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Changing Minds One Curriculum at a Time. Agenda. Us Them IT (instructional technology) Each One Teach One. Please raise your hand if you have been teaching 0 - 5 years. Please raise your hand if you have been teaching 6 - 10 years.
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Agenda • Us • Them • IT (instructional technology) • Each One Teach One
Please raise your hand ifyou have been teaching 6 - 10 years
Please raise your hand ifyou have been teaching 11 - 20 years
Please raise your hand ifyou have been teaching 20 or more years
Please raise your hand if you left one career to become a teacher
Please raise your hand if you teach more than 4 different courses most semesters
Please raise your hand ifyou have had 2 or more formal courses in education
Please raise your hand if you teach through distance learning.
Please raise your hand if you teach classes which are required core courses for any associate’s degree
Please raise your hand if you are able to describe your philosophy or approach to teaching
Please raise your hand if your arm is getting sore and you want me to stop the interrogation
Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that WorksPitler, Hubbell, Kuhn, Malenoski, (2007)
Effective teaching activities pp. 6 - 9
Nine Categories of Instructional Strategies that Affect Student Achievement Can you organize them from most to least effective?
A neuroscientist looks at the effects of technology on the brain
The Pew Internet & American Life ProjectiBrainby Gary Small, M.D. & Gigi Vorgan(p. 91-92)
Continuous partial attentionThis is not the same as multitasking. Multitasking shares the focus or attention whereas continuous partial attention uses peripheral senses. Continuous partial attention leads to the “digital fog” actually altering brain chemistry. (p. 18)
Lack of social interaction thwarts brain developmentpp. 116, 184-186
Lack of social interaction thwarts brain development • Social interactions develop the frontal lobe • This area is also involved in memory and impulse control Experiment of 15 year old and 30 year old…
Project-based learning • Authentic, or real world problems • Student centered • Agency and consequentiality • Creativity • Diverse learners friendly
EachOneTeachOne http://eachoneteachoneterps.wikispaces.com/Welcome+to+EachOneTeachOne
Explore the use of project-based learning and technology to meet the core objectives required by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Thank you Katrieva Munroe-Jones, the Howard College eLearning Department, and all those who helped make this conference possible.