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Statewide IT Conference September 29, 2011
iPads for Teaching and Learning
Faculty Learning Communities
Outcomes and Highlights
IT Staff Support
Classroom Sets
Pedagogy + Technology
iPads for Teaching and Learning
Why a faculty learning community?
FLCs promote the goals of teaching and learning centers by:
•building a community of people interested in issues of teaching and learning
•enabling cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations about teaching
•supporting and encouraging good teaching
Why a faculty learning community?
•providing an opportunity to give and receive feedback about teaching in a safe, supportive environment
•facilitating the dissemination of best practices beyond the FLC to the wider university community
Why an iPad FLC?
The iPad FLC promoted the use of innovative teaching practices by the faculty participants by:
•creating the expectation that the participants were going to try something new in their classes
•enabling the participants to share their knowledge and ideas and define common goals
•establishing a safe, supportive environment in which even “failures” were seen as informative
Faculty Learning Communities
Outcomes and Highlights
IT Staff Support
Classroom Sets
Pedagogy + Technology
iPads for Teaching and Learning
Challenges
Being first is hard!
• No research out there
• Unexpected wireless problems
• Where do you start?
Fighting the design?
• iPad was designed as a personal device
• iPad was designed more as a consumption device
Successes – Visual learning
Geologic mapping
The iPads helped students’ “learning associated with visual integration of spatial sets of data”.
Dr. Simon Brassell
Geological Sciences
Successes – Visual learning
Biomechanics
iPad served as a mini-lab to allow students to analyze and understand human movement
Jake Streepey
Physical Education
Successes – Visual learning
Making thinking visible
• Large lecture class• Students worked in
small groups to sketch the process
• “Voted” with clickers
Joe Pomerening
Biology
Successes - Collaboration
Mind mapping apps
iPads promoted collaborative learning and knowledge creation in Communication Theory course
Jonathan RossingCommunication
Putting it together
Putting it together
Putting it together
It’s (still) all about the apps…
• “Productivity” apps seem to be best suited for higher education
• We need app developers to sit down with faculty members
• Finding apps is still really difficult
• What’s the next big thing after wireless?
Faculty Learning Communities
Outcomes and Highlights
IT Staff Support
Classroom Sets
Pedagogy + Technology
iPads for Teaching and Learning
IT Staff Support
• Desktop Replacement vs. Extension• Early Adoption
Faculty Expectations
• Faculty teaching methodologyConveyance of information
• Student retention/attentionCollaborative LearningIncreased understandingIncreased resources
• Fast pace changing landscape of technologyInstant accessUp-to-date processes
Challenges and Solutions
• On campus / Off campus connectivityVPNWiFi
• Apples AppStoreTM (IUWare for iPads)Compatible Applications
• 3rd Party SolutionsHardware interfacesDesktop solutions
Faculty Learning Communities
Outcomes and Highlights
IT Staff Support
Classroom Sets
Pedagogy + Technology
iPads for Teaching and Learning
All you need is here:
• iOS Education Deployment Guide
Purchasing Apps
Sync Strategies
Tips for classroom set
• Use a Mac to sync iPads• Pay attention to wi-fi network• Practice activity before class• Check back often
• It’s all about the apps
Faculty Learning Communities
Outcomes and Highlights
IT Staff Support
Classroom Sets
Pedagogy + Technology
iPads for Teaching and Learning
Supporting AND Partnering
Supports Partnering
Empowering People
Action 64
…provide resources and support for experimentation with and implementation of a range of creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning….
Action 69
….evaluate, implement, and support appropriate compact, portable devices that connect students and instructors in ways that enable lean or rich communication, collaboration, and interaction using voice, audio, text, and video.
Action 25
…..support and pursue research into information technology itself. IT professionals and faculty should seek partnership opportunities for scholarly publication and invention disclosure that document meritorious research and discovery…..
Faculty Learning Communities
• New
Second Life
Large Classroom (clickers)• Potential
Smart phones
Social media
Virtual environments/Gaming• Others?
Questions?
iPads for Teaching and Learning
Questions?
Thank you.
iPads for Teaching and Learning