{"id":2765,"date":"2017-06-12T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T05:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2017-06-12T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T05:59:28","slug":"creating-active-learning-environment-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/06\/12\/creating-active-learning-environment-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating active learning environment with technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hooper and Rieber (1995) state that the most imperative aspect of integrating educational technology is to create learning environments in which students actively construct knowledge in cognitive partnerships with technology. Technology shouldn\u2019t be the center of the learning. However, it should be tools to assist teachers in promoting better student learning experience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When designing a technology-enhanced learning, educators\/designers of classes should promote active learning approaches such as hands-on virtual experiences, collaborative projects, real-time formative assessments, and student-centered backchannel group discussions with help of educational technology. Firstly, hands-on learning using simulations, augmented reality and virtual reality can enhance the learning experience and help students grasp difficult concepts in STEM classes. Secondly, collaboration through technology in group settings can enhance students\u2019 interaction, engagement, learning and reasoning skills in STEM classes.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thirdly, technology significantly facilitates the use of formative assessment \u2013 this is a frequent, interactive assessment of student progress and understanding (OECD, 2005). Formative assessment software can enable instructors to provide students with more personalized learning and to obtain immediate feedback to reduce misconceptions in STEM classes.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, group discussion utilizing backchannel chat software, like backchannelchat.com and Slack, can provide students with safe and secure class discussion environment that can encourage participation and engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hooper, S. &amp; Rieber, L.P. (1995). Teaching with technology. In A.C. Ornstein (Ed.), Teaching: Theory into practice (pp. 154-170). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OECD (2005), Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms, OECD Publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooper and Rieber (1995) state that the most imperative aspect of integrating educational technology is to create learning environments in which students actively construct knowledge in cognitive partnerships with technology. Technology shouldn\u2019t be the center of the learning. However, it should be tools to assist teachers in promoting better student learning experience. When designing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-design-of-teles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}