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Teaching with Technologytechnology for the classes

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‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs.

What is technology?

Why doesn’t it work?

Features

Featur

Features

pick your 20

Social reasons why technology “doesn’t

work”

Language

Jargon

hashtag

firmware

wdsourc

heartbleedsnapchat

ook doge

petIoT

Digital Natives

Pidgin vs Creole

Are you a digital native? Are your students?

you can “immigrate” to the digital world

Access

Digital Divide

• Access to technology • Access to internet • Access to knowledge • Producers vs consumers

How’s your access?

How does your student’s access differ?

• from yours? • from each other?

http://www.pearsoned.com/research/prek-12-research/

•http://shar.es/PZwnu, re:fuel's 2013 College Explorer Study via globalnewswire

Takeaway: Tech is now embedded in

student’s lives, and in learning.

Takeaway: 15% of college students

do not own a laptop, 31% do not own a smartphone

Technology !

Mobile? Laptop?

Let’s make a list: What is Technology

Is technology the solution or the problem?

Chicken and Egg

Let’s make a list: What problems do you

want technology to solve

Students

Teacher

More Less

TECH USAGE

Lecture

note taking

blended

interactive exercises

Online courses

AppsApps

Let’s make a list: What scares you about

technology

HOW TO GET HELP WITH TECHNOLOGY

Don’t pretend to know

Also: Don’t expect students to know

(The Paradox of Familiarity)

Focus on the job you want technology to do

for you

Be prepared

Be prepared for failure

“ You're all fourth year CS

students. You should know that computers are

dumb and stupid and broken all the time.

Backups

Let’s make a list: How has technology

failed you?

Does it make you less likely to try it again?

Things we want Technology to do for us:

Student Engagement

Remote Engagement

Communication

Teaching concepts

Student Assessment

Learner-directed education

Customized lesson plans

Problems we have with technology:

intimidation

preparedness

distraction

murphy

Powerpoint

CS 280 Lecture 2.1: Communicating 63

Part 1: How to make a bad presentation

!Low-contrast text !Distracting backgrounds !44pt 32pt 24pt 18pt 12pt Small text

!Cheesy Animation that distracts from the point

!paragraphs that go on and on in fonts that are hard to read, animated in in such a way that you can't read the whole thing right away but must wait for it to slowly march in, and you are distracted trying to read it so you don't pay attention to what the person is saying, even though they are just going to read the paragraph to you as you read it to yourself making the presenter redundant.

!Sound effects

Break these rules where appropriate

but be intentional

World War II

Call of Duty (7) !

Medal of Honor (12) !

Battlefield (2) !

Wolfenstein (4) !

Brothers In Arms (6)

!!!!!!!!!

Hidden & Dangerous (2)

!Day of Defeat

(2) World War II Combat (2)

!Deadly Dozen

!Battlestrike (5)

!Silent Service Silent Service II

Mortyr Mortyr 2: ForEver

World War II Online D-‐Day:

Normandy WW2: GI

World War II Sniper: Call to

Victory

Airborne Troops:

Countdown to D-‐Day

Combat Elite: WWII

Paratroopers Sniper Art of

Victory Sniper Elite

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-‐45

History Channel's

ShootOut! The Game

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific

Hour of Victory 1944 D-‐Day: Operation Overlord Beyond

Normandy: Assignment

Berlin Airborne Hero D-‐day Frontline

Call of Duty (7) !

Medal of Honor (12) !

Battlefield (2) !

Wolfenstein (4) !

Brothers In Arms (6)

3 kinds of information: • your notes • slides • handout = paper

THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT

Edward Tufte: “Powerpoint is evil”

Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

At a minimum, a presentation format should do no harm. Yet the PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content. Thus PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play -very loud, very slow, and very simple.

The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience. !

edward tuft. “powerpoint is evil” wired, September 2003

Content is Key !

So let’s talk content

Animations

Find animations

Build animations

CS327/827 4. Psychoacoustics

Noise Floor, e.g. 70db

CS201 2.Digital Logic

Parallel Adder

•Put the full adder in a box:

X Y Cout Cin

X3 Y3 X2 Y2 X1 Y1 X0 Y0

X Y Cout Cin

S3 S2 S1 S0S4

Build videos, screencasts !

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=71DnOYeqJuM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Comparison_of_screencasting_software

Online content - images -youtube

sxc.hu

youtube.com/...www.

youtube.com/...www.ss

Aside: Copyright

Messy, difficult, possibly evil

Open education, open content

Powerpoint Alternative: !

Kinetic Typography

http://prezi.com/we3kauohxe-y/

cs110-2013/

Any questions about powerpoint and sharing

content?

Course/Content Management

Software/System

Learning Management

Software/System

Which CMS/LMS do you use?

CMS/LMS

•Notes

•Assignment activities

• Forum

•Wiki

•Group work

•Quiz

Problem: !

Finding and writing good quiz questions is hard

Problem: !

Once you put something online, it’s there forever

Solution 1: !

Prevent students from copying and distributing

quiz questions

Solution 2: !

Turn a problem into an opportunity

Students write their own quiz questions

Student questions

•Great way to study

•Competition between students

•best get picked for the “real” quiz

• advantage if yours get picked

•helps me see what people think is hard

In-Class CMS Quiz

In-Class Quiz

•Engage BYOD

• Instant feedback

•Discuss, as a class, difficult and easy questions

• can be used for polling, voting, whatever

•Can assign grades

In-Class Quiz

•Practice when it doesn’t matter

•Have paper copies

• Stagger quiz start

• I learned this the hard way

•plan for failure

CMS alternatives

Live Class Polls

•www.polleverywhere.com

•PollEv.com/drgrd

•people can respond online, or text their responses.

Quizzes / exams / surveys

•Google Docs

•Survey Monkey

Wikis / blogs

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services

•weebly

Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones

Using Laptops In Classrooms Lowers

Grades: Study !

http://www.yorku.ca/ncepeda/laptopFAQ.html

Laptops = bad

•Lecture in meterology

•half were asked to complete a series of unrelated tasks

•meant to mimic what distracted students might do

In Classrooms Lowers

Grades?

Using Laptops

In Classrooms Lowers

Grades!

Being Distracted

•Make sure students aren’t distracted

•Remember tufte?

•Give them something to use their devices for

• google it for me

• Shame

My Rules for BYOD

•If a phone rings in class, I answer it

•If I suspect you of doing something other than classwork on your laptop, I’ll plug it into the projector

Other things

•Cheating

•Online culture

•apps and social media

• twitter, facebook, linkedin

•A later talk in your program

Don’t forget your dongle!

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