March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 1 Teaching in Small Bytes Directed Texting in Mathematics & ESL Classes nathan kohn text me 7x24
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 2 part-time student at METCS High school and/or undergraduate years distant Difficult course ( MET CS 546 Quantitative Methods ) Adjunct faculty Weekly weekday evening 3 hour class Not on campus outside of class hours Full-time jobs & family commitments command & consume their most productive hours Office hours, just preceding a three hour class, are too late for a student struggling with concepts from a lecture a week past.
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 3 Directed Texting Teaching tool inexpensive convenient effective in class outside of class SMS technology available on all cell phones.
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 4 distance learner Challenge is ever greater. Online courses Blended courses Conjoined course (Blended + F2F) Blackboard + Adobe Connect Tablet A variety of tools do exist –additional expense and technical support –lack sufficient commonality –not well suited for a quantum of learning.
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March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 6 Directed Texting International students Keeping both the question and the expected answer very short reduces stress for students who are not comfortable speaking or writing in English. While not primarily intended for in classroom use, Directed Texting can play well there as well.
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 7 Int’l Student Journalism (Korea) Form + Function + Meaning + Pragmatics
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 8 Int’l Student Journalism (Korea) irregular plurals, irregular verbs, word order, vocabulary,agreement, syllabification, silent letters, determiners,...
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 9 Directed Texting a fine-grained tool pearls of pedagogical wisdom < 140 characters composed in advance simultaneous mass transmittal can reach students regardless of location reaches students within seconds within moments an instructor may –assess retained learning –identify conceptual stragglers –make adjustments to the next in-class lecture.
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 10 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Arabic speaker Engineering Major Int’l STEM Student ©
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 11 level of students student skills and aptitude are distributed in a surprisingly diverse number of ways. math classes for non-math majors: bimodal distribution, with int’ls: tri-modal! material must be brisk and accessible. ⅔ = singular cardinal followed by a plural ordinal ? ! three ten-millionths in.= ? vertex → vertices square < cube parabola = quadratic
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 12 educational objectives and benefits Student engagement Reinforcement for weekly only classes Ensures students have the gist of a lecture. Students & faculty have SMS text devices. No new costs are incurred Dense material can be probed subtly Q&A are terse Archive searchable/sortable
March 8, 2013Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf 13 other instructors / other courses Teaching by Directed Texting transfers easily to many subject areas besides Mathematics or English as a Second Language. Even full-time faculty teaching full-time undergraduate students may find it useful. Depending on the teaching point a teacher could certainly tell students that only incorrect answers will be acknowledged, or perhaps that only correct ones will be, or that the first correct answer gets a ‘gold star’.
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