NPR this past Sunday had a report on Jose Bowen, dean of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, and the impact he's recently made talking about the rather provacative style called "teaching naked." The nakedness however, isn't about obscenity but about moving technology use outside the classroom through online games and podcasts to ramp students up BEFORE class.
Essentially this is the same idea that Dr. Dave Berque from DePauw University has been using last year except the name has been changed to protect the innocent to "the upside down classroom." Here's a video of Dr. Berque describing his experiments with an Upside-Down Classroom from the DyKnow University series. The main focus from both was to take advantage of technology to replace traditional lecture-based classtime. The advantage, then is having more classtime for active learning as well as the ability to be available for questions/discussion when dealing with the more challenging content.
Dr. Berque uses DyKnow's audio capture feature to record the content before class. Then he sent the DyKnow notebooks to students who were able to watch the lecture as homework. There are a couple of ways you can distribute the notebooks to students (a question that has been coming up quite a bit as people find out about this possibility). You can simply email the notebook file to your students, host it on your school's shared network folder, or you can use a CMS such as Blackboard or Moodle. Then students need only sign in to the DyKnow server (once) and they'll be able to replay the lecture notes with the audio synched up.
Essentially this is the same idea that Dr. Dave Berque from DePauw University has been using last year except the name has been changed to protect the innocent to "the upside down classroom." Here's a video of Dr. Berque describing his experiments with an Upside-Down Classroom from the DyKnow University series. The main focus from both was to take advantage of technology to replace traditional lecture-based classtime. The advantage, then is having more classtime for active learning as well as the ability to be available for questions/discussion when dealing with the more challenging content.
Dr. Berque uses DyKnow's audio capture feature to record the content before class. Then he sent the DyKnow notebooks to students who were able to watch the lecture as homework. There are a couple of ways you can distribute the notebooks to students (a question that has been coming up quite a bit as people find out about this possibility). You can simply email the notebook file to your students, host it on your school's shared network folder, or you can use a CMS such as Blackboard or Moodle. Then students need only sign in to the DyKnow server (once) and they'll be able to replay the lecture notes with the audio synched up.
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