How do you use technology to encourage student interaction? - 3 views
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Interaction Age
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seen additionally as something with which
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in which “information is
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and around which, people can interact.”
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Many of the technologies instructors use to teach have strong presentational elements to them—from providing online readings via Oncourse to creating PowerPoint slides
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How do we get students to interact with content?
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students often think of class content as some sort of inviolate Truth
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create and edit Wikipedia articles
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Joseph Pomerening had his Biology students use the touch-screen interface of these tablets to draw visual representations of their solutions to problems, which he could then project to the rest of the class to prompt a discussion of the concepts involved.
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Information was delivered via the technology, but the key learning occurred when the students interacted with it and around it during class.
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promote interaction with content by embedding quiz questions during a presentation.
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Answer correctly and the presentation moves forward, but answer incorrectly and the presentation can loop or jump to a segment that clarifies the ideas further.
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How do we get students to interact around content?
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Student response systems (or “clickers”)
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poll students for opinions on key issues.
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students engage in peer instruction and interact around the content: After presenting a concept, ask a comprehension question that takes some higher-level understanding. Have students submit an answer via their clickers, and then ask them to convince classmates near them of the correct response before re-submitting their answer.
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Matthew Stoltzfus demonstrates this technique in his TEDTALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-p8a1dsv5IXo
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Some great ideas. I have a colleague who teaches 4 classes of the same course. She creates groups across her classes so students are motivated to use the online forum for discussion since the students don't see each other in class.
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Students can use Twitter to create a “back channel” of comments and questions during a lecture, a potentially rich source of immediate feedback. Students can create their own videos on class content—not just as final projects, but as exploratory pieces—and provide feedback to one another using standard tools like YouTube. Students can create “mashups” that combine data from multiple sources to analyze and visualize disparate data. The most common examples involve overlaying content onto maps—say, the locations of local social service agencies versus local bus routes clients may need to reach them. Students can use wikis to create their own collaborative notes and study guides, using group participation to correct and enhance the guide as it grows from the students themselves. Similarly, you can “crowdsource” exams by asking students to generate potential questions, refining them through a tool like a wiki.
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This instructor tried google docs to encourage interaction but decided good old face-to-face worked best: flip charts and postits on the wall of his room - whatever works right! www.edutopia.org/blog/old-tech-teach-thinking--skills-raleigh-werberger
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How can technology help students add depth to their interactions with content and in their interactions with each other? Several ideas are presented in this article with some notes and links that I've added. I'd love to hear your ideas or what you or your colleagues' experiences using technology to aid student interactions with content and with each other have been!
