Lids up or lids down?

Jennie Osborn and Natasha Taylor

RIBA, London 22 January 2015

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So . . . . lids up or lids down?

http://macdailynews.com/2007/10/02/lecture_hall_photo_shows_widespread_mac_use/ ,

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 · 8:39 am

In the beginning was the word . . . .

“Over the years, I’ve noticed that when I

do have a specific reason to ask

everyone to set aside their devices (“lids

down,” in the parlance of my

department), it’s as if someone has let

fresh air into the room. The

conversation brightens, and more

recently, there is a sense of relief from

many of the students. Multi-tasking is

cognitively exhausting — when we do it

by choice, being asked to stop can come

as a welcome change.”, Clay Shirky, 2014

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Opening windows . . .

Clay Shirky ‘Why Clay Shirky Banned Laptops, Tablets and Phones from his Classroom’

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-clay-shirky-banned-laptops-tablets-and-phones-from-his-classroom/

15.09.2014 accessed 04/12/2014

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Spot the difference . . .

vs.

Your former lover

tagged a photo you

are in.

The Crimean War was

the first conflict

significantly affected by

use of the telegraph. Field telegraph wire used during the Crimean War, 1855 (c). NAM Accession Number,

NAM. 1965-10-202-4, Copyright/Ownership: National Army Museum Copyright,

http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1965-10-202-4

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Riding the elephant . . .

Travelling Runes, Elephant riding, https://www.flickr.com/photos/travellingrunes/8450712652/

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Whiteboard markers to a gunfight

Ross Griff, OK Corral 1, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rossaroni/5513521600/

• “Learning is about experiencing things and building them into

new and existing contexts.” David Kelly, 8 October 2014

• “Learning happens best in a classroom when everyone is

actively engaged with one another in the exchange of

information.” Anne Curzon, August 24 2014

• Stop lecturing so much. Just stop thinking that teaching means

standing there and talking at them. Steve Krause, 20 Sept 2014

• “The act of typing effectively turns the note-taker into a

transcription zombie, while the imperfect recordings of the

pencil-pusher reflect and excite a process of integration,

creating more textured and effective modes of recall.” Dan

Rockmore, June 2014

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Reactions (and preactions)

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Imag(in)ing your classroom

sholeh! Lecture Hall, https://www.flickr.com/photos/sprochello/3036729806/

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A “collaborative process of focus”

“We often turn to our phones when we lose concentration,

interest or when the lecture becomes incomprehensible, so

I think including our devices will keep us alert and

participating, as well as checking if our understanding is

correct.”

- University of Manchester student

CASE STUDY: University of Manchester - TurningPoint and ResponseWare at the Faculty of

Humanities, http://www.turningpoint.co.uk/content/pdfs/University-of-Manchester.pdf accessed 11

December 2014

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Fighting talk . . . .

https://twitter.com/jessifer/status/499400468632961024

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Student engagement

Behavioural

perspective

•student behaviour

•institutional practices

Psychological

perspective

•cognitive

•affective

•relational

Socio-cultural perspective

• social context

• power

• culture

• discourse

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The engagement gap

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Tools for learning

• recording

• researching

• communicating

• making

• doing

Anne Nortcliffe

#BYOD4L

The 5 Cs

• connecting

• communicating

• curating

• collaborating

• creating

Lachlan, Sharpest tool in the shed, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lox/9408028555/

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. . . and affordances

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Transformative technologies

Reuben Puentedura

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Bloom’s revised taxonomy

strengths weaknesses

opportunities threats

SWAT

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SWAT analysis posi

tive

negative

internal

external

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Can you do it without technology?

Yes

Substitution – why bother?

Partially No

Does the use of technology transform the learning?

Yes

Redefinition

Partially

Modification

No

Augmentation.

Enhan

cem

ent

Transformation

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Plenary

Curzan, Anne, ‘Why I’m asking you not to use laptops’, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 25

2014, http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/08/25/why-im-asking-you-not-to-use-laptops/

(accessed 5 December 2014)

Kelly, David, ‘Why technology belongs in a classroom’, http://davidkelly.me/2014/10/technology-

belongs-classroom/, 8 October 2014 (accessed 4 December 2014).

Krause, Steve, ‘Enough with the “no laptops in classrooms” already’, September 20 2014

http://stevendkrause.com/2014/09/20/enough-with-the-no-laptops-in-classrooms-already/comment-

page-1/ (accessed 5 December 2014)

Rockmore, Dan, ‘The Case for Banning Laptops in the classroom”, The New Yorker, 6 June 2014.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-case-for-banning-laptops-in-the-classroom (accessed 4

December 2014).

Shirky, Clay ‘Why Clay Shirky Banned Laptops, Tablets and Phones from his Classroom’

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-clay-shirky-banned-laptops-tablets-and-phones-from-his-

classroom/ 15 September 2014 (accessed 4 December 2014)

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