Different Technology Integrated Classes and Critical Thinking Skills

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Jean F. Coppola
• Barbara A.Thomas
• Jennifer D.E.Thomas

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Intent of Study
• To Assess the Impact of Different Technology
  Integrations on Students Critical Thinking
• Smart E-Classroom, Traditional Classroom,
• Traditional Blackboard,
• Electronic Blackboard.

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Tools Utilized
• California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST)
• Healthlite
• Ginormous
• Perception Survey
• Population
• Graduate Introductory IS course.

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• South Carolina Higher Education Assessment
  Network Critical Thinking Task Force Provides a
  Definition Adopted by a Number of Authors .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Critical Thinking Defined
• A reflective, systematic, rational skeptical use
  of cognitive representations, processes,
  strategies to make decisions about beliefs,
  problems and/or courses of action (Cook et al.,
  1996 Facione 1998).

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Currently, no clear research to indicate
  technology contributes to critical thinking
• To have impact, technology integration must go
  beyond a projection or demonstration tool .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Teachers must first begin to define contexts for
  learning differently treat technology resources
  as serious contexts for stimulating learning
  (Gerod, C. 2001).

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Technology Integration
• Smart E-Classroom
• Smart E-Classroom w/ Blackboard
• Chalk and Talk
• Chalk and Talk w/ Blackboard.

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Smart E-Classroom
• interactive multimedia electronic classroom
  networked to the Internet and housing a video/
  audio/ keyboard/ mouse broadcast-on-demand
  system
• (Coppola and B. Thomas, 2000)

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Smart E-Classroom Features
• Individual Use
• Team-Mode
• Students take control of each others screens and
  keyboards
• Project screen to consoles within the team
• Screen projection to one or more stations from
  instructor or student consoles
• Toggle between instructor console and student
  console

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Traditional Classroom
• Moveable chairs
• Whiteboard
• Instructor Station PC for presentations
• Blackboard
• Online Course Management System
• Discussion Board, Email, Announcements

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Preliminary Results of Pilot Investigation
  Technology Integration in Graduate Introductory
  Information Systems Course .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Requirements
• Same Faculty Member Teaches Same Course during
  the Same Semester
• All groups used Healthlite Ginormous (Case
  Study Tools) throughout Course .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• End of Term Exam
• Case Analysis - Ginormous
• Choose Teams Debate Solutions
• Support Higher Order Learning .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Administered Pre- Post-
• CCTST Forms A B
• Post-Perception Survey .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills Gender
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills Age
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills Computer Experience
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills CCTST Scores
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills Performance
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills Perceptions
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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Conclusion
• Appears to Indicate Technology Helps with
  Acquisition of Higher Order Learning
• CCTST Scores
• Final Grades, exc. For ECBB
• Traditional Classroom holds its own
• Student Perceptions, esp. Conducting Research .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Future Work
• Further Investigation Needed
• Recruit Additional Faculty
• Extend Research to Other Disciplines, Years, and
  Universities
• Refine Satisfaction Surveys .

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Different Technology Integrated Classes and
Critical Thinking Skills

• Acknowledgements
• President Caputos Office - Learning Assessment
  Grant
• Kenan Scholarly Research Grants
• CSIS
• DoIT
• Lienhard School of Nursing..