New Instructional Possibilities

New Instructional Possibilities

Kelly McEnanyAB Tech CC

November 4, [email protected]

Technology

Just push a button and get the class?

What do we want students to know?

How do we use technology to stay relevant?

“Millennials” and technology- “plugged in” generation

What does your classroom

look like?

Do we practice what we preach?

How we access information/read

has changed

Working with your LIBRARY

Conduct an audit of your holdings in Psych/Soc

Obtain a copy of all requests/purchases made by your department in the past 5 years.

Ask a Librarian to come to a department meeting to

demonstrate what resources are available for student

research/projects (credible sources?)

Invite Librarian to your class to help at beginning of research project

http://libguides.abtech.edu/behavioral

Library Roadshow

New textbook possibilities

Soomo Publishing

http://soomopublishing.com/sle/#analytics

customizable, inexpensive, interactive

Problem: plagiarism Can we solve it by setting up our classes differently?

Possibilities or a curse?

Spice it up (infusing websites into existing courses using LMS like Moodle, Bb, etc)

“Old” fashion in new ways (use of film, group projects, and presentations)

Why?Opportunity for critical thinking (new media literacies)

Higher on Bloom’s taxonomy (apply, create, collaborate)

Global possibilities

It’s fun to add fresh content, stay relevant

Not just a FAD

Publisher websites

Don’t forget these links- easiest. Need login to Instructor Resources, can point students there (to Student site) or create link in LMS to discuss/summarize/connect to chapter

http://ewhighered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078111641/student_view0/web_links.html

ASA and APA on course homepage

American Sociological Association

American Psychological Association

Connect the discipline info to occupations

American Community Survey (ACS)- infuse research gathering into a project (where to get data):

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

http://www.census.gov/people/

Topics include: Well-being, families, computer use

Census.gov

Steering students to

resources that make them THINKCharlie Rose: The Brain Series: http://www.charlierose.com/view/collection/10702

PBS “Inside the Teenage Brain” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/

Psychology Tests on BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml

Harvard Study of Adult Development: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/7439/

Open Yale Courses : http://oyc.yale.edu/

TED talks:http://www.ted.com/

they use it outside of our classrooms, so...

Add photo to a paper (i.e. homelessness)

Hiller Spires of NC State advocates use of “grassroots video” for GROUP projects:

to “construct and create”, not passive

inquiry learning kits: flip camera with built-in USB, headphones, 1GB flash drive

Rethinking the Presentation

www.prezi.com (beyond PPT)

Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/

Creating short films: http://www.cybersmartafrica.org/storytelling/gallery/ use campus IT department to help, can post these on course page, campus Youtube.com account, share with class

Using FilmStudents like watching movies, can be a way to create links to our studies

Can be used for Discussion Board post or applied project/assignment

SOC: http://sociologythroughdocumentaryfilm.pbworks.com/w/page/17194965/FrontPage

PSYCH: http://www.psychmovies.com/ (Movie Lists and Instructor Resources)

Snag Films http://www.snagfilms.com

http://learning.snagfilms.com/film/category/college

PBS.org Frontline (free! use Teacher Center tab) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ Topics for educators (sights in Singapore, music in Iceland):http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/educators/culture.html

Podcasts• iTunes U:

• http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

• Audacity (free program, messages to Online

students)

• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• This American Life: search by topic:

• http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

Creating connections

By directing students to particular websites, and exposing them to discipline specific information from sources that may be new to them, we can model good online research practices and media literacy

It can also prevent plagiarism if we keep changing the assignments and ask specific questions related to our chapters

www.wikispaces.com

Japanusacollaboration

global connections: do not have to be expensive

Skype- if a student/friend/colleague travels abroad

New possibilities for instruction and assessment

Learning THROUGH technology, not just FROM technology

Direct students to specific websites, helping them make connections between our courses and contemporary debates or issues

Use technology to create and collaborate (students) and spice up online and F2F classes (instructors)

Share with colleagues- campus/department sessions

Library! What do you have? Use it!