1. Using new technologies in the HE
classroom
Steve Saffhill, Advisor
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RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
2. Summary
• The future workforce
• The learners’ potential
• Knowing what your learners know
• Working together
• Critical thinking
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4. The learners’ journey
Raw materials Processing Final product
Learners
Learning Skilled
with Skills
Experience Workforce
and Abilities
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5. Skilled workforce:
the future of British industry
Government objectives
– Creative
– Social mobility
– “Wants industry to work together and with learning
organisations to improve productivity and efficiency”
– “Many of our students’ future jobs will involve some level
of crowdsourcing or collaboration”
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7. Changes in commerce
99% of 15-24 YO have a mobile phone
Rural broadband penetration is 84% (OFCOM,
Jan 2012)
Smartphone ownership doubles from 2011-2012
Half of internet access was via mobile (Oct 2011)
Quarter of mobile users access news content
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8. What’s in your learners’ pocket?
Mobile device usage
Benefit or distraction?
Follow them and lead them
9. Common issues with learning
Diagnostic assessment
Gathering evidence
Working together
Critical thinking
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10. It is hard to continually assess what
learners know and understand
Diagnostics
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33. Pull
Getting people to go to the VLE
– Referring to it (verbally, footer)
– URL shortener
– QR codes
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bit.ly/he-in-fe
34. Stick
Empower them
Mix it up with interactivity
– A place for them to test themselves
– A place to test their new knowledge
– A place to share
36. Finally
• a technical business of • a complex pursuit of
well-managed fitting a culture to the
information processing needs of its members
• nor even simply a matter • and of fitting its
of applying ‘learning members and their ways
theories’ to the of knowing to the needs
classroom of the culture.
• or using the results of
subject-centred (Bruner, 1996 as cited by
‘achievement testing’. Coffield 2008)
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Notas del editor
From: http://www.toowaydirect.com/2012/01/new-ofcom-stats-show-huge-growth-in-online-shopping/Smartphone ownership almost doubled in the UK between February 2010 and August 2011 (up from 24% to 46%)The number of people using their mobiles to access the internet was also higher in the UK with nearly half (46%) of UK internet users using their phones to go online in October 2011.A quarter (25%) of UK mobile users accessed news content on their mobiles, significantly higher than in other European countries. This could be partly due to higher smartphone take-up and UK media and newspaper websites having dedicated mobile websites.
The rate of technological development is phenomenal. The majority of learners now come to the classroom with a small computer within their pocket.How should these be managed in the classroom?
Lower order thinking skills, Higher order thinking skills
http://www.itslifejimbutnotasweknowit.org.uk/files/Coffield_IfOnly.pdfJerome Bruner reminds us that ‘we are the only species that teaches in anysignificant way’ (1996: xi, original emphasis) and that, in treating teachersas a necessary evil, ‘we have probably alienated our most important ally inrenewal’ (ibid: 84).Forme, T & L is collaborative, reflective, purposeful, open-ended, lifelongand, above all, based on trusting relationships. Education, however, is abroader and more significant concept than T & L. Again, Bruner, for me,sums up the argument well:...education is not simply a technical business of well-managedinformation processing, nor even simply a matter of applying ‘learningtheories’ to the classroom or using the results of subject-centred‘achievement testing’. It is a complex pursuit of fitting a culture to theneeds of its members and of fitting its members and their ways ofknowing to the needs of the culture.