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Humanizing the Classroom with Technology

Dr. Thad Crews, Western Kentucky University

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DISCUSS

What was your

BEST class lesson ever?

DISCUSS

What is the hardest part

of flipping your class?

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RESEARCH

Question 1: “Think back on the face-to-face classes you’ve taken. What were some of the characteristics of the best ones? What was it that made some stand out in your mind?”

RESEARCH

Question 2: “Think back on the online classes you’ve taken. What were some of the characteristics of the best ones? What was it that made some stand out in your mind?”

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We have a growing collection of Content (books, SAM,

MOOCs, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.)

Chapter 3: Computers and Mobile Devices 3.1 Computers and Mobile Devices 3.2 Desktops and Mobile Computers 3.3 Servers 3.4 Supercomputers 3.5 Terminals 3.6 Cloud Computing 3.7 Mobile Devices 3.8 Game Devices 3.9 Embedded Computers 3.10 Putting It All Together 3.11 Ports and Connections 3.12 Protecting Hardware

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QUESTION

Have you heard the

phrase “Digital Native”?

What does it mean?

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Information Natives

(rather than Digital Natives)

Remember… ENIAC was digital

Students Have Information (or they know how to get it)

Students Need Wisdom

Students Have Information (or they know how to get it)

Students Need Wisdom

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61% of young consumers feel that video ads are too long and occur too often.Forrester, 2007

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“We need to prepareour kids for the 21 st

century economy.”

President Barack ObamaThe Blueprint for Change: Education

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/

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Source: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Facebook (November 12, 2009 at 6:28am)

a) Very Large things

b) Very Small things

c) Electromagnetic things

d) Genetic marker things

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A couple of idea• Distributed Human Monty Hall Experiment: Students perform the

Monty Hall problem, record their results, and then aggregate the results to investigate the base problem

• Team Review: Students make small groups (2-4) to discuss without NOTES OR BOOK a couple of review questions from last class (2 minutes). Then, staying in the group, they use their notes or book to check their work and fill in the gaps they "forgot" (2 minutes). Then a 2-minute large group review where you call on a group at random to answer each of the review questions, and you add encouraging clarification to their work.

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Comments?

Questions?

Clarifications?

Email me at thad.crewsii@wku.edu