Technology Enabled Teaching

Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching
Dr Rachel Cowen, Research Staff Trainer, University of Manchester
Mr Alex Hardman, E-Learning Developer, University of Manchester

About us

(We know a little)About you

‘…list the technologies you have used’

What would you like to get out of this?
Knowledge of the range of possibilities
How they can be used
Without causing stress and confusion
Without being overly complicated
Signposting to further information
To know what the advantages are
Create more interesting lectures
To connect with large & small audiences with IT

What would you like to get out of this?
University support available/ contacts
Engaging teaching strategies
Less work for me ;)
Confidence
Assessment
Tips, ideas and shortcuts
Maybe some swimming with sharks 

Objectives
Identify and categorise the activities that you do in your teaching
Practice using some technologies that could be applied in your training
Consider different ways that technology could be incorporated into your teaching
Evaluate the technologies in a teaching context

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Technologies change the way we do things and provide new opportunities/ challenges

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Mechanical Age
Technologies change how we do things

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Mechanical Age
Electronic Age

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Mechanical Age
Electronic Age
Digital Age

Living in a digital world
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User generated recommendation
Blogging/ micro-blogging
Social bookmarking/ referencing
Wiki’s
Chat
Slide sharing
RSS
Podcasting (sharing audio)
Searching
WE CANcreate, publish, broadcast, connect, share, search

We can categorise the types of activities that we use in our teaching
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We can categorise the types of activities that we use in our teaching
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Discussion
Dissemination
Activities
Assessment/ QA
Others? – Administration? Marketing?
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Activity – Think-Pair-Share
Think of all the activities that you do as part of your teaching. Add them to a category in the worksheet
Share with the person next to you
Share with the wider group

Mind Map
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Sewing this together. . .
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RSS
(Really Simple Syndication)

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RSS
Reader
(Really Simple Syndication)

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“Aggregation”

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“powerful learning experiences are social, immersive, engaging, and participatory.”
George Veletsianos, October 2009

What questions does this raise?
How does this make you feel as a teacher?
Do you agree/ disagree with ‘participatory’?

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Technology Enabled Teaching

by Alex Hardman on Nov 25, 2009

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