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Are your students browsing the Internet during lecture? Are they drawn to technology and away from your class? Do you feel like giving up? Instead of fighting technology, Professor Moore shows how embracing technology can draw students into a course. As they create course content via wikis and blogs, students take ownership of their own learning. Professor Moore demonstrates these tools, along with the challenges they can pose and ways of addressing them.
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Working with my studentsDr. Scott Moore
Business Information Technology, Associate Professor
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
BBA Program Faculty Director
samoore@umich.edu / http://www.umich.edu/~samoore/
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Last summer I was revising
a class that I teach
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BIT330
I teach undergraduate
business students
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I had lost my way
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Students wanted to pay more
attention to their email and the Web
than to me and my lecture.
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I wanted to teach with, and
learn with, my students
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I needed to work with them
instead of against them
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I applied a few novel ideas
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Student
learning
Collaboration-focused
technology
Student
collaboration
Personal
motivation
Students as
scientists
Trust their
attendance
Grading
policies
Use of
class time
Class time was definitely
for doing and interacting
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Almost every class period...
A little of this A lot of this
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Learning details were left for
exercises & out-of-class activities
Class technology enabled
collaboration & sharing
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I could share with them
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They could share with me
and each other
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I taught them to be scientists
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Gather data
Evaluate data
Analyze the data
Summarize the data
Write & publish results
We did an experiment at the
beginning of the semester as a class
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We repeated this process of data
gathering and analysis throughout
the semester
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I gave them the opportunity to work
on something personally important
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Voice
Motivation
Collaboration
I allowed (and encouraged) them
to teach me and other students
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• An empowering purpose
• Projects are a teaching
opportunity
• Blogs are a teaching
opportunity
• Industry updates gave each
student an opportunity to be
the expert
20 Project as a teaching opportunity
21 Blog as a teaching opportunity
22 Student as “industry expert”
I encouraged (and
supported) collaboration
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I trusted them to come (or
not) to class
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This was what I wanted to see
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Everything was on the Web so I
had to make classtime worthwhile
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The assignments provided
many opportunities for analysis
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Informs
Insight
Personal reaction
Context & links
Length & detail
BlogsProjects
Industry updates
Notes
Experiment
write-up
Test
All of these
required
writing,
analysis, &
evaluation
Was the overall experience with
the class positive?
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• Student learning
! Blogs
! Projects
! Test scores
• Attendance
• Evaluations
• Professor learning
I had lost my way
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I needed to work with them
instead of against them
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By the end of the semester, it was
apparent that more students learned
more than in previous classes
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