Teaching Without Walls:Life Beyond the Lecture

Michelle Pacansky-Brockbrocansky@gmail.com

MAKE IT SOCIAL!

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18-24 YEAR OLD COLLEGE STUDENTS

• Don’t remember life before the internet

• 95% of 18-24 year olds use a social network (70% daily)

Source: Smith and Caruso. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and IT, 2010. http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ECARStudyofUndergraduateStuden/217333

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• Socialize face-to-face and online

• Experiences are increasingly mobile

“THE ERA OF PARTICIPATION”

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“THE ERA OF PARTICIPATION”

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PARTICIPATORY LEARNING IS COMMONPLACE

“Since the current generation of college students has no memory of the historical moment before the advent of the Internet, we are suggesting that participatory learning as a practice is no longer exotic or new but a commonplace way of socializing and learning. For many, it seems entirely unremarkable.”

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assistance of Zoë Marie Jones. From the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachussets, 2009.#ADEC22

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Instructional Paradigm

Participatory Learning Paradigm

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This is not participatory learning.

Identify your paradigm.

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Instruction Paradigm Learning Paradigm

Transfer knowledge from faculty to students

Elicit students’ discovery and construction of knowledge

Cover material Achieve specified learning results

Faculty role is “lecturer”Faculty role is designer of learning

methods and environments

Achieve access for diverse student groups

Achieve learning success for diverse student groups

Barr & Tagg, From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education, Change, Nov/Dec 1995, 13-25. Table graphic is an adapted from the work of Jim Julius.

Keys to Improving College Degree Attainment Rate:

• More deep learning, less rote memorization

• Faculty development should foster new ways of teaching to meet today’s students’ learning preferences and challenges

http://www.cccsse.org/Center for Community College Student Engagement

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What is deep learning?

“Deep learning — learning associated with higher-order cognitive tasks — is typically contrasted with rote memorization. Memorization may help students pass an exam, but it doesn’t necessarily expand students’ understanding of the world around them, help them make connections across disciplines, or promote the application of knowledge and skills in new situations.”

http://www.cccsse.org/The Heart of Student Success

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spend more face-to-face time applying, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating

spend less face-to-face time lecturing

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“Untethered Learning”Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow

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Mobile Lectures

read

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listen(pause, rewind, replay)

or

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Online Pre- and Post-Class Formative Assessments

web-based applicationno cost to student

provides conversations around mediacomments in voice, video or text

peer-to-peer, participatory learning

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pre- and post-classOnline Formative Assessments

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pre-classOnline Formative Assessments

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post-classOnline Formative Assessments

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• “I liked the voicethreads the best because it helped make me think in other ways and get different perspectives from my fellow students.”

• “...created an environment for people to do well who don’t always do best in a classroom environment if they’re afraid to talk in class or if the class is run by a group of students who dominate the conversation.”

• “... helped me to really understand the content we were learning and also get feedback from other students and from our professor as well.”

Feedback on Use of VoiceThread

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WIKIS: COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE

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The Wiki Challenge!

STUDY THIS!

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USE THEM!

•“Call a Friend” Surveys

•PollEverywhere(free, texting turns phones into clickers)

• Have students participate in a Twitter backchannel

• Schedule tweets to be sent during class (ask questions for students to reply to)

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Open your classroom to guest speakers from around the world.

Lori Rusch, Art History Instructor at Citrus College and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

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Effect on Student Learning?

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HAVING THE OPTION TO READ OR LISTEN TO A LECTURE INCREASED MY ABILITY TO ACHIEVE THE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES.

0%

17.5%

35%

52.5%

70%

Strongly AgreeAgree

NeutralDisagree

92.5% = strongly agreed/

agreed

77% response rate

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WHEN GIVEN THE OPTION TO READ OR LISTEN TO A LECTURE, WHICH OPTION DID YOU CHOOSE?

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12.5%

25%

37.5%

50%

readlistened

both sometimes

neitherread, sometimeslistened

40%

15%

30%

15%

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WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS LECTURE FORMAT?

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17.5%

35%

52.5%

70%

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technology

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22%

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THE VARIETY OF LEARNING MATERIALS PLAYED A ROLE IN HELPING ME REACH THE COURSE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES.

0%

22.5%

45%

67.5%

90%

Strongly AgreeAgree

NeutralDisagree

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Effect on Success and Retention?

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10% INCREASE IN SUCCESS 12% INCREASE IN RETENTION

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traditional methodnew method

Success: # enrolled at census divided by the number of students who end with an A, B, or C

Retention: # enrolled at census divided by the number enrolled at end of term.

67%

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90%

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THIS CLASS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND HOW I LEARN BEST.

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12.5%

25%

37.5%

50%

Strongly AgreeAgree

NeutralDisagree

Strongly Disagree

81% = strongly agreed/agreed

41% 40%

15%

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BY COMPLETING THE LECTURES OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM, THE TIME WE SPENT IN CLASS WAS

MORE RELEVANT TO MY OWN LEARNING.

81% = strongly agree/agree

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12.5%

25%

37.5%

50%

Strongly AgreeAgree

NeutralDisagree

Strongly Disagree

41% 40%

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Listen to the full 20-minute interview at:

mpbreflections.blogspot.com/sharedresources

Student Interview

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“In traditional lecture classes you feel like you are being forcefed the information, but in this class you felt like you were living the history in each of the learning units and truly connecting to the material.”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

“I learned more than I ever thought I would. ... I will take some of the lessons I learned here with me for the rest of my life.”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

“The material presented in this class prompted me to evaluate my experiences as a female in terms of my connections to females who have lived before me, females now and those who will soon arrive on the scene.”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

“I have to admit it did take a little getting use to, and did require you to become a little more organized, BUT the richness in the information was a wonderful trade off. I feel as though I walked through the 1920's in Paris and was able to breathe in the atmosphere...”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

“[The class] made me look at the images I see every day in a new way. I also liked the way that the class was set up. I think that more classes should be taught this way.”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

“I really enjoyed the class and I understood the content a lot better than I would have in just a traditional classroom setting.”

Student Comments:evidence of deep learning

Michelle Pacansky-Brockbrocansky@gmail.com

blog: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.comTwitter : @brocansky

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