Looking Beyond the Whiz-bang Technology: Using Mobile Learning Technology Tools to Improve Economic...

Looking Beyond the Whiz-bang Technology:

Using Mobile Learning Technology Tools to Improve Economic

Instruction

Steven C Myers

Daniel Talley

Second half

• Assessment and MS Research• Electronic Grading• Responding to students

– FAQs and emails

• Specialized Tablet Software– Classroom Presenter– DyKnow Vision– Agilix GoBinder & Blackboard Backpack– One Note– Virtual Office Hours – Adobe Connect– Write over anything –

• What about the future?

How to Assess the Tablet PC

1. Does it support greater efficiency, but does not change the curriculum?

2. Does it change the curriculum and invigorate teaching and learning, but this could have happened without the Tablet PC?

3. Does it change the curriculum with an impact that can not be achieved without the Tablet PC?

Microsoft Research’s First Conference on Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum, 2004

• “What are the ultimate outcomes for (economic) education?

• How does the Tablet PC change the interaction between teacher and student and how will this impact classroom pedagogy?

• How does this new type of interaction affect course content and the (economic) curriculum?

• Are these new pedagogies and strategies applicable to other disciplines?

• What are the differences between classes in which only the teacher uses a Tablet PC and classes in which all the students also use one?

• Are there replicable strategies, tools, and techniques that can scale across large numbers of teachers and students?”

Alverado (2004) pp. 1-2.

Steps of Electronic Markup

• Student submits (hand written)– Scanned– Faxed (eFax.com)– Digital server / copier– Tablet PC

• Instructor receives

• Instructor marks up

• Instructor returns to student

Steps of Electronic Markup

• Student submits

• Instructor receives– Save in preferred marking format– Using naming convention

• Instructor marks up– Uses Journal or preferred pgm– Saves to PDF and return

• Instructor returns to student

Electronic Markup

Electronic Markup

Responding to students

Responding to students

• Written on Tablet

• Using Microsoft journal

• Saved as Adobe Acrobat pdf file

Responding to students

Use Ink in Email (outlook)

Responding to students

Classroom Presenter (UW)

Classroom Presenter (UW)

On this screen in the ASSA presentation was a On this screen in the ASSA presentation was a link to a movie at DyKnow.com.link to a movie at DyKnow.com.

Click the video icon below to go to the pageClick the video icon below to go to the pageWhere the mathematic video is located.Where the mathematic video is located.

After viewing the DyKnow pages and movies After viewing the DyKnow pages and movies close the window and return to this slide.close the window and return to this slide.

Economists using Dyknow

More Benefits - Organization

Microsoft One Note

Virtual Office Hours

M2 Screen AnnotatorWrite Over Anything

What about the Future?• Microsoft Research Workshop on Computing Curriculum, 2004

and 2005– Economics not mentioned

• Workshop on Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education, 2006

– Economist Mary Dixon published

• Call for papers open for …

• Encourage Economics Faculty to begin Assessment • Encourage the discussion on tch-econ and blogs• Myers and Talley to survey the Faculty about Tablet Use.