Video from ConnectEd Summit

Back in February, I participated in the ConnectEd Summit hosted by Abilene Christian University.  The purpose of the conference was to explore uses of smart phones (particularly iPhones) in higher education.  The conference has now posted video from the keynotes and some of the breakout sessions.  (That link will attempt to open the iTunes site for the conference, allowing you to download the video.)

I highly recommend the keynote by Eric Mazur, the Harvard physics professor who developed the peer instruction method for using clickers.  I think he makes an engaged and persuasive case for the effectiveness of this pedagogy.

You’ll also find the 19-minute presentation I gave as part of the “Pedagogy and Praxis” breakout session.  My goal was to identify some aspects of classroom response system technology that enhance learning, and then to see how those aspects might play out if all students had mobile devices in the classroom.  (You may recall I blogged about these ideas shortly after the conference.)  I think my presentation also serves as a fairly concise introduction to teaching with clickers, emphasizing some of the common pedagogical uses of the devices.