1. 24 October 2011
Using new Technology as a vehicle to
effect changes in teaching and learning
practice
Colleen Hurley, James Mackay and Shane Taplin
Wellington Institute of Technology
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2. Changing Teaching and
Learning Practice
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3. The Current Situation at WelTec
• Poor pedagogical practice - different Learning
Styles - not interactive enough
• Student centred blended learning
• Lack of engagement with our Learning
Management System
• Lack of self confidence in using new technology
• Lack of self confidence in using new technology
• Poor reflective practice
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4. Our vision of Teaching and Learning
at WelTec
 Student Centred
 Classroom activity and/or problem based
 Blended learning environment
 Self paced mastery of material
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5. Our Model for Effecting Change
Using Action Research
 Evaluating the use of technology
 Improve reflective practice
– Learn to use diagnostic tests to understand student
problems
– Learn to initiate and become comfortable with change
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6. Why New Technology?
• Shifts the focus of the problem from deeper
issues of poor pedagogical practice to a surface
issue of mode of delivery
• Can then address deeper issues as part of a
wider project
• Will help tutors think about the real problems in
teaching and learning
• Small scale lead into much larger change
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7. Making Pencasts with Smartpens
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8. What are Smartpens and what do
they do?
 A way of recording handwriting and audio
 Then allow digital playback of both
 Saved as a Pencast
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9. What are Pencasts and how do we
make them?
 Pencasts allow you to hear, see and relive notes
exactly as they were captured
 Saved in PDF format for use by students
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10. How do we use Pencasts to improve
learning?
• Help students learn trade calculations
• Help engineering students learn how to solve
physics problems
• Outline simple ideas for students
• Collect data about how students think when they
solve mathematical problems
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11. Integrating iPads into our Teaching
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12. Creating blended learning courses
• Used in Automotive Electronics
• Apps integrated with eBooks
• So far variable response
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13. Managing Teaching
• Organising their teaching resources
• Tutor can access documents at any time
• Students access information in class
• Flexibility
• Create videos in class
• Apps available for use in class
• “Teachable moment is always with us”
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14. Assessments
• Recording assessments in workshop
• Take photos or video for evidence
• Show good and bad workmanship to improve
standards
• Peer assessment
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15. Using Visualisers to enhance
our teaching
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16. What we are doing with the
Visualiser
• Horticulture using it to record video for botany
and take still images of various aspects of
demonstrations
• IT using it to record video for demonstrating
hardware components and hard disk recovery
• Automotive using it to record video for
demonstrating components and how they work

17. Progress to date
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18. Progress to date
• Just finished a pilot with the Pencasts
• Considering expanding in 2012
• iPads in middle of pilot
• Want more student use in 2012
• Visualisers hardly started
• Not a great uptake so far
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19. 24 October 2011
Using new Technology as a vehicle to
effect changes in teaching and learning
practice
Colleen Hurley, James Mackay and Shane Taplin
Wellington Institute of Technology
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