NERCOMP EVENT
The P Word: What is Pedagogy, and Should it Drive Instructional Technology?
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More and more we hear the "P word" bandied about as we plan projects that incorporate technology in teaching and learning. But what is pedagogy, exactly? Is there a right way to teach? Is good pedagogy at odds with technology? Can gadgets really help people learn? How do we put learning theory to use? This SIG seeks to answer these and other related questions by bringing together a variety of provocative and entertaining speakers from among faculty and instructional technology experts at several New England colleges and universities.
Presentations will include an overview of recent developments in pedagogy, considerations of the appropriateness of technology in the classroom, real-world examples of pedagogy-friendly technology use, and suggestions for using learning theory as a means to engage faculty.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Dave Wedaman of Brandeis University
Date/Time:
Thursday, January 19, 2006
9:00am - 3:30pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Southbridge Hotel & Conference Center
14 Mechanic St.
Southbridge, MA
Special instructions:
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $91
Non-Members: $191
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 9:45am An Overview of Learning Theory
Speaker: Matthew Laliberte, Instructional Technologist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Beliefs about how people learn undergird all our efforts to design instruction, whether those efforts incorporate technology or not. But just how people learn continues to be the subject of much debate amongst scholars and practitioners alike. This session will briefly overview several classical theories of learning, as well as a number of more current theories under investigation today.
9:50am - 10:35am Blended Courses - Opportunity for Faculty Pedagogy Discussions
Speaker: Gary McCloskey, Dean of the College, Chaired Professor of Augustinian Pedagogy, Merrimack College
Fully Online vs. fully offline teaching discussions focus on the merits of technology. Using blended courses provides an opportunity for discussions of what makes good pedagogy (teaching and learning) as well as concrete ways technology can serve to enhance the implementation of the principles of good teaching. This presentation will include affective dimensions of faculty experience in using technology in blended courses, namely faculty members are not pedagogy specialists and as such may feel deficient in analyzing or reflecting on how to use technology to serve good teaching. Also, because it may involve being a neophyte is technology use they may experience the feeling of being imposters rather than experts.
10:40am - 11:25am When Language, Culture, and Technology Meet
Speaker: Sabine Levet, Lecturer Romance Languages and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University
This session will present Cultura, a web based methodology and accompanying on line tools designed to help students in a language course gradually build their understanding of a foreign culture. Participants will gain insights into the pedagogical concepts, design and content principles, which have informed the development of Cultura.
11:25am - 12:10pm Lunch
12:10pm - 1:00pm The Case Against Technology
Speaker: Jim Jer-Don, Department of Modern Languages, The Winsor School
An experienced classroom teacher and curriculum developer will discuss the tensions that arise between the ideals of progressive pedagogy and the growing call for more technology in the classroom.
1:00pm - 1:45pm Pedagogy and Late Adopters
Speaker: Glenn Everett, Director of Instructional Technology, Stonehill College
Among faculty, late adopters of technology present different challenges than do early or middle adopters, and usually their sole motivation for adopting an instructional technology is pedagogical. We cannot assume that they will change their ways of doing things because the newer methods seem easier to us. Perhaps we should also change the kind of assessment questions that we ask: late adopters are unlikely to be much impressed by user satisfaction surveys. Once won over, however, these faculty can wind up being the strongest advocates of technologies and pedagogical methods that produce significant results.
1:50pm - 2:35pm Bringing Theory into Practice
Speaker: Malcolm Brown, Director, Academic Computing, Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Learning theory is a vital point of departure when planning a curriculum, renovating space, and designing the supporting technologies. But what are some practical ways to begin leveraging the theory in the daily practices of teaching and learning? How can it best inform our practice? This presentation will focus on design principles as one way to map from theory into practice.
2:40pm - 3:25pm Pedagogy that SHINEs: Interdisciplinary Service Learning Experiences
Speakers:
Janet Simons, Faculty Support Specialist, Hamilton College
Patricia O'Neill Ph.D., Professor of English, Hamilton College
Students in Patricia O'Neill's Globalization and Cinema course were given the option to pursue a service learning experience as tutors for adult ESL learners at the Utica Refugee Center (SHINE http://www.projectshine.org/). In this interdisciplinary sophomore seminar course, students were asked to reflect upon the unique perspectives of the service learning experience, relate their observations to themes of Globalization, and then demonstrate their learning experience by creating a short documentary film.
We will present the Globalization & Cinema course design in terms of how technology enhances the students’ learning and creates and interactive environment between student/teachers and immigrant learners, which supports the conceptual and intellectual goals of the course on globalization. We anticipate this course example will serve as a basis for discussion of the role of collaboration between teachers and learners at every level, including instructional technologists and faculty learners.
3:25pm End
Speaker:
Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown is Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College. In this role, he furnishes computing support for teaching and learning, research, classroom technology, and media production. Over the past several years he has been on the planning committee for four focus sessions for the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI), including the series on learning spaces. He is the author of the chapter on learning spaces in the ELI eBook "Educating the Net Generation." He has also participated as a faculty member in several space planning workshops for Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL). He is currently a member of the Educause Evolving Technologies Committee. He has also served as chair of the board of directors of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and is a collaborator for the NMC's Horizon project. Malcolm holds a pair of BA degrees from UC Santa Cruz, studied in Freiburg, Germany, on a pair of Fulbright scholarships, and has a PhD in German Studies from Stanford University. He has taught several courses in Dartmouth's Jewish Studies program. He is a member of the Frye Institute class of 2002.
Speaker:
Glenn Everett
Glenn Everett is founding Director of Instructional Technology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. He has over 20 years' experience as a faculty member in English at George Washington, Brown, Temple, and the University of Tennessee at Martin. At UTM he was also Director of the Faculty Multimedia Center and served on the committee which set up the University of Tennessee's online New College (_http://www.utm.edu/newcollege/_). After coming to Stonehill in 2002 Everett set up the Learning and Technology Center (_http://www.stonehill.edu/instructional_), and last year was chosen as a Fellow of the Frye Institute.
Speaker:
Jim Jer-Don
Jim Jer-Don has been a classroom teacher for 19 years, teaching at all levels from pre-Kindergarten to graduate students. He is responsible for developing and implementing the Spanish language curriculum in grades 5 through 8 at the Winsor School, an independent school for girls in Boston, MA. he also serves as the "grade-level facilitator" for the 6th grade. He has been labeled a neo-Luddite by some and a technophobe by others.
Speaker:
Matt Laliberte
Matt Laliberte has a BA in English Teaching from the University of New Hampshire, an MS in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation from Syracuse University, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction at Boston College. He is the Instructional Technologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, working with faculty members to design, develop and implement technology-based teaching and learning solutions that are grounded in instructional design and learning theory. Matt also functions as Program Manager of the Institute's Teaching Technology Fellowship, a two-year project-based initiative that provides faculty members with targeted instructional and technological support for the teaching challenges.
Matt has presented at numerous local and national conferences, including NERCOMP, the Kelly Conference, and the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching.
Speaker:
Sabine Levet
Sabine Levet is currently a Lecturer in French in the Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She taught at MIT from 1988 to 2001. She is one of the original developers of Cultura http://web.mit.edu/french/cultura/ , with Gilberte Furstenberg (MIT) and Shoggy Waryn (Brown). She is the co-author, with Gilberte Furstenberg, of a Teacher's guide and a Student Activities workbook for the French Language CD-ROM Dans un quartier de Paris (http://www.yale.edu/yup/chapters/078471chap.htm) , published by Yale University Press. Sabine Levet has given numerous talks and workshops on the integration of technology into the foreign language curriculum and on the teaching and learning of culture, and has written articles about the development of tools for cross-cultural understanding.
Speaker:
Gary McCloskey, O.S.A.
Gary McCloskey, O.S.A. is Dean of the College, Chaired Professor of Augustinian Pedagogy and Director of the Saint Augustine Institute for Learning and Teaching at Merrimack College. He serves on the Augustinian Order’s International Commission for Educational Centers as well as on the Board of Trustees of Villanova University. At Merrimack and internationally, he has developed a focus on Augustinian Pedagogy. His research has also included studies on instructional technology, curriculum and educational policy. He has three co-authored books including Computers, Curriculum and Cultural Change: An Introduction for Teachers (1st and 2nd editions).z
Beyond writing on the pedagogy of instructional technology, Fr. McCloskey has advanced the cultural change in the use of instructional technology at two higher education institutions. In the case of Saint Thomas University this involved securing in excess of $2million to retrofit that campus to address the digital divide at a minority serving institution. He also teaches instructional technology teacher preparation courses.
Fr. McCloskey earned his B.A. at Villanova University, his M.A. in Theology from the Catholic University of America and his Ph.D. in Instructional Leadership at the University of Miami. He earned a post-doctoral M.A. in Computing in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Speaker:
Patricia O’Neill
Patricia O’Neill a member of Hamilton’s English department since 1986, O'Neill teaches courses 19th century British literature and film. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is the author of Robert Browning and 20th Century Criticism (1995) and editor of Olive Schreiner's 1883 novel Story of an African Farm (2002). O’Neill continues researching globalization, and is currently writing a biography of Amelia Edwards, A Victorian traveler to Egypt. http://academics.hamilton.edu/english/poneill/.
Speaker:
Janet Simons
Janet Simons specializes in faculty outreach to identify technical and pedagogical issues of interest or concern. She assists faculty with course and assignment designs that incorporate technology for targeted learning goals. She coordinates faculty development efforts around the use of technology in learning. Janet's primary interests are in the structure and assessment of learning outcomes. She focuses on digital video and the use of film in teaching. Before joining Instructional Technology at Hamilton, Janet taught biology courses at the University of New Orleans.
Related Media Files:
http://64.3.162.168/media/NERCOMP P SIG Brown.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/P Word reading list.pdf
http://64.3.162.168/media/LS Design Prin exercise.pdf
http://64.3.162.168/media/A Brief History of Learning Theory.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/NERCOMP 0106.ppt
http://64.3.162.168/media/Pedagogy-Hamilton.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Please call the Southbridge Hotel directly at 508.765.8000. The room rate is $99.
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