More than 'add on’ Technology as a Teaching and Learning Tool

MORE THAN 'ADD-ON’

Technology as a Teaching and Learning Tool

Goals of this Session:

• recent trends in edtechDiscover

• benefits & challengesDiscuss

• one tool with one learning goalMatch

...recent trends in edtech

Discover

What has changed?The ‘Add-On’ Approach: Early Film

What has changed?

Our friend QWERTY

Some things are ‘sticky’

It takes time to appreciate the potential of new technology

How we do things determines the technology we use…

Lessons from change…

Ursula Franklin*

“Technology is ‘a way of doing something’”

*Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology. CBC Massey Lectures Series. Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1990, 17

Ursula Franklin*

The practice itself can define the content…

… so that "the technology of doing something defines the activity itself (17)."

*Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology. CBC Massey Lectures Series. Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1990, 17

Growth in access…

Growth of multimedia

Increased mobility

Varied sources of information

Where to & avoid…

Start with what you do now…

• one tool with one learning goalMatch

with what you do now…What do you want your students to…?

• Design, construct, plan, produce, invent, devise, make, etc.

Create

• Check, hypothesize, critique, experiment, judge, detect, test, etc.

Evaluate

• Compare, organize, deconstruct, attribute, outline, structure, integrate, etc.

Analyze

• Implement, carry out, use, execute, run, upload, share, etc.

Apply

• Interpret, summarize, infer, paraphrase, classify, compare, etc.

Understand

• Recognize, list, describe, identify, retrieve, name, locate, etc.

Remember

Table of Tools & Functions*

*Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/table-of-educational-functions-and-technologies/

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

An Example from Comparative Politics Goals:

To be able to analyze (compare & integrate) demographic & political statistics for different countries

To be able to use data to predict trends & to evaluate the reasons for differences between countries

Tool: (now Google Public Data Explorer)

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

http://www.gapminder.org/world

Use to predict & explain… What trends would you predict for the

next 100 years? 200 years? What would happen if X increased but Y

did not? What does it mean if X is/is not related

to Y?

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

Fun Examples: Google Labs Ngram Viewer:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

Ideascalehttp://ideascale.com/

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

Google’s Art Projecthttp://www.googleartproject.com/

UBC’s

http://assignmentcalculator.library.ubc.ca

Note: links on to all of these resources are available on my blog.

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/100/digital_fun/play_the_game

Use Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy & Table of Functions and Tools to Match… Goal: I would like learners to be able to remember at

least 3 definitions of ‘democracy’

Tools:

...locate & compare different definitions (Google scholar, EBSCO, Project Muse, etc.)

...bookmark, annotate & share a web page (Diigo)

…view a 5-minute video (lecture or news report)

…listen to a podcast

…find a famous speech

…find a famous quotation

…find a famous image

For Inspiration, Visit…

My Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com