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During this session, Dr. Mark Ciampa, Ph.D., Western Kentucky University, discussed the impactful forces changing the field of education. Participants learned not only strategies and techniques that can be used to engage your entire class, but also how to manage disengagement and thereby create opportunities for learning. The way our new technology solution, MindTap, which is a personal learning experience, can address the diversity within your class – helping you appeal to all the students on your roster were also discussed. Participants left with inventive new ideas for teaching your course that you can immediately implement into your classroom!
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Changes in Education & Managing
Disengagement
Dr. Mark CiampaWestern Kentucky University
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Changes in Education & Managing Disengagement
Do you find it challenging to engage your students?
Are you looking for new ways to implement digital learning into your classroom?
This discussion is about impactful forces changing the field of education
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Changes in Education & Managing Disengagement
Strategies and techniques that can be used to engage your entire class
How to manage disengagement
Create opportunities for learning
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Agenda Characteristics of today’s
students New approaches to
teaching and learning Technology tools that can
address disengagement MindTap personal learning
tool
Changes in Education & Managing
Disengagement
Characteristics of Today’s Students
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Generation On a Tightrope
Levine, A., & Dean, D. (2012). Generation on a tightrope: A portrait of today’s college students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Uses surveys of 5,000 students and college officials from 270 diverse schools, plus interviews from campus visits and other data
Characterize today’s college students as confounded by a series of contradictions
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Contradictions Coming of age in deepest recession in
70 years—yet eager for same economic opportunities as parents
In a hurry to be grownups—but more dependent on their parents than any modern generation
Aspire to be global citizens—but ignorant of other cultures
Always in touch electronically—yet hampered in face-to-face communication
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Contradictions Most importantly, they are digital
natives—but maneuvering in an analog world
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Life-Defining Moments
1. The advent of digital culture
2. The economic downturn
3. 9/114. The election of
President Obama
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General Characteristics
Much more pragmatic Deal with diversity better than any
generation before them Very optimistic about their
personal futures but almost equally pessimistic about the future of the country
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General Characteristics
Great fear of failure: ”This is a generation that was not allowed to skin their knees.”
Think very highly of their abilities Received awards and applause for
everything they did: most improved Mini-Kicker dribbler to best Suzuki violin player with a mother named “Susan”
Expect to continue to receive accolades
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Grade Inflation This expectation of accolades
reinforced by grade inflation 41% have average grades of A- or
higher (7% in 1969) 9% have grades of C or less (25%
in 1969) 45% have taken remedial courses 60% say their grades “understate
the true quality of my work”
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Parents 41% text, e-mail, call or visit their
parents at least daily (19% do 3+ times per day)
27% asked parents to intervene in problems with professors or employers
Students who say have heroes most often name their parents as their heroes
“Biggest change on campus since 2001 is parent involvement–sometimes intrusion–on campus,” say administrators
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Parents Mother #1 called 15 times in one
afternoon, all the way up to the president, when her son had trouble with his wireless connection
Mother #2 complained that when assigning roommates school should also match the parents to ensure “other mother is of the same culture I am so we can support each other”
Mother #3 told Dean’s Office her son was too busy to meet with the dean but “she would do so on his behalf”
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Technology Technology defines these students Extremely connected yet isolated:
have 24/7 contact with friends & family by social media—but only 1 out of 3 attend monthly college social/community event
Connectedness/isolation contradiction results in weak interpersonal skills, face-to-face communication skills, problem-solving skills
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Technology Result is an easily distracted
generation with short attention spans
Students accustomed finding quick answers with few clicks; likely to give up when cannot find easy answer
Indirect evidence that technology can affect behavior because of heavy stimulation and rapid shifts in attention
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Practical Advice Because short attention spans
teachers must work harder to capture and hold students’ attention
Teachers should focus on developing Critical thinking skills Creativity Continuous learning
Need to deal with the fast-changing nature of knowledge and technology
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Practical Advice Must change how teach digital
natives Use calendars, locations,
pedagogies, and learning materials consistent with ways students learn
Brick campuses emphasize enriching, expediting, expanding and supplementing face-to-face education with enhanced instruction and expanded services and resources
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Disengagement
New Approaches To Teaching and Learning
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Flipped Classroom
A reversed teaching model Delivers core instruction outside
class through online interactive material
Moves homework into the classroom
Students can ask questions and work through problems with guidance of teachers and support of their peers
Create a more collaborative learning environment
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Flipped Classroom
Short video lectures are viewed by students outside class
Video lectures either created by instructor online or selected from an online repository (massive open online course or MOOC)
In-class time is devoted to exercises, projects, discussions
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Flipped Classroom
“Repurposing class time into workshop”
Students can ask about lecture content, test skills in applying knowledge, and interact with one another in hands-on activities
During class sessions instructors function as coach/advisor, assisting students in individual inquiry or collaborative effort
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Outside Classroom
Students view multiple lectures of 5-7 minutes with online assessment to test what students have learned
Immediate feedback and ability to rerun lecture segments may help clarify points of confusion
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Inside Classroom
Instructors become on-site experts May lead in-class discussion Could organize students into ad
hoc workgroup to solve a problem that several are struggling to understand
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Challenges An easy model to get wrong Requires careful preparation
(recording lectures, coordinating inside/outside)
Students must understand model and be motivated to prepare for class
Because approach is radical change in class dynamic, most instructors start with only a few elements of flipped model in a course
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Challenges Students accustomed to focusing
on lectures so skip in-class activities
Students may complain about loss of live lectures, especially when feel assigned videos available to anyone online
Students may question what tuition brings them that they could not have gotten by surfing the Web.
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Disengagement
Technology Tools That Can Address Disengagement
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Poll Everywhere
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“Raise your hand if . . .”
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Poll Everywhere
Live audience feedback Replacement of “clickers” Vote with different tools
Desktop or laptop computer Portable device (tablet, smartphone, dumb
phone) Vole in different ways
Web page Embeddable voting widget Smartphone Web browser Dumb phone text message Twitter
How To Vote via Texting
1. Standard texting rates only 2. No access to phone number
How To Vote via PollEv.com
How To Vote via Twitter
1. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do2. Since @poll is the first word, your followers will not receive this tweet
Poll Everywhere
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Poll Everywhere #1
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Poll Everywhere #1
Is the sun shining today at your school
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Poll Everywhere #2
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Poll Everywhere #2
Would you use Poll Everywhere in your classroom?
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Poll Everywhere #3
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Poll Everywhere #4
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Bubble Browser
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Evernote Evernote tool for creating text, audio,
and image-based notes that live in the cloud
Capture anything - Save ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see
Access anywhere - Evernote works with any computer, phone and mobile device
Find things fast - Search by keyword, tag or printed and handwritten text inside images
Can be difficult to actually browse through notes, especially the older ones
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Bubble Browser
Way to explore Evernote notes Bubble Browser displays information in
visual form, using shapes and colors instead of pure text
Tags, notebooks and dates are presented as color bubbles to show what’s most important in every given context
Data from notes creates interactive infographic
Can browse through notes and see how “external brain” is structured!
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Bubble Browser
Focus on bubbles Multiple tiers of bubbles
Notebooks, Tags, and Creation Dates
Drill through relevant subcategories for each one
Bubbles are a different size depending on the number of notes they contain
Click on bubble to display notes that meet that filter
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Bubble Browser
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Bubble Browser
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Bubble Browser
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Link-Time
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Link-Time Task & Time Organizing Portal for
Students Differences in course delivery
methods, requirements, assignment/assessment types, and instructor styles
All students have Outlook email accounts that also give access to Microsoft’s SkyDrive and OneNote at no additional cost
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Link-Time Tool to create and manage a
college student’s academic life through time/task management portal
Fully customizable for each student Accessed and used both through a
computer and through mobile devices
Ryan Guffy, Western Kentucky University
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Link-Time
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Link-Time
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Link-Time
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QR Codes
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QR Codes Modern version of answers being
written in the back of the book Placing answers to questions
online and linking with QR codes, students can attempt their own solutions before using the code to review the correct answer
Create codes online
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QR Codes SquareTag Create QR codes then configure
app on online SquareTag server Affix QR code to gas cap of car When scanned, form appears Record price, gallons, odometer SquareTag app analyze data and
draw graph of fuel usage
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Jing
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Jing Camtasia Studio – Video
recording and screen editing (high end)
Snagit – Capture images and video, add video effects (medium level)
Jing - Capture screen videos of computer screen (low end)
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Jing Select any window or region to
capture, mark up your screenshot with a text box, arrow, highlight or picture caption
“Record what you do” Select window/region to record to
capture everything that happens in that area
Jing videos are limited to 5 minutes.
Changes in Education & Managing
Disengagement
Questions & Comments? Dr. Mark Ciampa
Western Kentucky University
