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One of the first activities under our All Children Reading grant was a training workshop on repair and maintenance of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) laptops that started on January 28th. Some of the participants were youth and staff who have been working with the laptops in our libraries; others include Zambia Library Service staff and IT personnel from other partner organizations. But this workshop also provided IT training for highly vulnerable youth who have found opportunities in our libraries, including girls and boys who have come off the streets and live in the communities of our libraries, seeking support to attend school. We hope that laptop repair will be an important income-generating activity for them, and, perhaps more importantly, give them confidence and enhanced self-esteem.
The workshop was led by Christoph Derndorfer, an OLPC expert from Vienna.
Photo courtesy of Christoph Derndorfer
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Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling. Photo by: Philip Channing.
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling. Photo by Philip Channing
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling.
On April 30, elementary students from across Vancouver came together to showcase their personalized work with learning technology at the 1rst annual District Digital Fair.
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling.
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling. Photo by: Philip Channing.
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling. Photo by Philip Channing
Web-based tools and mobile apps exist to mimic paper and pen practice. Highlighting and 'post-it' notes can be added to digital documents such as Word Docs and PDFs to annotate and comment. The benefit of digital annotation comes from the ability to search and quickly navigate through annotated or highlighted passages.
Tejas Shah, an undergradate student pursuing a degree in business administration, uses his smart phone to respond to an in-class polling.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Quizzes can be used to structure self-paced online study, i.e. approaches that require the student to engage with material in their own time and using classroom time for discussion and debate (flipped classroom concept). Quizzes can also be used to trigger adaptive release in some virtual learning environments.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Quizzes can be used to record and track student progress over a period of time.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. This image represents traditional computer files (left) and the way they need to be downloaded from a server before editing, then reuploaded for storing, and Google Docs (right) which are editable in the web browser and require no download/reupload process. Files can be hosted by Google Drive, but require the download/reupload process. Google Documents can only exist in Google Drive, unless you export them and in that case they must be treated like files.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Representing 'otherwise indisposed' as a person reading a book under a palm tree on a desert island. Google Drive allows you to share documents (and always the current, up to date version) with colleagues for when you are on holiday / under a bus.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Use online quizzes as more engaging past-paper revision exercises, as they provide immediate feedback in terms of the correct answer and/or tutor comments on common pitfalls.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Google Docs can be shared with students as templates (left), which they can then copy and complete before being able to share them to peers, tutors, or on the web (right, top to bottom).
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Many online services are available across multiple electronic personal devices, Google Drive is no exception. Laptop, mobile, tablet and cloud.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Google Docs have powerful collaboration settings allowing you to control who can contribute, comment or simply view your document. This gets over the multiple-version problem caused by emails.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Use a quiz pre-session to identify student weaknesses or use student surveys and feed into the session as data to analyse. Shown here by a bar graph drawn on sketch pad.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. All files and Google Docs stored on Google Drive can be searched with a private version of Google Search. This is extremely fast and even searches PDFs. It's like keeping a filing cabinet full of documents, journal articles, slides, presentations, teaching materials, etc and being able to find them instantly.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Google Docs allow commenting and discussion within comments. This allows a reviewer to interact with a document author in ways not previously possible. This could be used for formative feedback.
Our surveys of incoming students shows that desktop computer ownership is approximately 22%. Whereas mobile device ownership is increasing rapidly. Approx 93% of our first year students own a laptop or tablet, with 78% having an internet-enabled mobile phone.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Using a Google Doc for collaboration gets over common version control issues resulting from email. This picture shows the case of bad version control resulting from email collaboration. Shows: A creating Version 1 (V1) of a document and sharing it with B and C for commenting, who subsequently return V2 each. A compiles these into V3 before returning to B and C. However, C forwarded their comments on V1 to D (as V2C) who subsequently passes it onto others resulting in G having a completely different V3 than the bone fide document.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Quizzes can be used post-session to provide recap opportunities and refreshers of key concepts through encouraging the student to rethink material. Post-session quizzes can also be used to tell the lecturer/tutor/teacher where topics were not fully understood by the class as a whole, by looking at poor performing questions.
In lectures we are seeing more students turning to laptops, tablets and smartphones to aid their in-class learning. This 'wall of laptops' hides both a multitude of sins (Facebook) and empowerment of the student (drawing upon resources from the internet to complement or challenge the lecturer). Note-taking can also be encouraged in digital form, pulling together such resources as the lecture progresses.
Learning and Technology: Online quizzes. Embedded within a learning activity or using quizzes as the underpinning technology for a learning activity. For example, analysing data from a geographical / world map and interpreting it. Quizzes providing immediate feedback to the student on how they are performing.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Google Docs can be shared to others as templates or used collaboratively so other fill in spaces provided.
Learning and Technology: Google Drive. Company/organisation network space often has backups and hence is more secure if your account is hacked as the backups cannot be touched. Network space is also quicker to use and allows editing of files without download/upload processes. Google Docs is good for archiving and collaboration.