The presentation from the

1. Using new technologies in the HE
classroom
Steve Saffhill, Advisor
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www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastmidlands November 22, 2012 | slide 1
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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3. Stages of manufacturing
Raw Final
Processing
materials product
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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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6. Learners with great skills and abilities
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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
– http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=272

11. Quiz Show
Question and Answer
Samples and Techniques

12. Declan Donnelly’s family is Irish

13. What part of Newcastle was Byker
Grove based in?
Jarrow
Wallsend
Byker
Grove
Sunderland

14. Diagnostics
November 22, 2012 | slide 14

15. Socrative
Socrative November 22, 2012 | slide 15

16. Other diagnostic ideas
www.classtools.net
http://www.stixy.com/guest/157028
http://www.ibrainstormapp.com/

17. Keeping your powerpoint slides fresh
 Using twitter to get the most up to date news

18. Twitter

19. Gathering evidence
Apps November 22, 2012 | slide 19

20. Evernote
November 22, 2012 | slide 20

21. Images and video
Skitch
Coach’s Eye
Images and video November 22, 2012 | slide 21

22. Moodle (2.1)
Moodle 2.1 November 22, 2012 | slide 22

23. Bloom’s Taxonomy
Creating
HOTS
Evaluating
Analysing
to
Applying
LOTS
Understanding
Remembering

24. A digital taxonomy

26. Bloom’s iPad taxonomy

27. Going from LOTS to HOTS
 SMART Boards
 Mindmaps/argument maps
 Coaching instead of teaching
 Text chat

28. Manufacturing of reflective evidence
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29. Video
150 Video tools
November 22, 2012 | slide 29

31. Argument mapping
 A claim supported by a reason is called a
contention

32. Improving retention and achievement:
use your VLE
 It’s a powerpoint dumping ground!

33. Pull
 Getting people to go to the VLE
– Referring to it (verbally, footer)
– URL shortener
– QR codes
From
http://moodle.rsc-
em.ac.uk/course/view.ph
p?id=272
to
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

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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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