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Frugal Innovations for Student Engagement:
Collegial Sharing of Improvements
Lilly DC 2011
Session 58 - POTOMAC
Friday, June 3, 2011 3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m
Steven Gilbert and Sally Gilbert, TLT Group |
Purpose: Develop and share small, useful ways to support more effective, widespread, and rapid collegial sharing of improvements in teaching and learning with technology.
http://tlt.gs/FISELillyDC11
Conference Twitter hash tag - Tweet: #Lilly11
Technology can help faculty improve student engagement in courses– without adding
unrealistic workloads for their students or themselves– even when money and time are especially
scarce. Working in small teams, participants identify “low-threshold” course improvements
and develop strategies and resources for sharing those improvements effectively,
rapidly, and beyond the usual 5-10% of faculty colleagues. Worksheets and online templates
enable easy development of paper bookmarks for collegial sharing.
How? FISE, Nanovation
Improvements in Teaching/Learning with Technology
Intentional Support for Collegial Sharing
"STOP THE PRESSES!"
PART 0 - Encourage, Enable, Engage
"Become so imaginative that you do the right thing automatically" - Bob Boice Plenary 20110603
tlt.gs/FISElillydc11 tlt.gs/FISEwrkshpRESOURCES
PART I Why? TMI/TMO/TLT/TL$ Why need frugal innovation: make improvements in T/L in midst of churning;
Observations, Hypotheses - Higher ed good at identifying appealing improvements, collecting them, making "accessible"-i. e, giving entitlement and access and at least some awareness
- Higher ed BAD at getting people who are entitled to resources to take advantage of them
So... I've been focusing on SHAREWORTHY SHAREABLE ... COLLEGIAL SHARING STRATEGIES, SUPPORT
PART II Nanovation Interviews DISCUSS past conferences - examples of learning something that you DID use within 6 months... or why you expected to and could not
PART IIIAnyone attending this as FIRST session of conference? Anyone having NOT attended ANY sessions in which you learned something you could and hope to use to improve T/L within next 6 months? Identify, discuss a Shareworthy, Low-Threshold, Shareable improvement from THIS conference that you hope/expect to use within next 6 days, weeks, months.
PART IV A. Discuss strategies, resources, ideas that will enable you to use one improvement from this conference B. Discuss strategies to help COLLEAGUES use this improvement "back home"
Each strategy should help one person to enable and encourage 3 more colleagues try similar improvements and then, in turn, help 3 more colleagues, and so on....
i. Think of 3 receptive colleagues who might benefit from learning about your improvement - and who might be likely to help others - jot down their initials to help you recall later whom you intended to help.
PART V CLOSING - Report results in this session.
Improvement - use of tech in specific ways in 5 section (total 200 plus) case production course Obstacle - worry about cheating Solution(s) - use student monitoring for SOME activities and have careful/full faculty monitoring of other activities (perhaps just finals) Have students provide comments individually about how the group worked and to grade colleagues within the group TALK WITH THE STUDENTS ABOUT THIS - DON'T GET CANDID RESPONSES
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Improvement Obstacle - we ourselves are the biggest impediment Solutions - do something ASAP after this conf - make real decision; apply; via Twitter - DON'T ADMIT YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING - eliminate 2nd guessing
Improvement more physical things ; interval activites Obstacle 8am!!! Solutions Postits Starbucks; 2-3min audio podcast on Bb - [in lieu of reading] can be rearranged, repurposed, ... STUDENT USE THESE BEFORE CLASS - Enrique Zapatero - Last 5 mins
- small 1st step
- buddy system
- Postits - on the wall; off the wall
- Participate in FridayLive! - present, observe, engage! Every Friday 2:00pm Eastern. TELL US THIS FALL ABOUT YOUR EFFORTS TO USE SOMETHING FROM THIS CONFERENCE
- see New Yorker article week of June 3, 2011
II. Activities
Individually
Identify shareworthy, low-threshold, shareable improvements from your own experience and/or activities at Lilly Conf
Trios
A. Select one improvement
B. Agree on a description.
Complete a NoteTaking Bookmark (paper or online)
Minimum: Brief title; brief description; at least one reference (URL/link, article, ...); contact information for someone willing to answer questions or provide a little additional support
[If you agree to work on one of the improvements suggested by one of you, use this time to clarify, revise, sharpen the text - ask each other tough, helpful questions!]
C. Develop a sharing strategy
Each strategy should help one person to enable and encourage 3 more colleagues try similar improvements and then, in turn, help 3 more colleagues, and so on....
i. Think of 3 receptive colleagues who might benefit from learning about your improvement - and who might be likely to help others - jot down their initials to help you recall later whom you intended to help.
ii. Develop a strategy to use paper bookmarks for this purpose
iii. If time permits (or the paper bookmark is not a good fit for your improvement) develop a different kind of strategy for the same purpose.
III. Conclusion
- Report results in this session.
- Time permitting, discuss other ideas for using paper bookmarks at your own institution or at this conference.
- Complete more NoteTaking bookmarks during this conference and leave them in the wicker basket in the conference registration area.
- Send results or inquiries to SallyGilbert@tltgroup.org
- Participate in FridayLive! - present, observe, engage! Every Friday 2:00pm Eastern.
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