Impact on Teaching
- Examples of how HP mobile technology changed instructional practices
- Handwritten electronic feedback using digital ink contributed to a paperless class and enabled the instructor's feedback to be precise, detailed and quick
- Use of polling software (Classroom Presenter) enabled instructors to provide students with quick, informative feedback and enabled instructors to assess learning and make adjustments accordingly
- Use of mobile computing enabled instructors to walk around the classroom and station themselves in different locations thereby engaging students in the back of the classroom too
- Use of mobile technology facilitated the learning team approach for class activities
- Use of tablet PCs supported a paperless peer review process. Students would open their Word document, trade tablets with a peer, mark up the document with hand written notes, and save the marked version for the originator to review. In the end, a student had their original and one or more commented copies. Given class time, students can begin to make revisions when ideas are still fresh
- What we were able to accomplish in teaching that would have been difficult without the mobile technology
- Well designed, organized, and managed learning teams lead to successful team work experiences for both students and the instructor
- Engage students in lectures using Classroom Presenter to assess student learning and identify difficulties where more explanation or detail is needed
- Use of anonymous polling software engaged shy students who are generally reluctant to participate in discussions, but didn't mind submitting their ideas anonymously
- Use of mobile technology and Classroom Presenter enabled students to see their own mistakes anonymously and be guided down the correct pathway. They were also able to see they were not the only one who did not understand the material. This prompted students to ask more questions and shifted more responsibility for learning onto the student rather than onto the teacher
- Paperless peer review was a successful way to engage students in the revision process. Without computers in the classroom, students postpone revision to a time when the greatest influence to make revisions has passed