LAIBS Learning and Teaching Conference
Innovating our curriculum through social media and technology
Dr Helen Webster, Anglia Learning and Teaching
Dr Debbie Holley,Dept of Education
Why do we need to innovate the curriculum?• Knowledge gets out of date faster and faster – it has
a shorter half-life• Knowledge is growing exponentially and there is
more knowledge than can ever be contained in the curriculum
• The knowledge is out there on the Internet anyway• Core skills are changing or becoming redundant• Students are not learning in the way we expect,
sometimes circumventing or undermining processes
All of this has something to do with digital technology
A Clash of Two Cultures
Question:
What annoys/irritates/frustrates you most about your students’ use of Digital Technology in their Learning?
Clash of Two Cultures
Academia Digital, Social Media• Teacher-created, student
consumed• Large scale broadcast• Authority, one-to-many• Final, authoritative version• Closed, determined• Individual lone scholar• Plagiarism, possession of
ideas• Academic Text (some images)
• User-created and consumed ‘produser’
• Small scale narrowcast• Peer, many-to-many• Early release, perpetual
beta• Open, emergent• Networked, collaborative• Frictionless creation and
sharing• Multi-media, multi genre
Synergy of Two Cultures
Digital Social Media Education• User-created and
consumed ‘produser’• Small scale narrowcast• Peer, many-to-many• Early release, perpetual
beta• Open, emergent• Networked, collaborative• Frictionless creation and
sharing• Multimedia
• Student as active partner in learning
• Tailored, personalised learning
• Collaborative, constructivist
• Assess process, not product
• Dynamic, creative curriculum
• Peer learning• Capturing and sharing
learning • Multimodal learning
Digital Openness
Think creatively…
Affordances and technological determinismVs Emergent, creative use in tune with digital culture and good pedagogy
Digital TechnologyAre we talking about…
• Using technology to enhance how we teach, learn and assess? (do things differently)
• Reviewing how and what we teach, how and what students learn, in a world which is altered by technology? (do different things, flip the classroom!)
Definitions: Social Media
•Web 2.0•User generated content*•Networked and shared, many to many
•*Content: ▫Multimedia (including text)▫Metadata and curation▫Edits, additions and comments
What do you create as teacher?
Curriculum
Assessment design
Presentation
materials
(Annotated) Reading
lists
Guides and
Handbooks
Assessment criteria
and feedback
Handouts
What students create:
• Notes from teaching and reading
• Anything they need to process learning (more notes)
• Assignments
Some ideas….Bibliograwiki•Discussion forum/Twitter suggest
search terms, likely formats and databases, crowdsource suggestions
•Mendeley/Delicious Collate and curate a reading list, tag with metadata
•Wiki Summarise and annotate reading list
•Blog Critique articles/books•Wiki Synthesise debates and trends
Some ideas…Hack the Lecture• Wiki develop the curriculum and keep it updating
throughout• Twitter/Discussion Forum Crowdsource questions and
topics to cover in module/lecture• Powerpoint/Dropbox students research and create a
slide each• (Lecture, using student-created slides) Looking things up
on mobile devices• Blog/Twitter/mindmap software Liveblog or livetweet
the lecture• Wiki/Storify lecture notes into a collaborative version• Youtube/lecturecapture/Audacity Student-edited clips
of the main points of the lecture (audio/video)
Some ideas…The social assignment• Wiki/discussion forum Students suggest and discuss
assignments, materials and assessment criteria• Blog: Students select assignment, and blog weekly
progress: ▫Question analysis▫Essay plan▫Search strategies and reading notes▫Rough draft ▫Revised draft▫Anticipated feedback▫Response to feedback
• Students share exemplars and annotate
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