What is Academic Development – with a touch of tech

Presented by Anne OlsenAcademic Development Professional

Centre for Teaching Learning & Media NMMU

Anne-Mart.Olsen2@nmmu.ac.za @weirdsister_ann

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What is academic development?

A field within teaching and learning in higher education (Rowland, 2001).

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What is academic development?A Definition

… academic development is taken to mean practices designed to enhance the performance of an institution of higher education…

(Candy 1996: 17)

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Whose responsibility

is it?

How is academic development supported @ NMMU?

Centre for teaching, learning @ Media (CTLM)

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CTLM?http://www.nmmu.ac.za/www/media/Store/images/About%20NMMU/Photos,%20videos%20and%20publications/Photos/North%20Campus/Multi-Media-Teaching.jpg

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Teaching academic development

Student academic development

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The purpose of academic development

STUDENT SUCCESS

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Co-responsibility

Student success website: http://tal.nmmu.ac.za/

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A new approach to teaching & learning

@weirdsister_ann

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The history of technology in education

It’s time to shift our thinking from

the old model of teachingto a new model of learning

Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown

A new culture of learning

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Our students are no longer little versions of us…

We need to look beyond or 20th century knowledge or training to guide them…

When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems… while being continually assessed … and often working collaboratively.

~ Graham Brown-Martin

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We are family http://pro.corbis.com

From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

Wii are family!

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From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

http://chriswondra.com/2007/12/17/paradigm-shift-ahead-learning-just-got-heroic/

… using technologies that have not been invented yet in order to solve problems we

don’t even know are problems yet - Shift happens 2012

This is especially true for education.

Once upon a time the book revolutionised

education… now?

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Todays' students are no longer the people our education system was designed to teach

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We learn by teaching

From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

We shouldn't expect

"out of the box" thinking

when we only employ

"in the box" teaching. Tom Whitby

From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill AcademyAvailable at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548

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From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill AcademyAvailable at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548

New tools of

the trade

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Don’t disregard chalk and talk.

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In a hunting culture, kids play with bows and arrows. In an information society, they play with information.

~Henry Jenkins

A magazine is an i-pad that doesn’t work.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see

every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill AcademyAvailable at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548

Create a Digital Classroomhttp://www.schooltube.com/channel/edmodo/

http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/09/back-to-school-best-quotes-about-education-and-school-days/teaching-today-amazing-7-3/

BYOD – Bring your own deviceGo mobile

Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they cannot fully participate in their culture of communication

~Peter Veomans

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...they are distracting and disruptive. The phone becomes

the focus of attention,inappropriate images/videos can

be taken and sent, leading to invasion of privacy and loss of

teacher control!

Mobile phones should be banned because...

Objections from Educators

From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

BYOD - Personal technologies

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When we ban young people from using their mobile devices, we prevent them from communicating and

learning in ways that are meaningful to them.

From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

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Cell phone Myths and Potentials

• Too solitary

• Irresponsible / inappropriate use

• Theft• Knowledge with the

teacher• Loss of control

• Leverage device and collaborative culture

• Teachers digital citizenship

• Keep on person• Willingness to learn

from the students• Use to maintain control

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Research

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In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves

beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists…. Eric Hoffer

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