ISTE CONFERENCE

PHILADELPHIA

JUNE 26, 2011

EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION IN THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM

• MIMIO INTERACTIVE TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES

Mimio and Headsprout

• Leader in instructional content business

• Recent acquisition

• Dr. Joe Lang - senior scientist at Headsprout

WHAT DOES QUALITY INSTRUCTION REALLY

MEAN?• Review our approaches on technology

• Film projectors>slide projectors>LCD projector>overhead projector>Smartboards>interactive white boards>INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM ITSELF

INTERACTIVE CLASSROOMS

• No longer interactive displays but interactive classrooms

• Wrist displays are now new

• Sheet of plastic with books on them

• 3-D projectors

Question: is interactivity enough? Is it going to be

enough to simply make 3-D environments?

• What we need to look at is what does it take to produce real outcomes aligned with our standards?

• How will these technologies help us meet these core standards?

Designing a quality framework for world clas teaching and

learning within the new pedagogical landscape?

• Over 400 studies on ways to teach concepts and to find what a concept is

• “beauty without utility is an ornamental lump” Duke Ellington

Schema

• How many really get into Blooms’s higher levels or evaluation and synthesis?

• Content analysis>Instructional objectives>criterion tests>instructional sequence>entry repertoire>performance data

• Do we want to teach concepts, principles, strategies?

What are criterion evaluations?

• How are we going to evaluate how we apply the strategies before we design our instruction?

• We have to teach what comes into the room: so, what does it take to teach this lesson?

Improved learning in a large enrollment physics class

• By Deslauriers, Schelew, Wieman (May 3, 2011, Vol. 332, 5 Science

• Found more learning in the interactive engagement

What’s Important

• Analyzing>From searching for activities to teaching concepts

• Inquiry>Animate the critical features for visual learning

• Comprehending>Use Smartboard to have students drag the information into the right boxes

Actual Lessons

• Drag and drop lessons

• Nothing new here; this is what we have been doing with our Smartboards: drag and dropping, taking surveys, evaluating quickly with clicker element

• Still nothing new