Laptop Time!

Pedagogically-informed teaching with technology

• Smith College Teaching Arts Luncheon
• Presenters: Randi Garcia and Simon Halliday
• Carroll Room, 2018.01.26, Lunch

Resources

• The slides from our talk are available here
• We recommend getting to know PollEverywhere
• Randi uses Qualtrics in here classroom a lot, you can log in to Qualtrics at Smith (using your Smith sign-in) here: smithcollege.qualtrics.com
• Simon uses Google Forms and Google quizzes, which you can use through Google documents at docs.google.com/forms
• Simon (and many folks at Smith) like to use Piazza.com as a question forum to make the class more inclusive and asynchronously participatory
• Randi uses Slack with her classes for communication and collaboration. Simon uses Slack with his STRIDE students.

Reading up

• Learn more about ‘jigsaw teaching’ here: http://www.teachhub.com/jigsaw-method-teaching-strategy
• The NY Times piece we mentioned about knowledge of Korea is available here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/14/upshot/if-americans-can-find-north-korea-on-a-map-theyre-more-likely-to-prefer-diplomacy.html
• Simon recommends the book, Make it Stick by Brown et al, feel free to purchase it via Amazon here: http://amzn.to/2DDAxVX
• “Laptops & Phones: Yea, Nay or a Third Way?”, NPR.org accessible at https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/01/24/578437957/laptops-and-phones-in-the-classroom-yea-nay-or-a-third-way; accessed on 2018.01.26.