Teachnology: Learning About

Learning Through an Active, Authentic

Approach to Using Technology

Christy Raymond – Assistant Professor

Margot Zemrau - Graduate StudentJose Benito Tovillo - Graduate Student

Jessica Ley - Instructional Designer

Festival of Teaching and LearningUniversity of Alberta

May 4, 2018

Road Map

• Setting the Scene• Collaborative Partnerships • Student Reactions and Responses• Thoughts for the Future• Discussion

Setting the Scene

Course Assignment, Goals and Desired Outcomes● Teaching Technology Project ● Teaching Technology Celebration

Technology as Content and Process● Not just learn “about” technology but learning “about” and “with”.

Defining the Terms

Active Learning - a range of “instructional activities involving students in

doing things and thinking about what they are doing” (Bonwell and Eison, 1991, p.5)

Experiential Learning - Lewis and Williams (1994, p.5): “In its simplest

form, experiential learning means learning from experience or learning by doing. Experiential education first immerses learners in an experience and then encourages reflection about the experience to develop new skills, new attitudes, or new ways of thinking.”

Authentic Assessment - “an assessment requiring students to use the

same competencies or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they need to apply in the criterion situation in professional life” (Gulikers et al, p. 69)

...from a focus on covering decontextualized knowledge to an emphasis on teaching for a sense

of salience… (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard & Day, 2009, p. 82)

Students like to distinguish between the classroom and the real world, and if you interact with

students only in the classroom, you reinforce this false dichotomy(Bowen, 2012, p. 136)

Technology in our Context

• Teaching & Learning Office, Faculty of Nursing

• Technology Toolbox

• Authentic Technology Projects

You Want Us To Do What???

• First thoughts (Apprehensions)

• Awakening a Passion

• Fostering Curiosity

• Gaining a Critical Confidence

Pondering the Possibilities: Student Reflection

So Where To Now?

• Looking Back– What are the things that could have

been done differently?

• Looking Forward

– What questions can we continue to ask to study interventions and ideas such as these?

Thought Sharing and ?s

• How can active learning be actualized in different contexts?

• What principles of active learning, experiential learning and

authentic assessment overlap and how can we create synergy

between these components to inspire our students and

energize our learning environments?

• How do we create more evidence to support authentic, active

and experiential approaches to learning?

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References

Contact

Christy Raymond RN, PhDAssistant Professor

Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

780-248-5769 or craymond@ualberta.ca