1. What is Academic Development
– with a touch of tech
Presented by Anne Olsen
Academic Development Professional
Centre for Teaching Learning & Media
NMMU
Anne-Mart.Olsen2@nmmu.ac.za
@weirdsister_ann
http://education.wm.edu/centers/ttac/images/articleimages/graduateschoolwork

2. What is academic development?
A field within teaching and learning in higher
education (Rowland, 2001).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42741665@N08/8174941335

3. What is academic development?
A Definition
… academic development is taken to mean
practices designed to enhance the performance of
an institution of higher education…
(Candy 1996: 17)
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Whose
responsibility
is it?

4. How is academic development supported
@ NMMU?
Centre for teaching, learning @ Media
(CTLM)
http://www.rheinzink.co.za/uploads/pics/19042013_nmmu-37_01.jpg

5. CTLM?
http://www.nmmu.ac.za/www/media/Store/images/About%20NMMU/Photos,%20videos%20and%20publications/Photos/North%20Campus/M
ulti-Media-Teaching.jpg
http://ctlm.nmmu.ac.za/

6. Teaching
academic
development
Student
academic
development
https://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/janus_1.jpg

7. The purpose of
academic development
STUDENT SUCCESS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16556549@N00/4716218374
Co-
responsibility
Student success website:
http://tal.nmmu.ac.za/

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157623426
A new approach to teaching & learning
@weirdsister_ann

9. https://welearnindia.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/digitaleslernen_evolution.jpg
The history of technology in
education

10. From: Digital Learning Design by Anne Whaits
Available athttp://www.slideshare.net/awhaits/digital-learning-design-14444623

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/serenaconnelly/4578557276/in/faves-11607028@N08/
Our students are no longer little versions
of us…
We need to look beyond or 20th century
knowledge or training to guide them…

12. When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems…
while being continually assessed … and often working
collaboratively.
~ Graham Brown-Martin

13. http://www.shiftisgood.com/harrison-kohn-relaunches-as-shift

14. We are family http://pro.corbis.com
From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

15. Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

16. http://chriswondra.com/2007/12/17/paradigm-shift-ahead-learning-just-got-heroic/
… using technologies that have not been
invented yet in order to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet
- Shift happens 2012
This is especially true
for education.
Once upon a time the
book revolutionised
education… now?

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mister-mac/7309103230/sizes/k/in/faves-11607028@N08/
Todays' students are no longer the people our
education system was designed to teach

18. http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/
We learn by teaching
From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

19. We shouldn't
expect
"out of the box"
thinking
when we only
employ
"in the box"
teaching. Tom Whitby
From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill Academy
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548
http://www.flickr.com/photos/louish/5625592927/

20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7815007@N07/6875671556/

21. From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill Academy
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548
New
tools of
the trade

22. http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/pictures/2014/MathScience.jpg
Don’t disregard chalk and talk.

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986
In a hunting culture, kids play with bows and arrows. In an
information society, they play with information.
~Henry Jenkins
A magazine is an i-pad that doesn’t work.

24. If the only tool
you have is a
hammer, you
tend to see
every problem
as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
From: Joquetta Johnson, Library Media Specialist Milford Mill Academy
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/accordin2jo/whats-in-your-technology-toolbox-5438548

25. http://www.schooltube.com/channel/edmodo/

26. http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/09/back-to-school-best-quotes-about-education-and-school-days/teaching-today-amazing-7-3/
BYOD – Bring your own device
Go mobile

27. Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without
the ability to txt, they cannot fully participate in their culture of
communication
~Peter Veomans

28. http://i.dailymail.co.uk
...they are distracting and
disruptive. The phone becomes
the focus of attention,
inappropriate images/videos can
be taken and sent, leading to
invasion of privacy and loss of
teacher control!
Mobile phones should be
banned because...
Objections from Educators
From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

29. BYOD - Personaltechnologies
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg
When we ban young people from using their mobile
devices, we prevent them from communicating and
learning in ways that are meaningful to them.
From: Learning in a digital Age: Myth and Reality by Steve Wheeler
Available at http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/learning-in-a-digital-age-myth-and-reality

30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/3340500017/

31. Cell phone Myths and Potentials
• Too solitary
• Irresponsible /
inappropriate use
• Theft
• Knowledge with the
teacher
• Loss of control
• Leverage device and
collaborative culture
• Teachers digital
citizenship
• Keep on person
• Willingness to learn
from the students
• Use to maintain control
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkmousie/4379574834/Tolll: www.slideshare.net/tolll/byod-14682745

32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogwrnsk/502008278..
In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the
Earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no
longer exists…. Eric Hoffer

33. http://proverbs226.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/question1.jpg