This presentation forms part of a workshop held as part of the HEA Enhancement Event 'Technology enhanced learning: What can we learn from MOOCs'. Further details: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events-conferences/event10203
The blog post that accompanies this presentation can be accessed via: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/technology-he-classroom-did-you-see-gorilla
Lids up or lids down? Jennie Osborn and Natasha Taylor
1. Lids up or lids down?
Jennie Osborn and Natasha Taylor
RIBA, London 22 January 2015
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So . . . . lids up or lids down?
http://macdailynews.com/2007/10/02/lecture_hall_photo_shows_widespread_mac_use/ ,
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 · 8:39 am
4. “Over the years, I’ve noticed that when I
do have a specific reason to ask
everyone to set aside their devices (“lids
down,” in the parlance of my
department), it’s as if someone has let
fresh air into the room. The
conversation brightens, and more
recently, there is a sense of relief from
many of the students. Multi-tasking is
cognitively exhausting — when we do it
by choice, being asked to stop can come
as a welcome change.”, Clay Shirky, 2014
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Opening windows . . .
Clay Shirky ‘Why Clay Shirky Banned Laptops,Tablets and Phones from his Classroom’
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-clay-shirky-banned-laptops-tablets-and-phones-from-his-classroom/
15.09.2014 accessed 04/12/2014
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Spot the difference . . .
vs.
Your former lover
tagged a photo you
are in.
The Crimean War was
the first conflict
significantly affected by
use of the telegraph.Field telegraph wire used during the Crimean War, 1855 (c). NAM Accession Number,
NAM. 1965-10-202-4, Copyright/Ownership: National Army Museum Copyright,
http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1965-10-202-4
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Whiteboard markers to a gunfight
Ross Griff, OK Corral 1, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rossaroni/5513521600/
8. • “Learning is about experiencing things and building them into
new and existing contexts.” David Kelly, 8 October 2014
• “Learning happens best in a classroom when everyone is
actively engaged with one another in the exchange of
information.” Anne Curzon, August 24 2014
• Stop lecturing so much. Just stop thinking that teaching means
standing there and talking at them. Steve Krause, 20 Sept 2014
• “The act of typing effectively turns the note-taker into a
transcription zombie, while the imperfect recordings of the
pencil-pusher reflect and excite a process of integration,
creating more textured and effective modes of recall.” Dan
Rockmore, June 2014 8
Reactions (and preactions)
11. “We often turn to our phones when we lose concentration,
interest or when the lecture becomes incomprehensible, so
I think including our devices will keep us alert and
participating, as well as checking if our understanding is
correct.”
- University of Manchester student
CASE STUDY: University of Manchester - TurningPoint and ResponseWare at the Faculty of
Humanities, http://www.turningpoint.co.uk/content/pdfs/University-of-Manchester.pdf accessed 11
December 2014
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Can you do it without technology?
Yes
Substitution –
why bother?
Partially No
Does the use of technology
transform the learning?
Yes
Redefinition
Partially
Modification
No
Augmentation.
Enhancement
Transformation
22. Curzan, Anne, ‘Why I’m asking you not to use laptops’, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 25
2014, http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/08/25/why-im-asking-you-not-to-use-laptops/
(accessed 5 December 2014)
Kelly, David, ‘Why technology belongs in a classroom’, http://davidkelly.me/2014/10/technology-
belongs-classroom/, 8 October 2014 (accessed 4 December 2014).
Krause, Steve, ‘Enough with the “no laptops in classrooms” already’, September 20 2014
http://stevendkrause.com/2014/09/20/enough-with-the-no-laptops-in-classrooms-already/comment-
page-1/ (accessed 5 December 2014)
Rockmore, Dan, ‘The Case for Banning Laptops in the classroom”, The New Yorker, 6 June 2014.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-case-for-banning-laptops-in-the-classroom (accessed 4
December 2014).
Shirky, Clay ‘Why Clay Shirky Banned Laptops, Tablets and Phones from his Classroom’
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-clay-shirky-banned-laptops-tablets-and-phones-from-his-
classroom/ 15 September 2014 (accessed 4 December 2014)
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