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"If students are not using laptops to take notes..it is because faculty are not fully engaging them. I think we can and should leverage our students' existing technology skills!"
- GradStudent on insidehighered.com
Give students clear guidelines
Geek out on your own first
If you want your students to tweet you well, then you need to tweet them well
Stephanie Chasteen
CU-Boulder Physics Department
Science Education Initiative
Luc Legay, Flickr
How do we manage digital distraction?
ban laptops?
"[The time I want students to pay attention] begins the moment I walk into the classroom and ends the moment I leave it. "Lids Down" down time is therefore all the time."
- Taylor Stoermer on insidehighered.com
Lids down time?
Learning is social
Metacognition is important
Interactive engagement
improves learning
you do have that power...
Motivation & relevance
important
But that's not a service to the students
Jeff Werner, Flickr
They...
They use it a LOT
Social contract?
What we get is digital distraction...
(Diane Sieber, CU)
metacognition!
Physics Dept., University of Colorado
Boulder
blogging -> microblogging
twitter? not so much
A student's opinion: "At worst, I play a game of solitaire (something to do with my hands while listening...tantamount to doodling, which actually increases my attention span" ("me" on insidehighered.com)
really?
Like Twitter in conference
who's tweeting right now?
learning is social
reduce cognitive load
“I would much rather be texting a student usefully at 9:30 on a Saturday than playing catch-up in a purposeless office visit.”
- instructor