How has the SCALE-UP teaching environment been used to

explore ‘new ways of learning’ within Initial Teacher Education

(ITE) modules?Sarah Davies & Alison Hardy

Design and Technology EducationNottingham Trent University

#scaleup _ blog:http://sdsdavies.wordpress.com/

Nothing newLancaster and Read (2013)

Studio/workshop classes (often small scale) has the potential to improve students' conceptual understanding.

Beichner (2008, p.61)

students are diverse and their technological experience is more complex than the term ‘digital natives’ implies. 

Corrin, Bennet & Lockyer (2012)

Student expectations of quality video

Access

Group learning strategies

Enfield (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/user/GrahamRGibbs

ExpectationsSpecific readingAvailability of resources (on NOW)Routine with resourcesLectures linking to real contextGroup work helped clarify and extendDevelopment of ideas (in groups)Trusting relationships - intimate space- boundariesFraming of learning- think, pair, shareAccess to technology - opened up new possibilities(Lecturers) modeling the technologyInteractiveConstructive debatesRound tables openness

You could see the screen from every place/ swivel chairsThe groups could have been mixed around a bit more.. On board clear transition to check understandingPC available or windows on MacLectures available earlier on NOW

To Flip or not to Flip?

Flickr/velkr0/Ian Bogost

ReferencesBeichner, R.J., Saul, J.M., Abbott, D.S., Morse, J., Deardorff, D., Allain, R.J., Bonham, S.W., Dancy, M. and Risley, J., 2007. The student-centered activities for large enrollment undergraduate programs (SCALE-UP) project. Research-Based Reform of University Physics, 1 (1), 2-39.

Bennett, S., and Maton, K., 2010. Beyond the ‘digital natives’ debate: Towards a more nuanced understanding of students' technology experiences. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26 (5), 321-331.

Crook, C., 2012. The ‘digital native’ in context: tensions associated with importing Web 2.0 practices into the school setting. Oxford Review of Education, 38 (1), 63-80.

Enfield, J., 2013. Looking at the impact of the flipped classroom model of instruction on undergraduate multimedia students at CSUN. Techtrends, 57 (6), 14-27.

Lancaster, S.J., 2013. The flipped lecture. New Directions, 9 (1), 28-32. 

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Have you considered using the SCALE-Up room or any of the things discussed in the session today?