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FTLAWinter-Spring 2013

Group Project Presentedby:

Cheryl PearsonKristina Yegoryan

Wissam Barakat


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New Classrooms: Technological

Intervention?

Institutional parameters/constraints

Department expectations

Instructors aspirations Students understanding and perceptions

BRIDGING THE GAP!/?


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OUR EXPERIMENTSEnglish(College English and Development English courses) Course Website Face book Closed Group

Flipped Lessons/Ted Speeches

PowerPoint Presentations

You tube Videos

Writing Center Workshops Wordpress Blog

Ted Speeches, You tube VideosMath(Calculus) Face book Closed Group

Flipped Lessons/ Ted Speeches

Mind Maps

You tube VideosHealth Sciences (Respiratory Therapy Lab) Face book Closed Group


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Experimental Incarnation

English Courses:Course Websites: http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/

http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG101LAVCsp13/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG28LAVCsp13/

Flipped Ted Speeches: http://www.ted.com/profiles/1659268/ted_ed

PowerPoint: http://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.html

Also in the course websites under the link: PowerPoint

Writing Center Workshops:Blog: http://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/

Math (Calculus)Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VM2662013/
http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG101LAVCsp13/https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG28LAVCsp13/http://www.ted.com/profiles/1659268/ted_edhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/VM2662013/http://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/VM2662013/https://www.facebook.com/groups/VM2662013/http://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/http://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://kristinatyegoryan.weebly.com/powerpoints-for-my-courses.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/profiles/1659268/ted_edhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG28LAVCsp13/https://www.facebook.com/groups/ENG101LAVCsp13/http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/


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ENGLISH 101 and 28 Course Websites:http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/ http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/
http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/http://english28lavcsp13.weebly.com/http://english101lavcsp13.weebly.com/


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Writing Center Workshops BLOGhttp://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/ AND English Course Facebook
http://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/http://lavcwritingcenter.wordpress.com/


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Activities on Math FacebookThis is your social milieu, dont drown in it

Discussion of grading criteria and distribution (followed byanimation)

Flipped Ted Ed video, followed by Fractal Art

Mind maps posted by students

Special Assignments (be the first to post, others challenge) Follow ups on class discussions, whether tangents or mathematical

(e.g., Kiplings poetry)

Videos pertaining to successful mathematicians and scientists:contemporary, women, technology (3D printing); and responses tovideos


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Activities on Math Facebook

Difficult exercises with posted solutions

(unsolicited)

Students posting (unsolicited) solutions to midterm problems,taking pride, seeking redemption, on-going

Challenge problems in collaboration with another faculty (after-class late sessions)

Sharing pirated and non-pirated links to mathematics, etcresources

Mathematics in art: Escher; in physics: Feynman; in Ecology ...


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Activities on Math Facebook

Posting of personal essays: Thinking about Thinking (before

and after edit at Writing Center)

Posting of project proposals for peer review or suggestions

Videos of Project Defense lectures with Q&A

Videos of Mini-lectures by students


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OBSERVATIONS

Instructor^2 Observation

Instructor/ Students Observations Students/Student Observations

Connectivism: Capacity to know more is more critical

than what is currently known


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The Potential Misuse of Technology as a

Learning Tool


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Use of Technology in Specific Subject /

Classrooms

English Composition Courses Facilitates active participation

Transcends the professing expectations

Flips thinking: Bridging the Rhetoric of Visual and Writing

Introduces a new way of looking at reading and writing connection

Creates variety

Sets Real Life Relevance

She is the BEST teacher ofthis new era. She uses all the new technologies-amazing. We have a class

website where she posts her PowerPoint, assignments every day. We watch short videos and Ted

speeches relevant to the class topic. Her classes are FULL and INTERESTING!

(www.ratemyprofessors.com)

Oh, they noticed!!!
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/


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Use of Technology in Specific Subject /

Classrooms

MATH (Calculus) Facilitates active and collaborative participation (cognitive tools to

facilitate networked science)

Incorporates Experimental Mathematics for inquiry and discovery

Utilizes visualization techniques (concrete models: 3D printing; graphical:

software)

Re-conceptualizes the meaning of doing mathematics

Coordinates with other subject department


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STUDENT RESPONSESContrasting Opinions about Technology Use


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EXPERIENCING TECHNOLOGYQuotes by students

CONTRASTING OPINIONS

I love the Facebook group, it makes the

homework so easy and accessible. I also love Ted

videos, they are informative and inspirational.

The overall technology use in class is very

effective except the Facebook group. I am notreally into the social media thing like I used to be.

So, its kind of a hassle having to log in.


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DATA from Life Polls:College English Course Q1


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DATA from Life Polls:College English Course Q 2


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DATA from Life Polls:College English Course Q 3


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DATA: Anonymous SurveyCollected from students of 2 English Courses

THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL

Effectiveness? VERY EFFECTIVE!

Comprehension? -Makes the class easy to understand

Flexibility? -Easy access for missed lectures, assignments

Involvement? - Engaging, is relevant to real life

Learning Styles? -Visual learners are Very happy

Concerns? - Some resistance to social aspect of Facebook


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EXPERIENCING TECHNOLOGY

Quotes by students

I feel that the technology helps us a lot. It gives us a

broader way of learning and is very accessible.

I learn best with visuals, so I love all of your PowerPoint

lectures. The lectures and Drawings really help me capturethe topic and remember it. Ted is great. I watch it on my

own time as well. You do a great job on PowerPoint.

It is very effective. You make this class fun and exciting.You have everything in front of us, all we have to do is

follow it. I have not seen any class like this.

Technology use is excellent! I really have learned from it.

U U


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FUTURE

SUGGESTIONS / OUR SOLUTION

Connecting Old and New cohorts of

students

- Building resources organically

Easing the access to shared information

Teacher/Student focus on generating

knowledge in subject matter

Creating a culture of practice

- Department Involvement

- Instructors Network


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ANDWITH THE USE OFTECHNOLOGY WECREATED THIS PRESENTATION

AND COLLECTED THE DATA!THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

CHALLENGE YOUR STUDENTSAND

YOURSELF WITH TECHNOLOGY!

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