Teaching strategies using technology

Teaching Strategies Using Technology


Curriculum Development

◦Curriculum originally came from a Latin word, which meant a racetrack that horses ran around.


Technology and Learning

◦ Technology is helping educators expand beyond linear, text-based learning to engage students who learn best in other ways.

◦ Technology is allowing teachers-students to collaborate, inquire, and share.

◦ The use of technology is not about the device or the capability, it’s about the experience.


What are We Talking About?

◦ Just in Time Teaching (JiTT)


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ History

Invented by Gregor Novak (Professor USAF & IUPUI)

Physics professor – Air Force Academy Developed for the working adult to maintain

interest in learning a subject


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ What is it?

Just-in-Time Teaching or JiTT (Novak, Patterson, Gowin, & Christian, 1999) is a pedagogical approach that combines the best features of traditional in-class instruction with the exciting new communication channels opened by the World Wide Web technologies.


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ What is it?

The JiTT framework encourages student learning by promoting these three learning strategies (Middendorf, Novak, 2002). Out-of-class assignments increase student study time

and structure student learning for maximum benefit. Students work together in teams to solve problems

and teach each other. Faculty gather insights into student thoughts and

feelings that they can use to adjust lectures and exercises to better meet student needs.


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ How?

JiTT's goal is to improve learning by using web exercises, called warm-ups. Warm-Ups are a series of questions about a subject to prepare students for the upcoming exercise

JiTT’s framework fosters Student-to-Student interaction

Interaction between students and the teacher are crucial to learning


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ Benefits

Because of the increasing use of mobile devices, learning content is being packaged and stored in new, more efficient ways, allowing it to be distributively accessed when needed, at greater speeds and in a wide variety of formats

JiTT tiny lessons provides the means for students to self-check knowledge and understanding via brief interactive lessons regardless of location


Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT)◦ Conclusion

JiTT makes teaching less a matter of data transmission and more of a collaborative exercise in collection, orchestration, remixing, and integration of data into knowledge building

The goal for the student now shifts from a need to collect information to a need to understand, and draw connections from it—to acquire it, disseminate it, and collaborate in its use



Examples

Just-in-Time Teachinghttp://jitt.org

Science Education Resource Center: Example JiTT WarmUp Exerciseshttp://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/justintime/index.htm

Video-Based Case Storyhttp://pachyderm.cdl.edu/elixr-stories/serc-geoscience/

JiTT Digital Library (must request login)http://jittdl.physics.iupui.edu/sign_on/