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

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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

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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

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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 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 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

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