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AcademiX 2009 - Evolving Teaching & Learning

Posted by Jeff VanDrimmelen at Jun 10, 2009 04:44 PM |

Recently Jeff VanDrimmelen and Zachary Fisher were able to attend AcademiX 2009, a "conference focused on spurring change in teaching and scholarship through emergent digital learning environments" put on by Apple and hosted by Duke. It was a great day full of thought provoking technology and teaching theory. This article has some highlights of the day.

AcademiX 2009 - Evolving Teaching & Learning

iPhone Development and Mobile Learning

There was an iPhone development workshop all day on Wednesday.  As you may, or may not know, OASIS is the host of an iPhone developer's group here on campus that meets weekly to discuss iPhone development.  You can find more information here. 

Julian Lombardi - Keynote

We are in the midst of a massive change - transformation in what we do.. 

Challenges
  • Millenials
  • Shifts in scholarship, research, creatinv expression and learning
  • Increasing expectations aroudn emerging technology services
  • Trending/changing infrastructure requirements
  • Role of Physical University
    • Displaying CoPresence
    • Distributed Technology (we all have Laptops)
  • Manage through transformative change
  • Deal with loss of "control"

Beyond Textbooks 
Matt Federoff, CIO Vail Schol District, Vail, AZ - First Textbook Free High School in US
  • It was REALLY about cost - $500 a/kid - How can we recapture that cost. 
VICCI - Lay out syllabus for whole year based on standards - Really a GREAT idea!
  • Different than the "read the chapter and answer the questions at the end."
Example of HS seniors reading US constitution and Confederate Constitution and comparing the two... because it is out there.  

It really is a great model that harnesses all of the AMAZING content out there!  NO need for textbooks any more!  The information we are teaching kids is online!!  And FREE!!  

Teachers have instructional blogs where they put their content!  That is a fantastic idea! 

Podcasting Panel

  • Overview of creating and distributing podcasts, both as part of the class curriculum and just capturing the classroom environment and disseminating that. 

Mobile Learning Panel

Evolving Teaching and Learning Beyond LMS 
  • http://wiscrowd.appspot.com/
  • Mammals are Merlot, Pearson Education, Open.michigan, connecions, mitopencourseware, mcgrawhill education, wikipedia.  
  • Dinosaurs are Blackboard, Moodle, Sakaii - where are we going from here?
  • imsglobal.org

Questions / Help / Etc.

If you have any questions about any of the above information or would like to talk with Zack or Jeff to discuss using any of these technologies in your classroom, here is their contact info:

Jeff VanDrimmelen - jeffvand@unc.edu
Zack Fisher - zfisher@email.unc.edu
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