Agile Teaching with Technology

Agile Teaching with Technology: Clickers, Blogs, and More
Derek Bruff
Asst. Director, Center for Teaching
Sr. Lecturer, Mathematics
Vanderbilt University

An Example – Clickers &Agile Teaching

Your sister-in-law calls to say that she's having twins.Which of the following is more likely?(Assume that she’s not having identical twins.)
Twin boys
Twin girls
One boy and one girl
All are equally likely
0 of 5

Peer Instruction

Your sister-in-law calls to say that she's having twins.Which of the following is more likely?(Assume that she’s not having identical twins.)

Formative Assessment &Agile Teaching

Formative Assessment

Agile Teaching

Which of the following (would) make agile teaching with clickers challenging for you? Mark all that apply.
It’s too chaotic. I prefer to have my lessons well planned.
I worry I won’t have time to cover what I need to.
My students would prefer to take notes and figure things out later.
I worry I’ll find out my great explanations aren’t so great.
None of the above. I  agile teaching.
0 of 5

Teaching with Clickers

A Few Clicker Vendors
Turning Technologies
i>clicker
Qwizdom
InterWrite PRS
eInstruction

Next Generation Clickers
Cell Phones as ClickersExample – Poll Everywhere(www.polleverywhere.com)

Next Generation Clickers
Smart Phones as Clickers
Example – ACU’s iPhone Initiative (www.acu.edu/connected)

Factual Recall Question
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Romanticism?
Attention to “the natural”
Valued “folk” literature, such as fairy tales
Had a strong geographical center in Düsseldorf
Referred to “the blue flower” as a central symbol for longing
Valued medieval literature and art
„Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer“
Caspar David Friedrich
Source: Briggs & Keyek-Franssen (2010)

Conceptual Questions
Imagine holding two identical bricks under water. Brick A is just beneath the surface of the water, while Brick B is at a greater depth. The force needed to hold Brick B in place is…
Larger than
The same as
Smaller than
the force required to hold Brick A in place.
Eric Mazur, Physics, Harvard University

Application Question
Christine Bombaro, Library, Dickinson College

Critical Thinking Questions
Hamlet’s lines following the death of Ophelia suggest that:
Hamlet really loved Ophelia, and is so distraught to learn of her death that he proposes to eat a crocodile.
Hamlet thinks that Laertes’s grief is mere posturing, and mocks it by exaggeration.
Hamlet cares little for Ophelia, but is eager to enter into a rhetorical chest-thumping competition with her brother.
Elizabeth Cullingford, English, University of Texas-Austin

Student Perspective Questions
Which of the following statements most closely matches what you think?
Humans evolved from other life forms with divine assistance.
Humans evolved from other life forms without divine assistance.
Humans were created directly by a divine being within the past 10,000 years.
Philippa Levine, History, University of Southern California

Confidence Levels
Is it possible for the standard matrix of a linear transformation not to have an eigenvalue?
Yes – High Confidence
Yes – Low Confidence
No – Low Confidence
No – High Confidence

Which of these question types would be most useful in your teaching?
Factual Recall Questions
Conceptual Questions
Application Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
Student Perspective Questions
Confidence-Level Questions

Opening Up the Backchannel

Presentation

Presentation with Q&A

Presentation with Backchannel Type 1(Student-Student Conversations)

Presentation with Backchannel Type 2(Feedback from All Students)

Presentation with Backchannel Type 3(Conversations with People Not Physically Present)
Classroom Walls

All That Plus Google Jockeys
Classroom Walls

Twitter + Small-Group Discussions
“The Twitter Experiment”
Monica Rankin, History, University of Texas-Dallas

Twitter + A Librarian
Gardner Campbell, Literature & New Media, Baylor University
Ellen FilgoE-Learning Librarian

Google Moderator + Q&A

Just-in-Time Teachingwith Blogs

First Exposure
Walvoord & Anderson (1998)

30%
of students will “do the reading” on their own
Hobson (2004)

Just-in-Time Teaching
Novak (1999)

Questions?

Derek Bruff
derek.bruff@vanderbilt.edu
derekbruff.com
Flickr Photo Credits
“Drew & Katie” by TheNickster
“Macbook X-Ray” by Pipeapple
“nose slide” by B.A.D.
“Super 8” by eqqman
“Stop Watch 6031” by Yukon White Light
“Questions” by Oberazzi

http://neosergio.net	1174
http://derekbruff.com	309
http://derekbruff.org	71
http://www.neosergio.net	2
http://neosergio.net&_=1350506091859 HTTP	1

Agile Teaching with Technology

by Derek Bruff on Oct 14, 2010

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

5 Embeds 1,557

Statistics

Agile Teaching with Technology Presentation Transcript