Transcript of Existing and Emerging Technology in Teaching and Learning | Prof. Linglingay McDermott

[Music] good day in this session we will be discussing existing and emerging technology in teaching and learning for uh our discussion we will be touching on existing and emerging Technologies and then on a framework on how to pick the tool for a specific activity for the existing and emerging Technologies I will be I have divided them into several categories there are activity tools video tools assessment tools gamification tools social media tools authoring tools collaboration tools and Virtual Worlds the criteria I've um used for picking these tools are that they are web- based no need to download and no need to install and that they are free for the activity tool tools I've divided them into several categories too there's discussion whiteboards infographic tools presentation tools and timeline makers for the discussion tools I've picked um collaborize classroom where you can see you can manage discussion forums and create discussion forums and I've also been using Google Hangouts the chat feature of Google Hangouts for uh discussion board wordss it because for Learners who are quite used to messaging uh Google Hangouts has that feature where they receive their messages or uh discussion messages at like a messaging feature like a texting uh message next is for the for other discussion tools if you have a learning management system there are usually disc discussion board tools included the for whiteboard tools um whiteboards are usually used for collaboration for brainstorming so the tools I've picked for this is tazit as you can see it's they're all just blank pages where you can write on them whether it's handwritten or typewritten sketch lot is another tool twidla and studle are other tools for whiteboards the next is infographic for infographics you can have your students uh create um a summary with uh Graphics of what they've learned or um a poster of what they've learned to just to reflect and summarize their um the content so for these the tools I've picked are canva Pio chart and venage venage is really good because it tracks uh it has analytics so it can track your the people that have viewed your infographic for presentation we have PowerPoint of course and photo Peach photo Peach is basically um a slide maker for photos and same for kizoa but with kizoa you can use uh videos too in your presentation for timeline makers for uh usually use timeline makers to have students maybe summarize the history of um of a topic or the history of a theory so the tools I've used for this is history capsules and time glider where you can see that there are dates uh at the bottom for you to Mark the the year or the date for the event the next the category are videos and we use videos because they are more engaging demonstration friendly and because of the visual cues it facilitates thinking and problem solving so for video tools I've picked ones where you can edit your video and the first one is YouTube editor and PW tun PW tune can help you make uh animated videos and an emerging technology in video is interactive videos where you can add questions or add a discussion board within the video so the tools that you can use to make interactive videos are via logs add puzzle and play pait and usually if you're doing videos you need to sometimes you need to edit audio too so there's Cher bit and audacity for audio editing the next category for technology tools are is programming and this is becoming very popular with Learners right now because um uh this is a skill that's quite important and uh I've picked some websites where you can uh take courses on programming languages so the first one is code academy the next one is scratch where they say from a 9-year-old to a 99y old can use it and it teaches you the logic of programming and also can Academy has a lot of programming uh courses that you can sign up for the next uh technology tool is assessment tools and for this I've picked class tools.net it's a website where you can create your own uh assessment tools from crossford puzzles to multiple choice quizzes or you can use existing ones from the website site there's also quiz Revolution and yaka Paka which also has existing quizzes that you can just use or you can build your own for games I've picked cahoot for to create or to play games for your students and also you can do badges that you can give out to your students for every achievement that they've attained so there's online badgemaker decom and for websites where you can have your students access games there's education.com uh funbrain.com sciencebob.com brainos dcom and the Utah education Network website with social media um this is becoming very popular too since this is something that the Learners are um using every day so you can have them do a Blog uh and have the the tools for that is WordPress blogger and Wix where they can Journal write a journal for their learning or just uh post their answers on their blogs you can also use chat or messaging tools to uh keep in contact with the your learners so there's Google Hangouts line messenger and Viber and Facebook groups are good to to use to for um collaborating or just keeping in touch and with your students Google+ can be used the same way for authoring tools where if you want to make your own modules a self-contained module um these are the tools to use there's easy generator smart Builder and screencast automatic uh for screencastomatic you this is one tool that you'll have to download and install and this doesn't really create a mod a self-contained module but it captures your screen so that if you want to do a demo of a software uh you can use screencast automatic for collaboration tools we have video conferencing and you can use Google Hangouts for that and for project collaboration you have Yammer which looks a lot like uh Facebook so you can add your students here and they can communicate and keep their files here base camp operates the same way and then there's Google Apps for Education where you can use Google Docs or Google Sheets to collaborate on a document same with Wiki spaces where you just add your students and you can collaborate on a topic for Virtual Worlds I only have one uh tool and that's second life and for for this tool to uh you'll have to download and install so with all those tools that I've mentioned how do you know which tools to use Little John and pegler designed a matrix based on Lor lards conversational model based on the type of activities and these type of activities are assimilative adaptive communicative productive and experiential so for the first one ass simulative and this is just processing narrative media managing and structuring information for so for this type of activity you can do lectures or videos or just reading texts so the technology you can use here is word processors where they can do concept mapping and brainstorming or presentation software and um or crossword puzzles the next activity is adaptive and this is where an environment that changes according to learner input so the Technologies for this are V Virtual Worlds where they can do simulation and games and interactive videos the next type of activity is communicative where your students can discuss whether it's asynchronous or synchronous discussions and here you can use electronic whiteboards or discussion boards instant me messaging and video conferencing the next type of activity is productive where Learners produce something so they can create a book or a report an essay or Journal a literature review um they can compose or synthesize so for the Technologies you can use image editing Technologies infographic tools the timeline maker and project collaboration tools the last type of activity is experiential and these are interactive activities that focus on problem solving so with this your learners will be practicing and applying what they have learned so you can do case studies or experiments and laboratory experiments in a virtual lab or interactive videos and this ends our discussion for existing and emerging Technologies and I hope that it'll help you um pick the tools that you will need for your teaching [Music]