Post on 22-Dec-2015
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Beyond “Chalk and Talk”: Using Tablet PCs to Engage
Students and Improve Student Understanding
Steven A. WolfmanComputer Science
University of British Columbia
w/the Presenter teams at UW, UCSD, & UBC
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~wolf/work/
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My Stated Goal
Get you interested in Classroom Presenter and excited about the idea of (re)designing
instructional technologies for your own needs.
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My Secret Agenda
Get you to develop the next great instructional technology
(so I can use it for my students).
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Talk Format
• Quick overview of a developing technology
• Classroom Presenter design discussion
• Next steps for Classroom Presenter
• Next steps for you
Throughout this talk, I’ll be using Classroom Presenter.
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Least Valuable Instructional Technology
What is the least valuable technology for your students’ learning?
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Most Promising Technology
What is the most promising, underutilized technology for your students’ learning?
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Study of a Failing Technology: Textbooks
My students don’t read the textbook.(Can you believe it?!)
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Using Textbook Technology Effectively
How do I use textbooks effectively?
I interrogate them.
How can I get students to use them effectively?
Change the process so that students learn by practice to interrogate the book.
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Reclaiming Textbook Technology
Every week, students submit a question, with no restrictions except that it must: be their own, be in their own handwriting, and include the referenced page # of the book.
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Reclaiming Textbook Technology… continued
Great idea! Now you have 80 questions…
Instructional technologies develop with real use!
Our solution: select a random subset of 10 (plus any I specifically want to answer); post answers to a new newsgroup dedicated to weekly reading questions.
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How to Develop Classroom Presenter
source of greatest
pain
availabletechnology
structuredobservation
innovations of practice
prior and related work
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Early Presenter
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availabletechnology
structuredobservation
innovations of practice
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Source of Greatest Pain
What’s wrong with PowerPoint?
Take your PowerPoint pain, add tablets, and…
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“Separation of Views”
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availabletechnology
structuredobservation
innovations of practice
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(Re)Building the User Interface and Social Processes
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Scrolling in Practice
Based on logs of dozens of hours:Almost no intentional scrolling…
MUCH accidental scrolling.
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Explain-and-Erase
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• Tousan buses inaro
• Nojo dose id trux
• Summit gesan summit dux
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Student Submissions[Simon, Anderson, Hoyer, Su, …]
source of greatest
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structuredobservation
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Why the Technology Is Key Gives instructor instant access to content
from a broad range of students … not just from the few vocal students Increases instructor’s awareness of student ideas
Enables instructor to immediately integrate student content into the lecture discussion Using actual examples of student work improves
feedback Gives students a stake in constructing new
knowledge Public display becomes a medium for sharing ideas
Doing all this anonymously
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Ubiquitous P & P-on-Paper[Wilkerson, Griswold, Simon & Lim,…]
source of greatest
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structuredobservation
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How to Develop Classroom Presenter
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structuredobservation
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Developing your Technology
How can you get involved in developing instructional technologies?
References:Contact info
Steve Wolfman (wolf@cs.ubc.ca) PoP, CPRichard Anderson (anderson@cs.washington.edu) CP Beth Simon(esimon@cs.ucsd.edu) UP
Classroom Presenter-relatedDownloads: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/Papers: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/papers.html
Ubiquitous Presenterhttp://up.ucsd.edu
Acknowledgements:Thanks to the UW and UCSD educational technology teams.
Classroom Presenter is built on top of the ConferenceXP research platform. This work was supported in part by grants from External Research and Programs, Microsoft Research and from the Jade and NECTAR Projects.
Thanks to Jeff Forbes and Duke CS for bringing me and to Duke CIT for making this event happen!