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Beyond “Chalk and Talk”: Using Tablet PCs to Engage Students and Improve Student Understanding Steven A. Wolfman Computer Science University of British Columbia w/the Presenter teams at UW, UCSD, UBC My Stated Goal Get you interested in Classroom Presenter and excited about the idea of (re)designing instructional technologies for your own needs. My Secret Agenda Get you to develop the next great instructional technology (so I can use it for my students). Talk Format Quick overview of a developing technology Classroom Presenter design discussion Next steps for Classroom Presenter Next steps for you Least Valuable Instructional Technology What is the least valuable technology for your students’ learning? Most Promising Technology What is the most promising, underutilized technology for your students’ learning? Study of a Failing Technology: Textbooks My students don’t read the textbook.(Can you believe it?!) Using Textbook Technology Effectively How do I use textbooks effectively?I interrogate them. How can I get students to use them effectively?Change the process so that students learn by practice to interrogate the book. Reclaiming Textbook Technology Every week, students submit a question, with no restrictions except that it must: be their own, be in their own handwriting, and include the referenced page # of the book. Reclaiming Textbook Technology… continued Great idea! Now you have 80 questions… Instructional technologies develop with real use! Our solution: select a random subset of 10 (plus any I specifically want to answer); post answers to a new newsgroup dedicated to weekly reading questions. How to Develop Classroom Presenter Early Presenter Source of Greatest Pain What’s wrong with PowerPoint? Prehistoric Presenter (2002) “Separation of Views” Prehistoric Projection View (2002) (Re)Building the User Interface and Social Processes Scrolling in Practice Explain-and-Erase Se ville dere dago Tousan buses inaro Nojo dose id trux Summit ges