Creating Interactive Classes Possibilities and Challenges Presentation slide for courses, classes, lectures et al. Creating Interactive Classes Possibilities and Challenges Bill Hunter The Global Class

Agenda The Big Picture: 21st century education Student skills Changing views of learning Shake, Rattle and Roll Impact of Technology Developments Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Ancient Literate The Big Picture Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project. Literate

1850-ish and after The Big Picture Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

The Big Picture Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

The Big Picture Online learning Makerspaces MOOCs Active teaching and learning Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

21st Century 1910 Education Medicine The Big Picture Understanding of role of microbes Doctor surplus Burgeoning research in sciences New tools available New understandings of learning Teacher Surplus Research in education and neuroscience New tools Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Student Skills Multiple literacies Facility with new technologies Research skills Library, online Organising and evaluating Analysing Communicating Scientific reasoning Intercultural understanding and communication Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Activity 1 What kinds of interactive learning are most common in your experience? Do you feel that you personally benefit from interactive lessons? In what way or why not? What changes would be necessary to increase the use of interactive teaching and learning in your environment?

Changing views of learning Case-based teaching Problem-based learning Situated cognition Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project. Active learning Cooperative learning

Changing views of learning Constructivism Connectivism Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Disorienting dilemmas Shake, Rattle and Roll Disruption Disorienting dilemmas Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Nature of interactive component Activity 2 Learning Content Nature of interactive component   Outcomes

Nature of interactive component Learning Content Nature of interactive component   Outcomes Writing business letters Simulated business case Good participation Student generated questions Suggestions for future cases Variance & standard deviation Student–generated in class data analysis Better understanding of concept as “spread” or “differences” “My Distance from Mean” seemed to make calculation meaningful Hard to convey reason for squaring and for taking square root Hygiene and infection Student-created promotional videos Research for content seemed to generate deeper understanding Students reported feeling pride of accomplishment

Impact of Technology Developments Wrong question Clark vs. Kozma Affordances Beginning course details and/or books/materials needed for a class/project.

Some resources The Principles of Learning Wiki http://wikis.apa.uoit.ca/wikis/EDUC5001-SEP10/index.php/Main_Page Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre Dublin Institute of Technology http://www.dit.ie/lttc/resources/ Teaching and learning Centre links (Padlet) https://padlet.com/BillHunter/hgkfca9boi07 Onine education journals http://www.abed.org.br/documentos/Access_Education_Journals_and_their_Websites.pdf

One learning map To get value from this, http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1LGVGJY66-CCD5CZ-12G3/Learning%20Theory.cmap has this image with live links.

Create Interactive Classes Possibilities and Challenges Presentation slide for courses, classes, lectures et al. “No try, do.” Bill Hunter The Global Class