Active Teaching with Technology
Description
Teaching with technology is essential in today's classroom to enhance student’s learning. There is a need to support millennials’ expectations of what consists of an inviting and attractive learning environment in order to achieve teaching and learning objectives. This interactive workshop will promote active learning using technology and offer pedagogical methods for deploying it in the participants’ teaching. There will be example implementations throughout so that participants can start applying promptly.
Objectives
- Explore technology that supports your learning objectives.
- Facilitate interaction and active learning with technology.
- Stimulate your interest in educational tools.
Participant Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the importance of using technology in the classroom.
- Identify a list of apps and programs that match their teaching techniques.
- Discriminate between actively using technology in teaching and making technology do the teaching.
- Construct a curriculum strategy or redesign courses with technology utilized as a tool.
Background/Introduction:
- In higher education, students use technology in their daily lives that help extend their knowledge hence is the importance of catering their expectations and those of the faculty to expedite the learning process via technology. (The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition)
- “Teaching and learning that makes use of technology helps motivate and engage students; Demonstrate relevance; Make connections between ideas and information; Encourage and inspire; Facilitate learning communities.” (Berkeley Workshop, Levitt, M. 2017)
- “For successful integration leading to enhanced learning outcomes, teachers need to perceive learning technologies as part of a student centred/conceptual change teaching approach. The learning technologies need to be perceived as tools in the learning context which encourage students to use deep learning approaches – to seek meaning in the content being studied through interrelating the various aspects of the content, looking for a deeper understanding.”http://www.ifets.info/journals/5_1/cope.html
- “Technology Changes Teaching, Not Teachers” ...”importance of technology being used for a clear purpose” ...to support student learning. “Technology can improve the dynamics between teachers and students” https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/articles-and-essays/the-teaching-forum/how-technology-enhances-teaching-and-learning/
Challenges of Technology:
- Limited time to prepare and integrate new technology into courses.
- Technology can fail causing the instructor to resort to plan B.
- Technology is changing fast can’t keep up with equipment and software needed.
- Can be a distraction.
- Language barriers.
- Students do not have equal access to teaching tools as their teachers.
- Privacy risks.
- Students are not literate in college level technology.
- Students with special needs.
- Need of technical support to incorporate technology into the classrooms. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/articles-and-essays/the-teaching-forum/how-technology-enhances-teaching-and-learning/
Topics will include the following tools that facilitate:
- Live Class Participation
- Class Discussions
- Real-time Remote Collaboration
- Class note sharing
- Remote teaching
- Assessment and Assignments
- Communication
Tools that will be presented:
- Blackboard
- Poll everywhere
- MyU
- Socrative
- Kahoot
- Plagiarism tools: Blackboard SafeAssignment,Turnitin
- Plickers
- Prezi
- Trello -maybe
- TeachersKit
- Wikinotes
- Zipgrade
- Schoology
Workshop Location and Time
- Monday 19 March 8:30 am -3:30 pm at Shuwaikh Campus at the Conference Center
