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Transforming Teaching with Technology: A Learning Community

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Transforming Teaching with Technology: A Learning Community

 

Primary Presenter: Andrew Bonham

Co-Presenters: Maria Akrabouva, John Ethier, Alexandra Hutto, Cheryl King, Mikkilynn Olmsted, and Jean Rother

Organization: Metropolitan State University of Denver

Role: Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Track: Technology Round-Up

Level: For Mere Mortals 

 

Abstract: At Metropolitan State University of Denver a varied group of about a dozen faculty formed a learning community focused on Transforming Teaching with Technology. Together we researched teaching techniques that rely on technology and shared our results. Community members then applied one of the techniques to a course in spring 2012. Our presentation will address two themes: The learning community experience, and the particulars of the various teaching techniques.

 

Bio: I am an avid user of technology in the classroom, and a advocate for evidence-based teaching of all kinds. I don't think technology is a silver-bullet, but when paired with research-based pedagogies, technology offers learning opportunities that are truly new. I have given talks on the subject of teaching and technology to hundreds of faculty at local, regional and national events. I have won teaching awards at both institutions at which I have taught.

 

Description: A multi-disciplinary group of faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver spent the 2011-2012 academic year researching and implementing technology through active learner-centered pedagogy. The faculty learning community (FLC) established three objectives: 1) explore how best to integrate technology into classes in classes of any format, 2) approach technology through the scholarship of teaching and learning, and 3) foster a supportive professional environment in which to discuss these new approaches. Each instructor adapted some form of technology to create student-centered lessons. As a community, we learned from each other how technology can improve student learning. Presentation overview: - Description and discussion of the structure of the faculty learning community, along with its strengths and shortcomings. - Description and discussion of some of the teaching technologies that were implemented, along with the highlights and pitfalls in using these for the first time. Specific teaching technologies: - Just in Time Teaching (applied in nursing): Students completed pre-class online activities, resulting in better-prepared students and class time that instructors sculpted around student needs. - Flipped classrooms (applied in chemistry and mathematics): Students watched instructor-produced online lectures and laboratory videos, and then applied the explanations to in-class worksheets and quizzes. - Synchronous group chats (applied in marketing): Online marketing students participated in Blackboard synchronous focus group chats to replicate real-world product focus groups. - Video essays (applied in English composition): Students created video essays and transported written compositional components and rhetorical structures to audio and visual mediums. - Multimodal assignments (applied in a foreign language course): Students created multimodal assignments with Web 2.0 tools (blogs, magazines and comics), contributing to classroom instruction of the target language. Presentation outcomes: Attendees will leave with ideas about how to give and receive support in transforming teaching and with concrete examples of teaching technologies they could implement themselves.

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