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Supersizing the Classroom: 3000 Students & Beyond

Event Interactive 2012
Format Dual
Organizer John Boyer – Virginia Tech
Speakers
  1. John Boyer – Virginia Tech
  2. Katie Pritchard – Virginia Tech
Description A standard, supposedly self-evident fact: small class size is pedagogically superior for all student learning. Poppycock! This presentation will outline our successful strategies for expanding the conventional college classroom to 3000 students...and beyond. Combining a dynamic speaker with innovative technologies, social networking tools, and non-conventional sources of knowledge can produce an environment which fosters student engagement, content retention, deep comprehension, and lifelong curiosity...even in ultra-large classes. Integrating video podcasts, graphic novels, film, Facebook, Twitter, Poll Everywhere, and Ustream into course structure can increase choices and flexibility in student-centered activities/assignments, and facilitate increased teacher-student and student-to-student interaction. This course model challenges conventional class-size wisdom, conquers the confines of physical classrooms, and defies the old-school, teacher-centered pedagogy of centuries past.
Questions
Answered
  1. How can we use social networking technologies to increase interaction in an educational environment, from both a teacher-student and a student-to-student perspective?
  2. What specific technologies and techniques can be used to actually increase student participation in the classroom, even as the size of the class increases radically?
  3. How can social networking, and the web in general, be used to create valuable educational experiences?
  4. How can technology be used to move education outside the conventional classroom?
  5. What can we expect in the future as higher education evolves from the standard teacher-centered pedagogy to more student-focused learning exchanges?
Level Intermediate
Supporting Material 'This is learning in action' http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/176886 Superhero draws Virginia Tech students to class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiXsBcYC6o0 Virginia Tech professor's artwork used in Libyan protests http://www2.wsls.com/news/2011/feb/24/vt-professors-artwork-used-libyan-protests-ar-865778/ Plaid Avenger tweets keep news sensible http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/16412/plaid-avenger-tweets-keep-news-sensible The Plaid Avenger's Official Website (the presenters' main educational tool) http://www.plaidavenger.com
Category Education / Online Learning
Tags educational technology, interactive classroom, teaching
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