This document discusses the history of technology used in classrooms from the 1890 chalkboard to modern devices like the Apple iPad. It outlines both advantages and disadvantages of approaches like BYOD (bring your own device) and using tablets to replace textbooks and other materials. The document also discusses how technology can be used to engage different learning styles, boost student motivation, and enhance teaching materials. It presents examples of apps that can support teaching and learning. Finally, it discusses the flipped classroom model and how technology benefits lifelong learning.
1. Teaching Students to Fish with
Better Poles: Promoting Lifelong
Learning through Emergent
Technology
Bethany Marston and
Steve Honeywell
Rasmussen College Rockford
2. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
To understand where we currently
stand with technology, we must
acknowledge how far we have
come.
3. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
To understand where we currently
stand with technology, we must
acknowledge how far we have
come.
4. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
1890: Chalkboard
Perhaps the most
durable instrument of
American education,
it would remain a
standard tool from the
era of the one-room
schoolhouse to the
computer age.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
5. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
1930: Overhead
Projector
Widely used by the US
military to train forces in
World War II, the
overhead projector
eventually spread to
schools.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
6. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
1972: Handheld Calculator
Though studies showed that
calculators improved
students’ attitude toward
math, teachers were slow
to adopt them for fear that
they would undermine the
learning of basic skills.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
7. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
1980: Plato Computer
Public schools in the
US averaged one
computer for every 92
students in 1984; in
2008 there was one
computer for every 4
students.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
8. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
1999: Interactive
Whiteboard
The traditional
whiteboard was
reinvented using a
touch-detecting
white screen, a
projector, and a
computer.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
9. A Short History of Technology in the
Classroom
2010: Apple iPad
This piece of
equipment is the most
recent adaption to the
technological scale. It
is called the “all-in-one
portable computer
device.”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html
10. Tablets– All-in-One Technology
Tablets can replace many pieces of
equipment that students do NOT have to
bring to class including:
Textbooks
Laptops
Spirals
Calculators
12. BYOD Movement
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
60-80% of students own smart
technology
Virtually all students with smart
technology use it for education
“The place of technology is to enhance teaching
and learning, but not to entirely replace existing
approaches”(Sanders, 2012, p. 536).
13. Advantages of BYOD in the
classroom:
① Students are using familiar
technology
② Inclusive environment
③ Simpler infrastructure
14. Disadvantages of BYOD in the
classroom:
① Students without smart technology
② Lowest common denominator
③ Security
16. Adapting to Diverse Learning
Styles using Technology
Visual/ Spatial:
use images and pictures to
enhance your lectures
Musical: incorporate music
from youtube
Logical-Mathematical:
Create games, puzzles,
quizzes, and polls
17. Learning Styles (continued)
Intrapersonal:
students have the ability
to work independently and
at their own pace
Bodily-Kinesthetic
students can interact
with apps using their
hands or create videos
Verbal-Linguistic
Students can read e-
books, websites, and
blogs
18. Boost Your Students’ Motivation
Here are a few ways to boost student
engagement:
① Poll Students (Socrative)
② Provide interaction with
theoretical concepts
③ Convert Words into Raps (AutoRap)
④ Make lectures more exciting by
integrating images, videos, games
http://www.educationdive.com/news/18-ipad-uses-how-classrooms-are-benefiting-from-apples-tablets/68569/
19. Enhance Your Material with
Technology
“The potential for TEL is huge, but if all it
entails is putting lectures on podcasts, making a
PowerPoint to a flash e-learning module, and
putting paper text on the web, then we have not
really used the technology to fulfill its
potential” (Dror, 2011, p.6)
http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/09/24/5-mediarich-lesson-ideas-to-encourage-higherorder-thinking.aspx
20. Apps We Love
Apps to help support teaching:
• Videos
– http://youtube/rAy2HiBfRUU
• Doceri
– An app that allows you to use your
computer wirelessly. Also a whiteboard.
• Show Me
– Recordable whiteboard
• Quisr Pro
– Customizable quiz game
21. Apps We Love
Apps to help support students:
• Flashcards+
– Create flashcards for any
subject
• Evernote
– Take Notes, Save Images,
Create Reminders
• Penultimate
– Use a stylus/finger to
create custom notes. Can be
saved to evernote.
22. Flipped Classroom:
Traditional classroom events
(lectures) take place outside of the
classroom on the students’ time
Class time is used for assignments
and traditional “homework”
Students learn at their own pace and
style and can get help specifically
when they need it
24. Technology Benefits of
Classroom Flipping
① Students have access to
instructional materials at all
times
② Students can use familiar
technology to develop learning
skills
③ Students can learn to be content
creators rather than merely
content consumers
25. How this All Applies
to Lifelong Learning
Students learn to incorporate both
familiar and new technology into
their education
Learning is removed from the
classroom and put into daily life
Learning stops being passive and
becomes something in which students
are active participants
Students can access resources such as websites, articles, textbooks, manuals, and more. For example, medical students can access clinical guidelines, pharmaceutical/ drug information, which can be quick and convenient. It also makes it easy for students to log and track informations and send and store reminders.
-Smart phones and tables provide easy access to the internet for students to connect with other students to share information with one another. Students share their opinions through social networks such as facebook and twitter, blogs, websites, email, and texts.
-Students can also access videos and podcasts such as Youtube and Vimeo to learn and teach others.
-Connecting to the internet also means easy access to connect with experts from across the world (Sandars, 2012).
Where textbooks can be limiting, the internet can help students get more up to date information, clarification, and multiple perspectives. The skills that students are using to do these searches and to make sense of the information they find are transferrable skills for future self-directed learning initiatives.
How can we promote life-long learning and help students improve the way they use technology?
As educators we can provide feedback to students on how they approach the assignment and research. What steps did they take? What searches did they make? We can track their process and provide feedback and suggestions.
-One way to do this is to use a voice recognition software that is later uploaded to an electronic portfolio and discussed with the student later.
Everyone’s voice is heard
Brain friendly (Dror)
Password example
Cognitive Load
Strive to minimize cognitive load for learners so they can focus on what they’re learning rather than using brain power on figuring out the navigation.
If we strive for consistency across technology than the brain can focus on what actually matters.
Auditory components
Auditory components in digital content can be confusing and taxing on the brain because it’s hard to follow what is being read.
Solutions:
Use ‘karaoke’ to bold words you hear
Highlight and emphasize words by bolding or changing the font color or size
Otherwise the brain has to spend more time and cognitive energy on figuring out what’s the important information
How else can you make curriculum more brain friendly?
Rather than having students watch a video and discuss it later. Make the video interactive. During certain spots (‘hot spots’) of the video have the student click on multiple choice questions and even try to incorporate competition (Dror, date of article not listed??)
Digital Divide
Brain friendly (Dror, 2011)
Password example
Ideal password- how legitimize is that?
According to Dror…
Cognitive Load
Strive to minimize cognitive load for learners so they can focus on what they’re learning rather than using brain power on figuring out the navigation.
If we strive for consistency across technology than the brain can focus on what actually matters.
Auditory components
Auditory components in digital content can be confusing and taxing on the brain because it’s hard to follow what is being read.
Solutions:
Use ‘karaoke’ to bold words you hear
Highlight and emphasize words by bolding or changing the font color or size
Otherwise the brain has to spend more time and cognitive energy on figuring out what’s the important information
How else can you make curriculum more brain friendly?
Rather than having students watch a video and discuss it later. Make the video interactive. During certain spots (‘hot spots’) of the video have the student click on multiple choice questions and even try to incorporate competition (Dror, 2011)
Digital Divide
We can’t just take our current curriculum that’s on paper and expect to use it with all the new technology (Dror, date??)
We can’t just take our current curriculum that’s on paper and expect to use it with all the new technology.
Our challenge to you…
How can you use technology to its fullest potential?
Students can access resources such as websites, articles, textbooks, manuals, and more. For example, medical students can access clinical guidelines, pharmaceutical/ drug information, which can be quick and convenient. It also makes it easy for students to log and track informations and send and store reminders.
-Smart phones and tables provide easy access to the internet for students to connect with other students to share information with one another. Students share their opinions through social networks such as facebook and twitter, blogs, websites, email, and texts.
-Students can also access videos and podcasts such as Youtube and Vimeo to learn and teach others.
-Connecting to the internet also means easy access to connect with experts from across the world (Sandars, 2012).
Where textbooks can be limiting, the internet can help students get more up to date information, clarification, and multiple perspectives. The skills that students are using to do these searches and to make sense of the information they find are transferrable skills for future self-directed learning initiatives.
How can we promote life-long learning and help students improve the way they use technology?
As educators we can provide feedback to students on how they approach the assignment and research. What steps did they take? What searches did they make? We can track their process and provide feedback and suggestions.
-One way to do this is to use a voice recognition software that is later uploaded to an electronic portfolio and discussed with the student later.
Everyone’s voice is heard
