We invite you to participate in our Professional Development Workshop
"Teaching With Technology: Hands-On Seismic Examples And Human Insights
For The 21st Century"
<>Program Session #: 97 | Submission: 10289 | Sponsor(s): (TTC, MED, OB,
OCIS)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 6 2005 8:00AM - 11:00AM at Sheraton Waikiki
Beach in Koko Crater Room <>
Here are the Presenters, the Background, the Goals, and the Methods for
our PDW ... <>
Presenters.
Joe Champoux -- incorporating on-line film resources into course design
and delivery <>
Joan Weiner -- bringing together administration, technical experts, and
outside "providers" in developing and delivering courses <>
Deb Armstrong -- employing alternate technologies to enhance
opportunities for student input <>
Bob Marx -- overcoming institutional issues in managing experiential
learning on the web <>
Randy Sleeth -- providing assistance in editing and migrating content
materials among emerging presentation and access technology
Ra<>ndy Dunham -- preparing large-scale projects for delivering
accessible learning to large audiences.
<>Background.<> <>
Like the Hawaiian volcanoes, 21st century technology continues to erupt
with new platforms where we temporarily stand until erosion or new
activity shifts our footing again. As Hawaiians accept geological
forces, management educators must learn to thrive amid the tumults of
technological shifts, both evolutionary and revolutionary. <>
We want to consider the uses of course technology to respond to the
question: What does it mean to be "human" in the era of genetic
engineering and "smart" technology? <>
Our session will alert participants to signals for both erupting and
eroding elements of technology in the teaching and learning of
Management. We will offer an integrated demonstration and discussion
session built upon key challenges and experiences we have differently
encountered with technology. We will emphasize the importance of
grasping technology's implications when we recognize and endorse the
comment that how we remain "human" determines whether technology will a
make a good teacher great or an average teacher terrible. <>
Concept.
Like the Hawaiian volcanoes, technology will remain a given that offers
both beauty and challenges; it will help define and expand each
student's human experiences in our courses. Based upon our varied and
focused experiences, we will assist participants with seismic awareness
of existing potentials across a range of human uses of technology in our
21st century courses. <>
Specific Goals. <>
To provide seismic insights on advantages and challenges that shifting
technology provides in our human learning environments <>
To examine the geologic phases of discovering and reaching our current
states, from small, simple exercise applications to large, comprehensive
whole-course designs. <>
To offer paths and directions for participants to remain human as their
technological environments erupt with fire, scope, and depth. <>
To model what we now can accomplish with technology in our courses, and
to assist participants who want to add rich volcanic soil to their
growing land masses of learning and teaching with technology. <>
To provide every participant with real access (handout, CD or on-line)
to the technological innovations we present.
Methods.
A three-hour session; modified round-table format to include
demonstration, concurrent breakout sessions, and discussion phases. <>
(1) Initial key examples to describe and demonstrate an element of
engaging each presenter's human approach to technology for teaching
Management
(2) Concurrent hands-on breakout sessions where participants experience
and examine presenter materials and then discuss personal and human
concerns
(3) Reassembly to report on and integrate breakout experiences.
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We will address answers to:
(1) why to use technology
(2) what technology to use
(3) when to use technology
(4) how to keep technology use human.
Deborah J. Armstrong, University of Arkansas
Joseph E. Champoux, University of New Mexico
Randall B. Dunham, University of Wisconsin
Robert D. Marx, University of Massachusetts
Randall G. Sleeth, Virginia Commonwealth University
Joan L. Weiner, Drexel University.
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Randall G. Sleeth, Ph.D.
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
901 West Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23284-4000
804-828-1540
rsleeth@vcu.edu
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rsleeth