Date post: | 05-Dec-2014 |
Category: |
Education |
Upload: | scott-moore |
View: | 1,182 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Working with my studentsDr. Scott Moore
Business Information Technology, Associate Professor
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
BBA Program Faculty Director
[email protected] / http://www.umich.edu/~samoore/
1
Last summer I was revising
a class that I teach
2
BIT330
I teach undergraduate
business students
3
I had lost my way
4
Students wanted to pay more
attention to their email and the Web
than to me and my lecture.
5
I wanted to teach with, and
learn with, my students
6
I needed to work with them
instead of against them
7
I applied a few novel ideas
8
Student
learning
Collaboration-focused
technology
Student
collaboration
Personal
motivation
Students as
scientists
Trust their
attendance
Grading
policies
Use of
class time
Class time was definitely
for doing and interacting
9
10
Almost every class period...
A little of this A lot of this
11
Learning details were left for
exercises & out-of-class activities
Class technology enabled
collaboration & sharing
12
I could share with them
13
They could share with me
and each other
14
I taught them to be scientists
15
Gather data
Evaluate data
Analyze the data
Summarize the data
Write & publish results
We did an experiment at the
beginning of the semester as a class
16
We repeated this process of data
gathering and analysis throughout
the semester
17
I gave them the opportunity to work
on something personally important
18
Voice
Motivation
Collaboration
I allowed (and encouraged) them
to teach me and other students
19
• An empowering purpose
• Projects are a teaching
opportunity
• Blogs are a teaching
opportunity
• Industry updates gave each
student an opportunity to be
the expert
20 Project as a teaching opportunity
21 Blog as a teaching opportunity
22 Student as “industry expert”
I encouraged (and
supported) collaboration
23
I trusted them to come (or
not) to class
24
This was what I wanted to see
25
Everything was on the Web so I
had to make classtime worthwhile
26
The assignments provided
many opportunities for analysis
27
Informs
Insight
Personal reaction
Context & links
Length & detail
BlogsProjects
Industry updates
Notes
Experiment
write-up
Test
All of these
required
writing,
analysis, &
evaluation
Was the overall experience with
the class positive?
28
• Student learning
! Blogs
! Projects
! Test scores
• Attendance
• Evaluations
• Professor learning
I had lost my way
29
I needed to work with them
instead of against them
30
By the end of the semester, it was
apparent that more students learned
more than in previous classes
31