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Mike Truong, Founding Executive Director, Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology, Azusa Pacific University
The demands faculty teaching in the digital age face are immense rom keeping distracted students engaged (high touch) to keeping current on the latest technologies (high tech).
This presentation will provide some proven strategies on helping faculty meet these challenges.
Specific ideas participants will take away from the session
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• Articulate the challenges of teaching in the digital age.
• Explain how technology can meet some of these challenges.
• Emplo best- practices for teaching with technology.
Where as other voices are overly critical of MOOCs or on the other extreme overly Utopian, Mike says he is in the middle, looking at technology pedagogically.
He gave an extensive quote from Hamlet's Blackberry.
We need space between our tasks to reflect.
He then talked about the "really cool" Domino's pizza app. "It is
amazing what you can do with ordering pizza now a days."
He is excited about the apps that allow you to buy glasses and take a
picture of a paycheck and electronically deposit it.
You can buy a house online - you can buy a house without even looking at it.
"We are immensely better because of technology."
We can learn any time, place, and device.
Students are demanding that faculty use more and more tech in the classroom.
Pedagogy - gains, losses, and implications
The essay is a good model for learning critical thinking - but it is too alphabetic-centric. Word processing helps us but it promotes linear thinking.
Technology - Jose Bowen - technology maximizes teachers face-to-face contact with students. Henry Jenkins says that technology encourages participation. Sugata Mitra - technology self-educates.
He makes the claim that "the internet harms our ability to engage with difficult text and complex ideas" a quote from Nicholas Carr. Clifford Nass says that "Media multitasking impairs our focus, productivity, and creativity." We are losing the ability to focus on one task at a time. He gives the argument of Sherry Turkle's Connected Alone.
He comes back to Wiliam Powers Hamlet's Blackberry.
He then talked about the story in Wired "Minimally invasive learning." - the issue that has "The Next Steve Jobs" on the cover.
Technology's proper role is to supplement the learning.
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