Hitting the Road: Keynotes at Lilly Conference, Turning Users Conferences
If you’re heading to the Turning Technologies User Conference at Harvard University in October or the Lilly Conference at Miami University in November, you’ll see me there! I’m delivering keynote talks at both conferences. Abstracts can be found below.
Connecting with Participatory Culture: Clickers and Deep Learning
Turning Technologies User Conference
Harvard University
October 10, 2010
Today’s students vote for their favorite contestants on American Idol, “like” a friend’s wall post on Facebook, comment on news and events on Twitter, and engage in robust online discussions about World of Warcraft. We live in a participatory culture, one in which voting, commenting, creating, and sharing are the norm and people prefer being contributors to being consumers. Teaching with clickers is one way to tap into this culture, engaging students in ways that motivate them to participate during class in meaningful ways. In this talk, Derek Bruff will explore ways that using clickers connects with our students’ participatory culture and how those connections can be leveraged to promote deep learning.
Clickers and Backchannel: Engaging Students with Classroom Response Systems
Lilly Conference on College Teaching
Miami University of Ohio
November 18, 2010
Classroom response systems offer instructors useful options for encouraging student participation and engagement during class. For instance, “clickers” enable instructors to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to multiple-choice questions. Backchannel conversation tools can help more students share questions and ideas with instructors during class and provide new venues for in-class discussion among students. In this session, we’ll explore the kinds of activities and questions that make the most of these systems, including ways to foster small-group and class-wide discussion, turn quizzes into learning experiences for students, practice more “agile” teaching, and make class time more enjoyable.
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