UW News
October 5, 2006
Program spotlights technology-enabled classrooms
Innovative Learning Spaces is the title of a program scheduled for 2:30 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in 310 HUB. The program focuses on technology-enabled classrooms and informal learning spaces that support active learning.
- Phil Long of MIT will showcase his TEAL classroom. — a teaching format that merges lectures, simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a collaborative learning experience.
- Richard Anderson of UW Computer Science & Engineering demonstrates Classroom Presenter, a tablet-based system in which the instructors and students share and mark up slides.
- Daryl Pedigo of UW Physics, shows how the use of a very simple device, the clicker, can promote anonymous and widespread participation in classroom discussion.
- Dan Gilbert of Stanford highlights the inventive, educational technology found in Stanford’s renowned Wallenberg Hall.
The program is part of the Catalyst Spark Session series, which offers fresh ideas, practical advice, and hands-on assistance to faculty and staff who are interested in using information technology for teaching and learning, research and digital scholarship, or distance education. For further information, go to http://catalyst.washington.edu/events/spark.html.
