankin’s Twitter Experiment

Collaborative Tools• Google Docs• Zoho

Wikis An open, collaborative community website where anyone can

contribute.

Group space in which many individuals can be part of the

construction of knowledge and/or presentation of information.

The most popular wiki is Wikipedia.

Effective as a way to get many students to contribute

information about a particular subject.

Wikis in Plain English

http://rhettmcdaniel.wetpaint.com

Support

http://its.vanderbilt.edu/support/servicedelivery

Documents

Teaching with Technology