Communication Skills

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Seminar X Teaching With Technology
Norm Dennis
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Group Activity

• In your teams
• Create a list of technologies that are available
  for teaching and learning.
• Segregate the list
• IN the classroom
• OUTSIDE the classroom

You have 3 minutes
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Transparencies
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Advantages of Prepared Transparencies?

• Readily available.
• Easy to make easy to use.
• Detailed info can be very legible.
• An efficient/effective memory aid.

Wankat Oreovicz, Ch. 6
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Disadvantages of Transparencies?

• Lights are off
• Student may be
• Too passive
• Too active
• Only one screen visible
• Timing can be a problem
• Hard to stay neat

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Appropriate Use of Viewgraph

• Problem statement for an in-class example
• Illustration or photograph
• Chart, graph, or table
• Cartoon

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Inappropriate Use of Transparencies

• Large quantities of detailed information.
• Photocopy of text pages.
• Flip (rapidly) and stick.

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Tips

• Use entire screen
• Write large and legibly
• Dim lights
• Be sensitive about contact
• Look at screen occasionally
• Watch your body position

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More Tips

• Watch speed
• Use multiple screens/overheads
• Package like board
• Use Color
• Use partial overheads w/handouts
• Uncover points individually

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PowerPoint

• The electronic transparency, only better
• Can incorporate digital images
• More dynamic
• Can use builds to construct diagrams

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Typical Span
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Typical Span
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Main Truss
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PowerPoint

• The electronic transparency, only better
• Can incorporate digital images
• More dynamic
• Can use builds to construct diagrams
• Can be animated
• Easily modified
• Can be shared electronically

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PowerPoint

• Generally has the same disadvantages as
  transparencies, plus
• Even more inflexible in the classroom
• Subject to more technological problems
• Can be a real time sink

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The Learning Disconnects

• Activity
• Focus on Content
• Predictability
• Attendance

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Other Computer Applications

• Courseware (Blackboard. WebCT)
• Engineering software (CADD, FEA)
• Computer Aided Instruction Software
• Drill and Practice/Tutorials
• Electronic Textbooks
• Spreadsheet
• Math Assistants ( Mathcad, Maple)
• Simulation Software (Working Model)
• The Internet

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Individual Activity

• For each computer Application

• Rate the educational benefit (1low, 5high).
• Rate the cost (1low, 5high).

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Your Responses
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Computers in the Classroom(Jonassen, 1996)

• Learning from Computing
• Learning about Computing
• Learning with Computing

Computer Aided Instruction
Computer Literacy
Mindtools
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Mindtools

• Generalizeable computer tools that engage the
  learner.
• Enhance critical thinking.
• Extend, amplify, or restructure how learners
  think about content.
• Examples
• Spreadsheets
• Database Software

• Expert Systems
• Multimedia Construction

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Teaching With Technology

• Classroom time is for carefully guided human
  discourse
• Technology improves classroom teaching only if it
  enhances human communication - - at an acceptable
  cost
• Hard to do!
• Our greatest payoff is using computer technology
  outside the classroom

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Teaching With Technology
Questions?