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Feb. 2 Webcast: "Feedback Devices ('clickers') in Effective Pedagogy"
Attention: Although this event has passed, an archive of the session will be available until April 6, 2006.
The archived session can be accessed from http://tinyurl.com/99mfg.
A copy of the original presentation materials can be downloaded from http://www.academicimpressions.com/preconference/feb_fd02.ppt.
Thursday, February 2, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Please join us for a local viewing on Thursday, February 2, of a live national web conference about "Feedback Devices in Effective Pedagogy." The 90-minute event, sponsored by Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR), begins at 1 pm.
Locations:
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Digital Union, 370 Science & Engineering Library, 175 West 18th Avenue. UPDATE: The Digital Union location has reached maximum capacity; seating is still available at the Physics Research Building (Room 1080 - 191 West Woodruff).
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Room 1080 of the new Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff. No reservation required
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Postle Hall. R.S.V.P. required - limited seating. Contact Sue Kestner: kestner.1@osu.edu or (688-8259).
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Ohio State Mansfield Campus. Contact Mike Collura: collura.8@osu.edu.
If you would like to have a separate site connection in your own building ($195), please contact Tom Stone at stone.177@osu.edu.
Details
The use of peer instruction and electronic classroom feedback devices ("clickers") provides instructors with an opportunity to assess student learning while requiring only minimal changes to the instructional environment. These devices can help in the shift to new pedagogical techniques shown to encourage high-level thinking skills and promote student intellectual development.
The "Feedback Devices in Effective Pedagogy" web conference will review how to effectively use electronic response systems to increase student engagement and improve student performance. Specifics on both technology and pedagogy will be covered.
Who Should Attend
Staff in charge of faculty development, assessment, and student learning outcomes will come away from this conference with a solid understanding of how to train faculty to use feedback devices in the classroom. Additionally, deans, department chairs, and faculty responsible for large classes will be able to apply the techniques discussed here directly.
Program Agenda
- The role of technology in teaching and learning
- Teacher-Centered vs. Learner-Centered Classrooms
- The Tourist vs. The Gardener
- Converting from tourist to gardener
- Overcoming obstacles to teaching reform
- Electronic response systems
- Similar elements, different models
- IR vs. RF
- Standardizing across campus
- Effective pedagogy: peer instruction and concept tests
- Components of peer instruction
- Characteristics of concept tests
- Impact of pedagogy on learning
- Electronic response systems and peer instruction
- Case Study: University of Akron
- Benefits of technology and pedagogy
- Potential drawbacks of technology
- Technology, pedagogy, and the seven principles of best practices in
undergraduate education
Presenter
David McConnell, Professor of Geology, founding director of the Center for Collaboration and Inquiry, University of Akron.
David McConnell is a Professor of Geology and the founding director of the Center for Collaboration and Inquiry at the University of Akron. He also directs the Northeast Ohio Center of Excellence for Mathematics and Science Teacher Education, a team of faculty from regional institutions collaborating to create inquiry-based lessons for courses taken by pre-service teachers.
David has taught a dozen different courses from introductory general education classes to advanced graduate courses. He received the University of Akron Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award (2002), the College of Education's Outstanding Campus Partner Award (2002), and the College of Arts & Sciences Chairs' Outstanding Achievement Award for Teaching (2000). He is the author of an online earth science text, The Good Earth, published by McGraw Hill, and he leads a team of geologists and educators writing a new edition that will directly incorporate effective pedagogy with content.
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