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A Conversation with the LamarAcademic Technology Committee
An Overview of Technology-enabled 21st Century Learning Spaces
Lamar Ed Tech Leadership FacultyDr. Kay Abernathy, Dr. Sheryl Abshire, Dr. Cindy Cummings, Dr. Diane Mason
SCALE-UP Model - Student-centered Active Learning Environment with Up-side Down Pedagogies
Designs for state-of-the-art learning studios, teaching methods, and instructional materials that are based on more than a decade of discipline-based education research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUFud6MoHMo
University Models
Concept Lab vs. Lecture
http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/MinnVideo/MinnVideo.html According to Dr. Robin Wright, University of Minnesota:
“What the movie doesn't show is the overall course philosophy. We leave the students to do the lower levels of Blooms on their own, by reading the text with study questions. Then in class we do application and analysis questions in teams. And finally, there are large scale team projects for synthesis & evaluation. The students are a bit grumbly, but the quality of their work is really amazing. They are really creative, out of the box thinkers, when given a chance."
University Models
Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) are designed to foster interactive, flexible, student-centered learning experiences, and operate using central teaching stations and student-provided laptops.
ALCs feature: A 360-degree glass-surface marker board. Multiple flat-panel display projection systems. Round tables that accommodate nine students each. A centered teaching station that allows selection and display
of table-specific information. Transitions to online learning.
Active Learning Classroom Features
ALCs Make New Classroom Interactions Possible and Offer:
Cooperative learning environments that encourage student collaboration and peer teaching.
Technology that allows students to easily present work for review by peers and instructors.
Furniture designed to facilitate small-group work.
The ability for instructors to interactively coach students during activities.
New options for student interaction and class structure.
Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) Model
Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) Model Sites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
To use class time for doing and interacting, not sitting and listening
To use class technology to support collaboration and sharing
To teach students to think like scientists -incorporates a process of discovery throughout the semester.
Why Do We Need ALCs?
Student Transitions
• Single tasks to multitasking • Text to pictures, sound, and video• Linear, logical, sequential to random
access• Independent and individual to interactive
collaborative networked• Learning space moves from inside the
classroom to inside and outside the classroom.
Rigorous evaluations of learning have been conducted in parallel with the curriculum development and classroom design efforts.
Besides hundreds of hours of classroom video and audio recordings, different schools have conducted numerous interviews and focus groups, conducted many conceptual learning assessments (using nationally-recognized instruments in a pretest/posttest protocol), and collected portfolios of student work.
NC State has data comparing nearly 16,000 traditional and SCALE-UP students taking physics.
How Do You Know it Works?
Their findings can be summarized as the following: Students' ability to solve problems is improved. Their conceptual understanding is increased. Their attitudes are better. Failure rates (especially for women and minorities)
are drastically reduced. “At risk" students do better in later courses. Beichner, R. J., Saul, J. M., Abbott, D. S., Morse, J. J., Deardorff, D. L., Allain, R. J., Bonham, S. W., Dancy, M. H. Risley, J.S. (2007). The Student-Centered Activities for Laerge Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) Project. NC Scale-up Researchhttp://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=4517
How Do You Know it Works?
Recommended Action Items
Further research the Active Learning Classrooms concept.
Investigate other University and/or Department efforts.
Create a subcommittee to design a local research initiative plan and a presentation to share with Academic Technology Committee and University administration.
Resources
http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/faculty/Thurnau/ThurnauVideos.php
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/faculty/Thurnau/Prof_Polk_Summary.pdf
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/faculty/Thurnau/Prof_Moore_Summary.pdf
Teaching the 21st Century Learnerhttp://depd.wisc.edu/series/06_4168.pdf
NC Scale-up Researchhttp://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=4517
Closing
Questions?
Comments?
College of Education and Human Development
Department of Educational Leadership
Dean Hollis Lowery-Moore
Dr. Steve Jenkins, Department Chair
Dr. L. Kay Abernathy - [email protected] Dr. Diane Mason - [email protected] Dr. Cynthia Cummings - [email protected] Dr. Sheryl Abshire - [email protected]
http://tinyurl.com/crnldw6
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