Why Integrate Technology?
Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist
Fostering technology integration
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Universal student access
Reliable networks
Multiple opportunities for training and support
Environment which values experimentation
and tolerates failures
Source: Spodark
Current state of higher ed tech integration
Never
45%
Frequent (several
times/week)
20%
Occasional
(once a month)
35%
How are faculty currently using technology?
e-mail
100
work from home
80
scholarly writing
60
presentations
40
Internet research
20
data analysis
0
online course material
Percentage of faculty (n = 33,785)
course instruction
Why bother?
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Access to vast repositories of INFORMATION and
RESOURCES
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REFLECTION upon (and in some cases transformation of)
the way we teach
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VISUALIZATION and CONCEPTUALIZATION
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Opportunities to create ENGAGED learners
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Ability to ACCOMODATE varied learning styles
How can faculty know what’s possible?
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Magazines and Journals:
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Conferences and Websites
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http://www.askeric.org
EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/
Syllabus http://www.syllabus.com
The Collaboration http://www.colab.org
Instructor resource guides with websites
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T.H.E. http://www.thejournal.com/
Syllabus http://www.syllabus.com
Converge http://www.convergemag.com
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Augie’s own Instructional Technologist!
Technology can support learning by facilitating…
EXPLORATION and ANALYSIS of information
SIMULATION of events or processes
VISUALIZATION of abstract concepts
MANIPULATION of variables
CONSTRUCTION of knowledge
PRACTICE and drilling of skills
Some ideas…
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Instead of writing comments in the margins of students’ papers,
you can have students can send papers via e-mail. Then, using a
microphone attached to a PC, you can make audio comments on
the papers. If you return the papers via e-mail, students can listen
to your comments with headphones or speakers.
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Or, to save disk space, you can use the annotate feature in Word
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You may already know how to create links to Web sites in
PowerPoint, but you can also easily create links to the files from
within a PowerPoint presentation: Paper www.google.com
Some more ideas…
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Use the custom animation feature to animate charts, graphs, and
images within Powerpoint to make your message come alive…
This piece represents
which artistic style?
 Realism
 Baroque
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 Impressionism
 Neo-Classicism
Madonna and Child with Saints
1708
Oil on canvas, 406 x 208 cm
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
RICCI, Sebastiano
(b. 1659, Belluno, d. 1734, Venezia)
Understanding Cultural Influences
North America
Asia
South America
Australia
Africa
Rainforest ecosystem decline
40
35
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25
20
15
10
5
0
1960
1980
2000
Some more ideas…
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Virtual field trips via Web or interactive CD-ROM
Battle Maps
Field Museum
Sounds from the Vault
Tending the Memory: National Digital Archives
More ideas
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Create Web pages that impose visual structure and an
expert’s conceptual framework upon complex information
Use modeling software to help students visualize molecular structures
Provide access to accompaniment software that responds and adjusts to
the student’s tempo (and is available anytime!)
Create online forums for students to review their classmates’ papers,
creating a “writers’ community”
Use Word™ to capture classroom discussions for posting and review
Use Babelfish or Google to translate phrases from one language to
another (and back again, for some interesting comparisons!)
Use simulation software, such as SimCity (urban planning) or SimLife
(biology) to enable students to manipulate complex variables in a
simulated environment
More ideas
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Use biomechanics software and digital video capture to help
students in physical education and sports
Use digital microscope cameras to allow an entire class to
view the same microscopic image
Use thermal imaging software to plot thermal fluctuations
Use electronic “smart boards” instead of projection screens to
run software demonstrations and capture whiteboard images
Virtual Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Period Rooms
Virtual Tour of the Louvre
Vatican Museums
History
Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Virtual Tour of the Pantheon
Science
The Orbitron
Chemist’s Art Gallery
Other
QuickTime Cubic VR Gallery
Finally…
While information does not equal knowledge
and technology is not a “cure-all”,
thoughtful, meaningful, and authentic integration
of technology and information resources
can enhance learning and lead to
development of knowledge.
Sources
Sax, L. 2000. “An Overview of the 1998-99 Faculty Norms.” Graduate School of
Educational and Information Studies UCLA. (A study of 33,785 family members from
378 colleges.
Spodark, E. 2003, “Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts
University”, T.H.E. Journal March: 14-24. Online:
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4344.cfm .
Cuban, L. 1999. “The Technology Puzzle.” Education Week 4 August: 47,68. Online:
www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/43cuban.h18.
Trinkle, D. 1999. “Distance Education: A Means to an End, No More, No Less.” Chronicle
of Higher Education 6 August: A60.
Maddux, C., Johnson, L., and Willis, J., Educational Computing: Learning with Tomorrow’s
Technologies (2nd ed.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997, pp. 17-35.
URLs
EXPLORATION – The Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/
ANALYSIS – EROS http://edc.usgs.gov/
SIMULATION – Amusement Park Physics http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
VISUALIZATION – CalTech Super Computer http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/ismap/image.html
MANIPULATION – Optical Illusions http://www.illusionworks.com/html/hall_of_illusions.html
CONSTRUCTION – Northwestern University http://web.mmlc.nwu.edu/projects/
PRACTICE – Yale Cardiothoracic Imaging http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging/
Dunhuang QTVR http://smith.mmlc.nwu.edu/~harlan/Merit/latest/qtvr.html
Valley of the Shadow http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html
Virginia Center for Digital History
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/
The Field Museum http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
Sounds from the Vault http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sounds/index.htm
URLs
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Period Rooms
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/vr_html/vr/temp_v_thumbnails.htm
Vatican Museums
http://vrm.vrway.com/issue14/VATICAN_MUSEUMS_IN_VIRTUAL_REALITY.html
Virtual Tour of the Louvre http://www.louvre.or.jp/louvre/QTVR/anglais/
QuickTime Cubic VR Gallery http://www.apple.com/quicktime/gallery/cubicvr/
Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/
Virtual Tour of the Pantheon http://www.compart-multimedia.com/virtuale/us/roma/pantheon.htm
The Orbitron http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/orbitron/
Chemist’s Art Gallery http://www.csc.fi/chem/gallery.phtml