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Saturday 10th March 2012

• Supersizing the Classroom: 3000 Students & Beyond

  by John Boyer and Katie Pritchard

  A standard, supposedly self-evident fact: small class size is pedagogically superior for all student learning. Poppycock! This presentation will outline our successful strategies for expanding the conventional college classroom to 3000 students...and beyond. Combining a dynamic speaker with innovative technologies, social networking tools, and non-conventional sources of knowledge can produce an environment which fosters student engagement, content retention, deep comprehension, and lifelong curiosity...even in ultra-large classes. Integrating video podcasts, graphic novels, film, Facebook, Twitter, Poll Everywhere, and Ustream into course structure can increase choices and flexibility in student-centered activities/assignments, and facilitate increased teacher-student and student-to-student interaction. This course model challenges conventional class-size wisdom, conquers the confines of physical classrooms, and defies the old-school, teacher-centered pedagogy of centuries past.

  • Education
  • Educational Technology
  • Teaching

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Classroom 203, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck

Tuesday 13th March 2012

• How Simulations Can Change the Future of Learning

  by Bjorn Billhardt

  Humans learn by doing. We master how to ride a bike not by watching a PowerPoint presentation but by trying it out and falling down. Yet, in school, most of our time is spent listening and memorizing facts. But the world is changing. As computer games become more social and computers become more prevalent in the classroom, the opportunity for true interactive multi-player learning through games and simulations is finally becoming tangible.

  This interactive presentation will focus on how simulations can change the way we learn. Using examples from corporate training and the K-12 space, it will explore how simulations can teach children and adults in ways that increase engagement and retention of knowledge.

  The presentation will include examples of both successful and unsuccessful simulations and chart a path of how simulations can revolutionize education by allowing learners – both young and old – to internalize knowledge through the process of learn-by-doing.

  • Education
  • Simulation

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Classroom 203, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage slide deck audio clip