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Birgit Loch

Mathematics/FEISEngineering and Science Education Research Group (ESER)

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Teaching with Tablets

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Overview• What is tablet technology• Tablets in face to face classes• Lecture recording• Marking• Synchronous online teaching• Immediate feedback via tablets• The FEIS/ESER tablet project• Going wireless• MathsCasts


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How did I get involved in educational technologies?


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What is tablet technology?


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Why write on the computer?

• Keep record of all writing in class• Can refer back• Can make available to students• Can record development as video – e.g.

via Lectopia• Students focus on one screen• Develop slides with students


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Tablets in library classes: Kaye England/ Ranald Simpson, USQ


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Tablets in German language teaching: Gabriela Pohl, USQ


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Tablets in maths teaching


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Tablets in maths lecturing


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Tablets in finance lecturing: Peter Phillips, USQ


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Student feedback• “Perfect lecture set up. Perfect course for that matter,

I’ve really enjoyed this subject, each maths subject should have this setup” (UQ student, 2004)

• “It brings the whole lecture virtually anywhere along with you. Loved it. Great approach.” (Swinburne student, 2010)

• “I found the slides to be vital in my learning” (Swinburne student, 2010)


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Lecture recordingDo students still turn up? Case study OR, on campus students• Yes! But why?

> It takes as long to watch a video as it does to attend a live lecture

> Ability to ask questions and receive immediate answer

> Easier to learn in company> Reinforces study schedule> Screencasts are boring


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Marking: Mathematics, with Trevor Langlands, USQ


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Marking: Biodiversity & Conservation, Andy Le Brocque, USQ


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Synchronous online teaching: Mathematics


Clickers for Immediate feedback

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The problem with clickers

A)B)C)D)


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Immediate feedback

• Advanced Concepts Teaching Space(UQ, with Diane Donovan)

• 100 pen-enabled screens, SynchronEyes software

• Test revision sessions


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The sessions• Students were given (incorrect) solutions to

potential test questions, and asked to mark.

• Students were asked to solve potential test questions

• Student work was then selected, displayed and discussed

• Interaction took time


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Selecting student work


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Student feedback

Themes from comments:• ‘engaging’• ‘involved’• ‘interactive’• ‘fun’• ‘useful’• ‘cool’


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2011: Did you learn more in the ACTS lab session than you would have in a normal classroom? (n=87)


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Is there a cheaper version?

• Tablet PCs for students• Graphics tablets connected to lab

computers• ATC 425/426

• MeTL software (Monash Uni)• Netsupport School


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Exam preparation sessions in ATC 425/426


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The FEIS/ESER tablet project• 50+ slate tablets (15 of those for students

in MASH Centre)• 6 pen screens• 15 graphics tablets• Other bits and pieces• Part time project assistant

• In S1 2012: > 31 lecturers/tutors involved in FEIS> 1 in FICT, 1 in FBE


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“Pen screens”• This technology may already be available

in a lecture theatre near you!

• Would you recognize a pen screen?Teaching with Tablets

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Lecturer feedback (from USQ)• led to more engagement with technology in

general• made lectures more dynamic• led to a change in teaching approaches

• “Students are now more involved in contributing”• “In terms of how the use has invigorated my

teaching. […] For the first time in years I have felt excited about my teaching and that is reflected in how I interact with students. So then they get excited”


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Roaming about

In a large lecture theatre,

• what if you were no longer physically separated from your students?

• what if you gave the stylus to your students?


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Going wireless

• Various solutions


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An Example:Make t the subject

𝑦= 2𝑒𝑡+𝑒− 𝑡

𝑒𝑡−3𝑒−𝑡

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Short focused recordings

• “There’s an app for this”


ScreenChomp

Mathscasts.org

http://www.google.com.au/url?url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8&rct=j&sa=X&ei=lZfETsOfN8e0iQfpo7XmDQ&ved=0CCYQ-ggwAA&q=screen+chomp&usg=AFQjCNFvPeqLqH6m9rgZo0F1NCktriSANw

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Short snippets in OR


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What are MathsCasts?

• International, Swinburne-led collaboration• Short screen videos of mathematical explanation• Created with Camtasia Studio on a tablet PC• Created by tutors in the Maths support centres• Do not require expert technical knowledge or

A/V staff to produce


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What are MathsCasts? (cont.)

• Funding at Limerick and Swinburne• About 300 produced so far • Available for free to anyone via iTunes U,

Swinburne Commons http://commons.swin.edu.au and from http://mathscasts.org

Direct link


http://commons.swin.edu.au/

http://mathscasts.org/

http://mathscasts.org/

http://commons.swinburne.edu.au/uploaded/files/logarithmic_differentiation-handwritten-mathscasts.mp4

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Student feedback

• “Yes, I watched them all. They are fantastic, much better than a typed response.”

• “Every time I get stuck on something, I’ll go back to a MathsCast, and it makes it a bit easier to go through questions out of a book” .

This student also said that not only does he find maths easier to grasp, but he has even started enjoying it.


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On BlackBoard


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External recognition


New Media Consortium Horizon Report 2012 Higher Ed Edition

“… identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching and creative inquiry in higher education.“

http://www.nmc.org/publications/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-editionhttp://www.nmc.org/publications/2012-technology-outlook-au

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Over to you, Dr Camtasia!


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