Enhancing Student Success: Teaching Well With Technology

1. Enhancing Student Success:Teaching Well With Technology October 23, 2009

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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?

6. Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember 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.)

7. Taxonomy of Significant Learning Learning How to Learn Foundational Knowledge • Becoming a better student• Inquiring about a subject• Self-directing learners Understanding and Remembering:• Information• Ideas Caring Application From Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. L. Dee Fink Develooping new:• Feelings• Interests• Values • Skills• Thinking: Critical, creative and practical • Managing projects Human Dimension Integration Learning about:• Oneself• Others Connecting:• Ideas• People• Realms of Life

8. Pedagogical Strategies: Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering and Gamson) • 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. Orbital example

9. 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 triple with an approach that focuses on the student and on interactive learning (7, 8).” Mazur, E. (2009). Farewell, Lecture?, Science, 323, 50-51.

10. 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.

11. 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 BottingExample – student films

12. 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