When Lectures Are Not Enough
August 29th, 2005When a professor at San Diego State University saw that her lectures weren’t enough to get her students engaged, she turned to new adaptive technologies. From the article:
“Before the workshop, Amtower had used Blackboard and her own Web pages; after the workshop, she incorporated blogs, wikis, Flickr, RSS feeds, and digital storytelling into her curriculum. But the interaction with colleagues at the workshop was equally as beneficial as the instruction. Out of that interaction came the realization that she wanted her students to be “touched and changed” by the literature they studied.”
“You have to keep giving the information to them in a new format,” she said. “The format is everything because that makes them look at it differently. These new tools I have will only be good for a year and them I’m going to need some new ones! That’s going to be the trick for us – trying to keep always one step ahead so that we’re showing them something new and exciting that makes them want to do more of it.”
Librarians, take note.