Enhancing Student Success:Teaching Well With Technology

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October 23, 2009

Poll

Participation, respond by: Sending a text message to 99503 (in place of mobile #). Tweeting to @poll Browsing to http://poll4.com In the message, tweet or answer box enter the 5-number code

corresponding to your choice.

Whitmore Example

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The Silver Bullet?Clark (1983) and Mazur (2009) on Technology

“…, if teachers merely add on technology to ineffective instructional methods (e.g., electrifying the lecture hall), there will be no improvement in student learning.”Clark, R.E. (1983). Reconsidering Research on Learning from Media, Review of Educational Research,Vol. 53, No. 4, Pp. 445-459.

“I often meet people who tell me they have implemented this “clicker method” in their classes, viewing my approach as simply a technological innovation. However, it is not the technology but the pedagogy that matters (5).”

Mazur, E. (2009). Farewell, Lecture?, Science, 323, 50-51.http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/email/reprintrequest.php?r=635

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Teaching Well With Technology

Articulate learning goals Identify pedagogical strategies/learning activities Consider best uses of time and space Consider technologies that will enhance learning Plan in and out of class activities Evaluate results

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Why Articulate Student Learning Goals? Learning Goals:

Identify the most important outcomes for the course Keep the course focused Form the basis for designing assessments/assignments. Add transparency for the students

Improves student performance Decrease time spent responding to student work

Connect to the Broader (Program/Department/University) Goals?

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RememberUnderstand

AnalyzeApply

EvaluateCreate

A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching & Assessing:The Cognitive Process Dimension

From A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching & Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education Objectives. Anderson & Krathwohl (Eds.)

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Taxonomy of Significant Learning

Learning How to Learn

FoundationalKnowledge

Caring Application

Human Dimension Integration

• Becoming a better student• Inquiring about a subject• Self-directing learners

Understanding and Remembering:• Information• Ideas

Develooping new:• Feelings• Interests• Values

• Skills• Thinking: Critical, creative and practical • Managing projects

Learning about:• Oneself• Others

Connecting:• Ideas• People• Realms of Life

From Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. L. Dee Fink

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Pedagogical Strategies: Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering and Gamson)

1. encourages contact between students and faculty,2. develops reciprocity and cooperation among students,3. encourages active learning,4. gives prompt feedback,5. emphasizes time on task,6. communicates high expectations, and7. respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

Orbital example

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Current Support for Student Centered/Active Learning

“Data obtained in my class and in classes of colleagues worldwide, in a wide range of academic settings and a wide range of disciplines, show that learning gains nearly triplewith an approach that focuses on the student and on interactive learning (7, 8).”

Mazur, E. (2009). Farewell, Lecture?, Science, 323, 50-51.

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Best Use of Time and Space

Student Accountability is the Key!

The responsibility for gathering information now rests squarely on the shoulders of the students. They must read material before coming to class, so that class time can be devoted to discussions, peer interactions, and time to assimilate and think (4). Instead of teaching by telling, I am teaching by questioning.

Mazur, E. (2009). Farewell, Lecture?, Science, 323, 50-51.

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Consider Technologies That Will Enhance Learning

Who will use the technology? What strategies will the technology support/enhance? Is it feasible?

Infrastructure/support for you Accessibility/support for students

Botting Example – student films

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Examples of the impact of our work

Barry Keating – Finance Market Simulation

Todd Whitmore – Theology – Rich, Poor, War Anonymous polling to generate open discussion

Eileen Botting – Political Science – Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Alternative forms of expression and assessment