ICS Transforming Technologies

 “Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas.”  Euclid, c.300 BC

Confucius say  I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand.  I have on-line synchronous interactions in cyberspace and I master higher level thinking skills.

Interaction Active Learning High Order Thinking Skills BP 12: use interactive exercises

Analysis | Synthesis | Evaluation  “Develop a testable model of environmental insult.”  “Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data.”  “Integrate general biological and molecular concepts into public health.”  “Interpret results of statistical analyses found in public health studies.” ASPH Education Committee Master’s Degree in Public Health Core Competency Development Project Version 2.3

How?  Cooperative learning  Group projects in virtual space  Problem-based learning  Treasure hunt | find applicable instances  How would you…?  Cases  Extended discussions and examples  Simulations  Role playing and dialogs

BP 13: use mind/concept mapping software  Vehicle for systems thinking  Visualizes relationships for visual thinkers  Brain storming  Real time collaboration

Examples  Mind Manager from MindJet  Visual Understanding Environment – Tufts  XMind  Cmap  And much, much more…