Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 18, 2023 | slide 1RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

Using new technologies in the HE classroomSteve Saffhill, Advisor

www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastmidlands

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Summary

• The future workforce• The learners’ potential• Knowing what your learners know• Working together• Critical thinking

Raw materials Processing Final

product

Stages of manufacturing

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Raw materials Processing Final product

The learners’ journey

Learners with Skills

and Abilities

Learning Experience

Skilled Workforce

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Skilled workforce:the future of British industry

Government objectives– Creative

– Social mobility

– “Wants industry to work together and with learning organisations to improve productivity and efficiency”

– “Many of our students’ future jobs will involve some level of crowdsourcing or collaboration”

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Learners with great skills and abilities

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Changes in commerce

99% of 15-24 YO have a mobile phone Rural broadband penetration is 84% (OFCOM, Jan

2012) Smartphone ownership doubles from 2011-2012 Half of internet access was via mobile (Oct 2011) Quarter of mobile users access news content

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What’s in your learners’ pocket?

Mobile device usage Benefit or distraction? Follow them and lead them

Common issues with learning

Diagnostic assessment Gathering evidence Working together Critical thinking

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It is hard to continually assess what learners know and understand

Diagnostics– http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=272

Quiz Show

Question and Answer

Samples and Techniques

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

Declan Donnelly’s family is Irish

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

What part of Newcastle was Byker Grove based in?

Sunderland

Grove

Jarrow

Wallsend

Byker

Diagnostics

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Socrative April 18, 2023 | slide 15

Socrative

Other diagnostic ideas

www.classtools.net

http://www.stixy.com/guest/157028

http://www.ibrainstormapp.com/

Keeping your powerpoint slides fresh

Using twitter to get the most up to date news

Twitter

Apps April 18, 2023 | slide 19

Gathering evidence

Evernote

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Images and video April 18, 2023 | slide 21

Images and video

Coach’s Eye

Skitch

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Moodle (2.1)

Bloom’s TaxonomyLO

TS

to

H

OT

S

Creating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

A digital taxonomy

Bloom’s iPad taxonomy

Going from LOTS to HOTS

SMART Boards Mindmaps/argument maps Coaching instead of teaching Text chat

Manufacturing of reflective evidence

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Video

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150 Video tools

BecauseHowever

Yet

POWER WORDS

Argument mapping

Claim

Reason

There should be lots of stars in the

Apollo pictures

If we go out on a clear night and look up, we see many

stars

A claim supported by a reason is called a contention

Improving retention and achievement:use your VLE

It’s a powerpoint dumping ground!

Pull Stick

Pull

Getting people to go to the VLE– Referring to it (verbally, footer)– URL shortener– QR codes

From

to

http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=272

bit.ly/he-in-fe

Stick

Empower them Mix it up with interactivity

– A place for them to test themselves– A place to test their new knowledge– A place to share

EMPOWER!

Help and advice: Screen recording

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“VLE Before Me”

screenr.com ShowMe App for iPad

Finally

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• a technical business of well-managed information processing

• nor even simply a matter of applying ‘learning theories’ to the classroom

• or using the results of subject-centred ‘achievement testing’.

• a complex pursuit of fitting a culture to the needs of its members

• and of fitting its members and their ways of knowing to the needs of the culture.

(Bruner, 1996 as cited by Coffield 2008)

Education is not Education is