Sage on the Stage or

1. Sage on the Stage or Guide on the Side?

2. Technology in higher education • Technology is more than using a power point in your presentation • This power point does help the visual learners read as I speak • Is this learning? • Is this education?

3. Removing the Sage on the Stage • Integrating various methods of learning can be easily resolved by using technology in a student-centered approach. • Our students are made up of members from the GenX and Millennial Generations • They are as familiar with technology as we were with a telephone as we grew up.

4. Our Students • Our students are familiar with email • Chat rooms • Keyboards—even if they don’t use proper typing techniques • Many know or have observed the use of spreadsheets, computer graphics, ipods, digital imagery.

5. Preparing their lives • Today’s workforce requires the ability to apply technology in various work situations. • Students must have more than memorized facts from us when they graduate from college. • How do we teach them to think?

6. Benjamin Bloom • Bloom’s taxonomy is the most widely used and accepted taxonomy of cognitive development • Bloom’s taxonomy describes each level of the thinking process—forming an hierarchy

7. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Knowledge—Recall information • Comprehension—Understand the meaning, translation and interpretation of instructions and problems. • Application—Uses a concept into a novel application in the classroom • Analysis—separates concepts into components so that the organizational structure may be understood.

8. Bloom’s Taxonomy cont. • Synthesis—Builds a structure or pattern from various parts of information to create a new meaning or structure • Evaluation—Makes a judgment about the value of the ideas or material • Bloom describes 3 domains for learning---cognitive, affective, and psychomotor

9. Using technology • Adding technology into your lesson plan and using Bloom’s taxonomy, students will learn and explore our teaching disciplines better and more fully. • Be aware of Bloom’s taxonomy when planning lesson plans where you are the “Guide on the Side” • Do this so students utilize more than knowledge and comprehension thinking skills

10. Student-Centered instruction • Puts the learning on the student • No longer about what the teacher knows and understands, but what the student knows and understands. • Emphasizes “understanding” one’s world! • Requires active processes and manipulation of information

11. Students strive • Students strive to reduce the discrepancy of what is known and what is observed • This forces a motivation to develop new understanding • Knowledge is refined through self- and others (peers) for testing their understanding. • Students working in groups will test their own thinking and understanding compared to others around them.

12. Using Computers • Should be used as a TOOL • AND NOT as a delivery method!!! • Computers and other technology should be used for students to experience learning using HIGHER Level thinking Skills. What are those from Bloom? • Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation

13. Teacher’s Time • Forming a lesson plan utilizing one of the following techniques requires extra planning time; HOWEVER, the lesson plan can be re-used. Once made, it’s made and can be adjusted in following semesters. • Teachers can then work with individuals in the classroom more efficiently while ALL students are learning utilizing their higher levels of thinking!!

14. Two Forms of Integration • There are two basic forms of designing a lesson plan to utilize technology for deeper learning for our students • The NTeQ model and the Webquest model. Advantages: • Using National, State, and College standards and objectives allows a teacher to design lessons that are focused on the course’s objectives.

15. Advantages, cont. • The assessment/evaluation of the project is clearly related to the lesson objective. • Lesson activities are defined from verbs using Bloom’s taxonomy and clear expectations for task • The Process of accomplishing the task is clearly stated in order for students to follow.

16. Your Students • If you are teaching by lecture and power point, you are now experiencing what your students are feeling in your classroom!! • Let’s get pro-active! • I have a Webquest for you to learn this information on Blackboard. I will get you into one of my courses and individually, and with a team assignment, you will follow the designed webquest. WE will share our information at the end of this session.