SATHE Keynote 2017

Keynote presentation on Human-Technology Intersection in Higher Education presented at the Study and Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education symposium 2017, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal.

https://youtu.be/0stJ-YDy4uQ?t=38s

Transcript

1. Human-Technology Intersection in Higher Education Simon Thomson NTF SFHEA Head of Digital Pedagogy Centre for Learning & Teaching digisim #SATHE2017
2. Background digisim
3. What is Digital Pedagogy? “Digital Pedagogy is precisely not about using digital technologies for teaching and, rather, about approaching those tools from a critical pedagogical perspective. digisim
4. What is Digital Pedagogy? “Digital Pedagogy is precisely not about using digital technologies for teaching and, rather, about approaching those tools from a critical pedagogical perspective. So, it is as much about using digital tools thoughtfully as it is about deciding when not to use digital tools, and about paying attention to the impact of digital tools on learning.” http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/digitalpedagogy/ digisim
5. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2017 by tpack.org • Pedagogical Content Knowledge: How to teach particular subject-based material • Technological Content Knowledge: How to select and use technologies to communicate particular subject knowledge • Technological Pedagogical Knowledge: How to use particular technologies when teaching digisim
8. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2017 by tpack.org Where we want our academic staff to be. digisim
9. Digital Pedagogy is about making the best use of our digital & physical resources. digisim
10. Digital Pedagogy is about making the best use of our digital & physical resources. Human-Technology Integration digisim
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16. Human-Technology Intersection Today? digisim
17. Human-Technology Intersection Today? digisim
18. Reality digisim #SATHE2017
19. “the focus is on helping people do their jobs, not replacing people” David Clark - Amazon digisim
20. “Atlas is being designed to perform rescue functions in situations where humans cannot survive.” John Markoff - New York Times digisim
21. Human-Technology Intersection is about making the best use of our digital & physical resources. digisim
22. Human-Technology Intersection is happening all around us. It’s part of our everyday. digisim
23. Human-Technology Intersection is about making the best use of our digital & physical resources. digisim
24. Wikipedia digisim
25. Wikipedia: List of countries by smartphone penetration in 2017. digisim
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27. Education digisim
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30. “human interaction, with all of its messiness and complexity, is not easily automated.” Paul LeBlanc - Educause
31. “The act of teaching isn’t just imparting what’s in your head to a captive audience. Teaching is a performance, it’s reading the room and working it. This is where technology really falls short. Empathy is a key area of difficulty for technology and automation.” Harpreet Purewal - Guardian digisim
32. “Technology will never replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of a great teacher can be transformational.” George Couros digisim
33. “the use of technology in the classroom doesn’t lessen the need for great teachers…… it is great teachers who make using technology so significant in students’ education” Abigail Bryant digisim
34. “it’s the educators’ ability to leverage technology to personalize and streamline the learning process for students that makes blended learning an effective way to maximize the impact of teacher time through direct instruction”. Brooke, 2015 digisim
35. Students digisim
37. 87% teachers believe new technologies are creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans” and 64% say today’s digital technologies “do more to distract students than to help them academically.” https://www.pewinternet.org/2012/11/01/how-teens-do-research-in-the-digital-world/
38. “What we’re labeling as ‘distraction,’ some see as a failure of adults to see how these kids process information, ....…….. that the label of ‘distraction’ is a judgment of this generation.” Kristen Purcell, the Associate Director for Research at Pew
40. “So what do Net Geners want from learning technology? Interactivity—whether it is with a computer, a professor, or a classmate. They want it; they crave it.” https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/educating-net-generation/using-technology-learning-tool-not-just-cool-new-thing digisim
41. “I just want the technology to help me do the tasks I need to do quickly and efficiently” What our students are telling us. “I use my (smart) phone for everything but wish I could access more university stuff through it” “I like it when staff use technology to make the teaching engaging” digisim
42. What devices are our students using? http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6662/1/Jiscdigitalstudenttracker2017.pdf digisim
43. Human-Technology Interaction. digisim A personal device.
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45. Culture digisim
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48. “Transformation is more about the human and organisational aspects of teaching and learning than it is about the use of technology” Laurillard, D. (2007) digisim
49. “higher education, like health care, is a highly regulated industry that remains slow to change” digisim Paul LeBlanc - Educause
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52. Conversation digisim
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58. A conversational framework for digital pedagogy. digisim
59. Connections digisim
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65. Human-Technology Interaction. digisim
66. 1. What human interactions are most critical for student success? digisim
67. 1. What human interactions are most critical for student success? 2. How can technology enable better versions of those interactions? digisim
68. 1. What human interactions are most critical for student success? 2. How can technology enable better versions of those interactions? 3. Where can technology replace people so that human resources can be redirected to accomplish more of those interactions? digisim Paul LeBlanc - Educause
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