technolgies for teaching and learning
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR
TEACHING AND LEARNINGFall 2009
Pamela Gades,
Instructional Technology Specialist
University of Minnesota, Morris
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INTRO
Employing the seven principles for good practice inundergraduate education (Chickering and Gamson, March1987):
Good practice in undergraduate education: encourages contact between students and faculty,
develops reciprocity and cooperation among students,
encourages active learning,
gives prompt feedback,
emphasizes time on task, communicates high expectations, and
respects diverse talents and ways of learning.
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INTRO
While each practice can stand alone on itsown, when all are present their effectsmultiply. Together they employ six powerfulforces in education: activity,
expectations,
cooperation,
interaction,
diversity, and responsibility.
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COMMUNICATION
Encourages Frequent Contact BetweenStudents and Faculty
Email
Forum
Blog
Wiki
Establish policies for your course regardingusage of the tools, and timelines forresponding to messages.
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TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATION
Email: timely email responses encouragecontact
Electronic journals: Students journal weeklyand reflect on their thoughts and feelingsabout the class. The instructor responds toeach students weekly journal.
Discussion boards: Encourage studentparticipation by sending them private email.
Online office hours via chat or webconferencing
Telephone/voicemail/text messaging
Electronic submission of assignments5
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TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATION(CONTD)
Use the Comment feature in Word (orAcrobat) to respond to student workelectronically
Post your schedule online for students
Use a course management system (Moodleor WebVista)
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COLLABORATION/COOPERATION
Develops Reciprocity and Cooperation Among Students
Guidelines for encouraging meaningful participation inonline discussions: Learners should be required to participate (and their grade
should depend on participation).
Discussion groups should remain small.
Discussions should be focused on a task.
Tasks should always result in a product.
Tasks should engage learners in the content.
Learners should receive feedback on their discussions. Evaluation should be based on the quality of postings (and not
the length or number).
Instructors should post expectations for discussions.
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TECHNOLOGY FOR COLLABORATION
Class assignments worked on in small groups,but discussed openly through a discussion board
Jeopardy type games using classes broken intosmaller teams
Use course management system to creategroups and then use discussion boards either inprivate group discussions or allowing anyone toread any groups discussions
Use a discussion board for students to postrough drafts of work that others can critique
Teams collaborate on a group project via adiscussion board
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TECHNOLOGY FOR COLLABORATION(CONTD)
Teams use email groups to share & collaborate
Structured WebQuests
Web page construction by teams of students
Chat rooms
Google Docs or using Microsoft Word collaborative tools Collaborative electronic portfolios
Email Listservs
Continue class discussions online amongst yourselves
Create group Blogs
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ACTIVE LEARNING - PROJECTS
Talk about it
Write about it
Relate it to past experiences
Apply it to their daily lives
Students should present course projects. Thisoften motivates them to perform at a higher
level.They learn from seeing and discussing their
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TECHNOLOGY FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
Create a set of practical projects and allowgroups to choose a project. These projectscan be presented in the classroom or a groupWeb site or Blog can be assigned
Interacting with animations, simulations, andgames
Allowing students to research topics duringclass using their laptops
Playing video clips, or creating video clips todemonstrate learning
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TECHNOLOGY FOR ACTIVE LEARNING(CONTD)
Extend research outside the classroom,students then post findings to the discussionboard or create Blog or Wiki entries to reporttheir findings
Analysis of real world case studies
Tour a place via the Web
Set up a video conferences with professionalsin the field
Interact with online laboratory exercises
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TECHNOLOGY FOR ACTIVE LEARNING(CONTD)
Use in-class polling software to pose questionsand have students work in small groups todiscuss and agree on answers
Student Response Systems (clickers)
Assign students to use Twitter to post news,links, and thoughts on course topics
Use Twitter in class to display a class Twitter site.Students post throughout the class period to
share thoughts and ideas Post lecture outlines on a course Web site that
students can use and customize prior to classand record notes on during class
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PROVIDE PROMPT FEEDBACK
Instructors need to provide two types offeedback: Acknowledgement Feedback:
Confirms that some event has occurred. For example, the
instructor may send an e-mail acknowledging that he or shehas received a question or assignment and will respondsoon.
Information Feedback: provides information or evaluation, such as an answer to a
question, or an assignment grade and comments
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROMPTFEEDBACK
Assignments submitted electronically areeasily commented on and returnedelectronically
Course management systems allow for easynotification of submissions, which helpsinstructors to promptly respond
Email each student upon receipt of theirassignment, just to let him/her know that it
was received Classroom response systems (clickers)
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROMPTFEEDBACK (CONTD)
Post on a discussion board to giveencouragement and feedback to studentswho are posting
Electronic Portfolios: An online portfolioallows the student to store selected papersand projects and allows faculty to attachcomments to those papers and projects
Email your students for announcements, to
give feedback on assignments, or to follow-up on something from class
Use polls or surveys to help reshape thecourse as it unfolds 16
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TIME ON TASK
Time + Energy = Learning
There is no substitute for time on task.
Teach them effective time management.
Allocate realistic amounts of time.
Regularly-distributed deadlines encouragestudents to spend time on tasks and help
students with busy schedules avoidprocrastination.
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR TIME ON TASK
Online submission of assignments helps thestudents complete assignments on time
Post all assignments on the course Web site
Have students store all their work in theirnetwork file storage space --- minimizes lostor corrupted files
Create online auto-graded quizzes andsurveys for students to test themselves andrepeat as many times as they like
Create and assign WebQuests
Online discussions and chats 18
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR TIME ON TASK(CONTD)
Recorded lectures or additional conceptpresentations (podcasts or vodcasts)
Provide hot links to articles and otherreadings which means less time studentsspend searching for materials in the library(also electronic reserves)
Post class notes online for student review (soreview of the material in class is not
required) Use the online calendar tool in WebVista or
Moodle to help students plan and organize19
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COMMUNICATING HIGHEXPECTATIONS
Expect more and youll get more.
High expectations are important foreveryone.
Provide examples or models for students tofollow, along with comments explaining whythe examples are good. Provide examples of the types of interactions you
expect from the discussion forum.
What to do.What not to do.
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR
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TECHNOLOGIES FORCOMMUNICATING HIGHEXPECTATIONS
Grade weekly online discussion board postings. Givefeedback as to what is an outstanding response, andwhat is not.
Provide a scoring rubric for every assignment, postedonline for students to refer to at any time
Especially useful for group work are learning contracts
Post group results and finished projects online meaningful audience concept
Post examples of exemplary work
Provide weekly progress reports
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RESPECTS DIVERSE TALENTSAND WAYS OF LEARNING
There are many roads to learning.
People bring different talents and styles oflearning to college.
Students need the opportunity to show theirtalents and learn in ways that work for them.
Students then can be pushed to learn in newways that do not come so easily.
Allow students to choose project topics
Allow students to select a method for a project:write a paper, create a video, present in class,create a web site, etc.
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESPECTING
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESPECTINGDIVERSE TALENTS AND WAYS OFLEARNING
Utilize WebQuests or multimediapresentations as a way to infuse thecurriculum with diverse viewpoints.
Offer students choices of activities accordingto their learning styles: Simulated case studies
Videos
Computer-aided instructional packages
Articles, books, and Web sites
Oral presentations, demonstrations, multi-mediapresentations, visual aids, audio aids, and more
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESPECTINGDIVERSE TALENTS AND WAYS OFLEARNING (CONTD)
Provide lecture slides and notes online prior to class
Provide a mix of communication media:Allow students to use email to ask questions
Some prefer face-to-face interactions
Post everything online for 24/7 access by studentsUse discussion boards for homework help, peer
networking
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TECHNOLGIES FOR
TEACHING AND LEARNINGFall 2009
Pamela Gades,
Instructional Technology Specialist
University of Minnesota, Morris