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Teaching in Small Bytes

Teaching in Small Bytes. Directed Texting in Mathematics & ESL Classes. nathan kohn enzyme@bu.edu 617 596 3626 text me 7x24. part-time student at METCS. High school and/or undergraduate years distant Difficult course ( MET CS 546 Quantitative Methods ) Adjunct faculty

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Teaching in Small Bytes

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  1. Teaching in Small Bytes Directed Texting in Mathematics & ESL Classes nathan kohn enzyme@bu.edu 617 596 3626 text me 7x24 Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  2. part-time student at METCS • High school and/or undergraduate years distant • Difficult course (MET CS 546 Quantitative Methods) • Adjunct faculty • Weekly weekday evening 3 hour class • Not on campus outside of class hours • Full-time jobs & family commitments command & consume their most productive hours • Office hours, just preceding a three hour class, are too late for a student struggling with concepts from a lecture a week past. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  3. Directed Texting • Teaching tool inexpensive convenient effective in class outside of class • SMS technology available on all cell phones. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  4. distance learner • Challenge is ever greater. • Online courses • Blended courses • Conjoined course (Blended + F2F) • Blackboard + Adobe Connect 360 + Tablet • A variety of tools do exist • additional expense and technical support • lack sufficient commonality • not well suited for a quantum of learning. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

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  6. Directed Texting International students • Keeping both the question and the expected answer very short reduces stress for students who are not comfortable speaking or writing in English. • While not primarily intended for in classroom use, Directed Texting can play well there as well. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  7. Int’l StudentJournalism (Korea) Form + Function + Meaning + Pragmatics Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  8. irregular plurals, irregular verbs, word order, vocabulary, agreement, syllabification, silent letters, determiners, ... Int’l StudentJournalism (Korea) Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  9. Directed Texting a fine-grained tool • pearls of pedagogical wisdom < 140 characters • composed in advance • simultaneous mass transmittal • can reach students regardless of location • reaches students within seconds • within moments an instructor may • assess retained learning • identify conceptual stragglers • make adjustments to the next in-class lecture. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  10. Int’lSTEM Student • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia • Arabic speaker • Engineering Major © Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  11. level of students • student skills and aptitude are distributed in a surprisingly diverse number of ways. • math classes for non-math majors: bimodal distribution, with int’ls: tri-modal! • material must be brisk and accessible. ⅔ = singular cardinal followed by a plural ordinal ? ! three ten-millionths in.= ? vertex → vertices square < cube parabola = quadratic Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  12. educational objectives and benefits • Student engagement • Reinforcement for weekly only classes • Ensures students have the gist of a lecture. • Students & faculty have SMS text devices. • No new costs are incurred • Dense material can be probed subtly • Q&A are terse • Archive searchable/sortable Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  13. other instructors / other courses • Teaching by Directed Texting transfers easily to many subject areas besides Mathematics or English as a Second Language. Even full-time faculty teaching full-time undergraduate students may find it useful. Depending on the teaching point a teacher could certainly tell students that only incorrect answers will be acknowledged, or perhaps that only correct ones will be, or that the first correct answer gets a ‘gold star’. Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

  14. btw tx ttyl nathan kohn enzyme@bu.edu 617 596 3626 text me7x24 © Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching Fifth Annual Instructional Innovation Conf

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