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When All Students Have Thinkpads
A Presentation at the First Annual ThinkPad University Conference
Orlando, Florida, April 15, 1999
by David G. Brown
Wake Forest University
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Outline of Remarks
• Introduction
• Update re Wake Forest
• The Most Important Thing to Remember about Computers & Teaching+Learning
• Your Lists of Lessons Learned
• Update re ICCEL
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Why All Eyes Are On US
• Top of the Line Computers
• Portability
• Significant Standardization
• Fullest Service Vendor
• Fund to Succeed
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New Computer & LoadUndergraduates + MBA + Med School + Divinity School
• Pentium II 333Mhz• 6 GB hard drive• 128 MB RAM• 14.1 Active Matrix• 4 MBPS InfraRed Port• Lithium Ion Battery• SVGA video out• 56 KBPS Modem• Ethernet, CD ROM
• Windows 98• MS Office Prof 97• Netscape 4.5• Norton AntiVirus 5• Dreamweaver 2• SPSS 9.0• Maple 5.1
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What’s New at ICCEL?
• June 16-18 Conference for faculty re “How to Computer Enhance Your Teaching” http://iccel.wfu.edu
• Electronically Enhanced Education: A Case Study of Wake Forest University ($10)
• Always In Touch ($10)
• Active Planning for Conference Schedule Next Year
• Consultancies (often video)
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Recent Passion
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Customization
• Interactive
• Interdependent
• Individualized
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From the times of
Craft Guilds & Small Townswe have “known” that ---
• Most learning is collaborative
• Frequent feedback increases learning
• Loyalty-to-group motivates learning
• More time on task usually means more learning
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Beliefs of 91/93 Vignette AuthorsPedagogy and Philosophy
• Interactive Learning
• Learn by Doing
• Collaborative Learning
• Integration of Theory and Practice
• Communication
• Visualization
• Different Strokes for Different Folks
From Interactive Learning Forthcoming June, 1999From Anker PublishingDavid G. Brown, Editor
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Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning Via--
PresentationsBetter--20%
More Opportunities toPractice & Analyze--35%
More Access to SourceMaterials via Internet--43%
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates,and Between Faculty and Students--87%
Source = Wake Forest Students and Faculty
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Computers allow people----
• to belong to more communities• to be more actively engaged in each
community• with more people• over more miles• for more months and years• TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE
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YOU NAME LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT--
Marketing
Assessment
Teaching and Learning
Administrative Computing
Cost Savings
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Rules for Play
• Divide into Teams of Four
• Chair = Name That’s First in Alphabet
• Recorder = Name That’s Second
• Team Writes Down the BEST Two Lessons in EACH of the five categories
• Each Team Posts Ideas on the Wall So We Can Vote
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Guidelines for Voting
• Put Blue Dots on the Ten Most Important Lessons Listed (excluding your teams’)
• Put Yellow Dots on the Three Greatest Ideas that are worth considering to take back home and apply.
• Put Red Dots on all lessons learned that would not apply at your campus
• THE TEAM WITH THE MOST BLUE + YELLOW DOTS WINS A REAL PRIZE
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Highest Vote Getters re Lessons50+ PEOPLE FROM ABOUT 20 THINKPAD USING COLLEGES
• Top Administration must experience the technology
• Buy the computers coming off lease for resale at cost to the parents of incoming freshmen so they can communicate w their children
• Reduce support/training costs by building better on line self help solutions
• Market the whole program, not just the hardware
• Integrate campus information systems to the laptop program to facilitate
• Students need to be more utilized for t&l of faculty
• Define measurable objectives
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RESPONSIBIL
ITY
OPPORTUNITY
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THINK MASTER-APPRENTICE
Spend $s on CCC + Don’t Wire Every Seat + Avoid Sinkholes
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David G. BrownWake Forest University
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109336-758-4878
email: [email protected]//:www.wfu.edu/~brown
fax: 336-758-4875