If you’ve been anywhere near a college campus, you’ve probably noticed the extent to which students are glued to their mobile devices. What do they do with them when they walk into the classroom? In one survey at six different universities, college students reported using their phones an average of 11 times per day in class.
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Reference
Technology and Student Distraction. The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Harvard University. Retrieved from https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/technology-and-student-distraction
Related Reading
Craig, R. J., & Amernic, J. H. (2006). PowerPoint presentation technology and the dynamics of teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 31(3), 147-160. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10755-006-9017-5
Please join my colleague Dr. Joyce King and me for our EdWeb Webinar, “How Early Literacy Impacts Reading to Learn: Research, Strategies, and Digital Tools.
Happy Digital Learning Day! Digital Learning Day was created in 2012. This year, 2018, is the 7th annual occurrence. There are over 1500 events occurring in celebration of digital learning and computer-mediated instruction. The focus and activities center around this essential question: How technology can enhance student learning?
There was an engaging and dynamic webinar today. I am so glad to have spent my lunchtime attending this webinar. You can see my tweets and the tweets of other attendees at the following hashtag: #DLDayWebinar
If you missed the#DLDaywebinar, Digital Learning Day 2018: Blending Teaching and Technology to Improve Student Outcomes, you can watch it here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1FxcZX5DQr0
Digital Learning Day is a “safe place for educators to try something new with technology” ~ Tom Murray, webinar moderator
Great example from a teacher’s lesson plan is a QR-code to log miles
Transformational technology
What I love that I’m learning
Systemic process
Adapt on the fly
Challenges:
Stagnant feeling when you want to do something
What is Step 1?- start to break the (thought) paralysis
Performance-based learning is distinctly different from online learning
“It’s not about us-it’s about the kids-student autonomy emerges”- Joe Vagt
“Academic urgency is for students vs teacher-centered instruction” ~Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
“Be thoughtful about the norms and culture you create” ~Tom Murray
Stop Waiting!
Cyclical progress of program assessment-students working in blended modalities with their families
Not a digital worksheet storage hub by a high-quality culture of innovation ~Tom Murray
Lagging metric tools layer ~
1st start measuring steps focus on implementation metrics – implementation leading metrics
student voice metric and also lagging metric tools. ~ Beth Rabbitt
Regarding the use of devices- ask “what are the coalition of the willing” ~Tom Arnett
(Agree!) I am fully of the belief that our 5 & 6 year-old learners can do anything (with technology) that our high school learners can do. ~ Nikolaus Namba, @NikNamba
Under the mental processes that our learners are using as they encounter and as they come up with their solutions
Beyond a Digital Divide to a Digital Use Divide
Active use vs. consumption use
Tomorrow is Digital Learning Day across the country and Hardin-Simmons University, where I am interim instructional designer, received an online shout-out and website placement for our Canvas Cowboy Innovator Event. “Digital Learning Day is a day to celebrate the great things that digitally happen EVERY Day in classrooms around our country. It is NOT about using digital tools for one day.” -From a DLDay Twitter post. #Edtechchat#DLDay