Improving Learning in High Tech Classrooms: Using the Seven Principles as a Guide

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This material was developed for TLT Group subscribing institutions and is intended for use only by those institutions. The TLT Group is a not-for-profit and its continued existence is made possible by subscriptions.

This workshop's goal: to help faculty find or develop promising, low-risk, easy-to-use teaching approaches that take advantage of technology (classroom technology, student access to technology) in order to improve learning. 

This workshop material was developed to help you offer a very brief workshop for faculty.  We also use this web page as an example of a brief, hybrid workshop ("hybrid" in the sense that it combines face-to-face interaction among people, plus online materials to guide the workshop and for further use afterward).  For more on the tools and techniques used to develop these materials, see our "5-Minute Workshop" techniques.] 

The eClip below can be shown as an on-screen guide throughout the whole workshop. Or, as the leader of a future workshop, you could watch the eClip now and use some or all of its ideas and graphics, while showing only some, or none, of the eClip to participants.  There are speaking notes in the notes area of the PowerPoint slides used for the eClip; the slides are tagged for the visually impaired.

You can begin to play this eClip by clicking on the arrow/button in the center of this image or, if that doesn't work, by clicking here:

 

Outline of the Workshop

 

The eClip itself outlines the workshop, in a series of short clips, separated by pauses for participant discussion. The workshop is designed to help faculty a) think about using technology to support teaching/learning activities, and b) to get ideas for how to do that from our 'seven principles' collection of ideas for teaching and learning with technology.

 

Please send suggestions for how this web page and eClip can be improved to Steve Ehrmann (ehrmann @ tltgroup.org).

 

Draft text to publicize this workshop: If you would like to help rewrite this Google Doc, ask Steve Ehrmann for 'sharing' rights.

 

Evaluation form for workshop: under construction

 

References

  • "Seven Principles" home page ('Seven principles' Collection of hundreds of TLT ideas; workshop materials; survey to gather more teaching ideas from your faculty, reference materials, etc.) (This page also includes a smaller, older version of the 'seven principles' collection of TLT ideas that does not require a subscriber account.)

  • Flashlight Online description (includes validated item bank of questions for guiding improvement of technology uses for advancing the seven principles)

  • Applying the seven principles to evaluations to guide program improvement (e.g., for program review, accreditation self-study, if they're being used as the occasion for constructive action)

- Stephen C. Ehrmann, revised July 28, 2007

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