{"id":56397,"date":"2016-08-08T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56397"},"modified":"2016-08-08T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:08:30","slug":"using-educational-technology-to-enhance-student-learning-siderwicz-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/08\/08\/using-educational-technology-to-enhance-student-learning-siderwicz-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Using educational technology to enhance student learning [Siderwicz &#038; Shah]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/using-educational-technology-enhance-student-learning-0805\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Using educational technology to enhance student learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from news.mit.edu by Marilyn Siderwicz and Dipa Shah<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSome MIT professors are moving content to the MITx platform so they can flip the classroom \u2014 asking students to review material prior to class and then using in-class time for practice,\u201d said Shah. \u201cThis allows students to assess where they are, engage with their peers, and engage with the faculty.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nShe also spoke about the types of instructional practices that help students learn, again stressing a combination of approaches. For example, using quizzes to promote knowledge retrieval, spacing practice of a given concept over time, asking students deep explanatory questions, combining graphics with verbal descriptions, and connecting abstract and concrete representations of concepts have all proved effective and complementary.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t just lecture at a blackboard and expect the students to remember, understand, and appreciate the wealth of knowledge, beauty, and complexities we uncovered during our fieldwork\u201d&#8230;\u201cI need to document the things we saw using video, annotations, and interactive software, including making 3-D reconstructed models. I want to remind the students where they stood, how structures were designed and fit into their surroundings, and what contributed to their resiliency over centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using educational technology to enhance student learning &#8212; from news.mit.edu by Marilyn Siderwicz and Dipa Shah Excerpts: \u201cSome MIT professors are moving content to the MITx platform so they can flip the classroom \u2014 asking students to review material prior to class and then using in-class time for practice,\u201d said Shah. \u201cThis allows students to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,115,302,210,141,71,463,3,173,66,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-faculty-staff","category-flipping-inverted-learning","category-higher-education","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56399,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions\/56399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}