Doing is better than perfect: How to "do" technology in the Humanities classroom

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Doing is better than perfect

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This presentation offers numerous ways to "do" technology in the Humanities classroom.

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Doing is better than perfect

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5 ways to “do” technology in the classroom

Meeting the needs of the new and old curriculum

How to be 27 places at once

Managing documents and reducing email load

Feeding back and feeding forward

If you can’t teach code, teach logic

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How to be 27 places at

onceFlip the classroom

Create skills based sustainable resources for stages that will stand the test of time.

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If you can’t teach code,teach logic

PBL for digital natives

In reality, most students are far more tech savvy than their teachers. We may not be able to instruct them in the ‘how to’ of the latest gadget but we can introduce the principles of computational thinking.

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Start with a question

1. Make the problems open ended

Try not to lead students towards what you want them to do: let them solve the problem the best way they see fit.

2. Separate thinking and executing

Help the students chunk tasks into manageable pieces.

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One of the best cross pollinations of methodology around is the use of Kanban in the classroom.

Kanban in the classroom

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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU…

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