Learning Lunch Box presentation - 25 July 2014 Getting in amongst it - transformative technology to bring teaching to life

1. Getting in amongst it
Mobile tablet teaching to large audiences
Kris Ryan
Faculty of Engineering

2. Blended Learning:
A change in the educational landscape
Live sessions:
Challenge the academic
Challenge the students
Active Learning is key

3. A Simple Idea Transforms Engagement

4. Integration with Active Learning
 Move away from the lectern – get
closer to your students
 Scribe your notes – directly over
content / videos / 3rd party
software
 Interact with your students directly
when away from lectern
 Give your students the
tablet… …as part of active
learning
Windows machine? Get Screenmarker

5. Two Active Class Examples
Interact with your students directly
when away from lectern

6. Two Active Class Examples
 Give your students the
tablet… …as part of active
learning

7. Two Active Class Examples

8. Rules of Engagement
• Randomly choose students to work with
• Start by making the use of the system easy for the students
• Develop strategies to handle embarrassed students
• Allow students to help each other
• Be clear on the benefits for the teaching process

9. How do I do it?
 1x laptop & 1x tablet
 VNC (it’s free!)
 Works on windows and Mac OSX
 Install and setup on both machines
 Setup a local peer2peer network
 Start VNC and run
For a non-iPad tablet:

10. How do I do it?
 Start VNC and run – what does that mean?
 The tablet is a VNC server (run the server program)
 The laptop is a VNC viewer – you can use this to log in and
see the tablet screen.

11. How do I do it?
For an iPad:
Install reflector on your machine and follow the instructions

12. The latest and greatest

13. Breaking down the walls
Monash:
• Multi-national University
• Research intensive

14. Imagine

15. Imagine

16. Break down the wallsEngage with the world around us