Ensure your Students Emerge with Critical Career Skills - Course Technology Computing Conference
Ensure your Students Emerge with Critical Career Skills - Course Technology Computing Conference Presenter: Ken Baldauf, Florida State University & Lauren Murphy, Cengage Learning Submerge yourself in Ken Baldauf and Beverly Amer’s next-gen online learning framework, Emerge with Computers. Instructors who use Emerge are passionate about how the content is relevant for students in their courses – Emerge keeps students engaged and invested in the course with information that is constantly refreshed with the latest current events and provides career-relevant, problem-solving exercises for skills. Join this fast-moving session to learn more on how Emerge can lead to better outcomes in YOUR course: the first 20 minutes will introduce the new Emerge 5.0 content, the next 10 minutes will include a demonstration of Emerge in MindTap, and the remaining 30 minutes will be spent in a focus group style – eliciting your feedback on the introduction to computers course, what features in Emerge stand-out as critical elements to your students’ success, and what you could see further benefiting this product. As Ken and Beverly say, the best way to learn about technology is by experiencing it! Come down and do the same.
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Ensure your Students Emerge with Critical Career Skills - Course Technology Computing Conference
- 2. EMERGE CRITICAL CAREER SKILLS WITH Lauren Murphy Cengage Learning Ken Baldauf Florida State University
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- 12. Malcolm Gladwell defines a TIPPING POINT as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” Education is at the tipping point.
- 13. SHIFTPARADIGM Thomas Kuhn defines PARADIGM SHIFT as a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. Our education paradigm is shifting.
- 14. TIP and SHIFT or become IRRELEVANT to students.
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- 17. The first completely online solution for teaching Computer Fluency emergewith Computers
- 20. chunked content direct and to the point bountiful media lots of photos from news and industry relevance! timely YouTube videos related news via RSS feed, updated each week! wiki-style links Connect concepts and issues search hierarchical organization links out
- 21. video tutorials overviews that engage why should I learn this? sequence of short videos 2 – 6 minutes
- 22. video tutorials individualized learning Progress at your own preferred rate of speed view in window or full screen closed captioning and script provide accessible access
- 23. Just like you’d teach it, one-on- one Friendly Applications build a complete project Project-Based Replaces need for print manual Engaging approach
- 24. Working with Graphics Common Formatting Functions Common Editing Functions Working with Tables Printing & Publishing Sharing Content Microsoft Office common skills taught first
- 25. Word Body Balance Business Plan Document Formatting Academic Publishing Tools Integration with Excel taught from case study perspective
- 26. Madison Artists Gallery Cells & Cell Data Formulas Functions Formatting Spreadsheet Graphics Integration with PowerPoint Excel Madison Artists Gallery
- 27. Mission Street Inn Slides & Text Using Graphic Objects Integration with Excel Slide Shows Presenting & Publishing PowerPoint Mission Street Inn
- 28. Wild West Tours Database Tables Datasheets & Forms Queries & Reports Integration with Excel and text files Access Wild West Tours
- 31. Teach Emerge Site- http://www.teachemerge.com Each chapter-related page includes the following: – overview of chapter content – social media activities – flipped classroom activities – project-based learning activities – games – topic-related news stories – chapter videos New Emerge web site designed to simplify and reduce prep time, and revitalize the course with exciting new teaching options:
Editor's Notes
- Traditional teaching methods alone are not effective with students who are more accustomed to networking for knowledge. There arises a disconnect between students and course content.Teachers are under increasing pressure to entertain in order to engage students.
- Friendly instructor as guideComprehensive project built into lessonsReplaces need for hefty print manual
- Teacher's Assistant" website introduces you to the latest trends in education, and shows you how to apply those trends to teaching each chapter in Emerge.