Pad-agogy: an exploration of the iPad for teaching and assessment in
higher education[1]
Description of the project
Although
the iPad is a relatively new product (2010) a literature review reveals that it
has already been the subject of a handful of studies investigating its use in
higher education as well as making several appearances on YouTube in 'apps'
presentations by excited American university professors. The journal reports
tend to emphasize the iPad in mobile learning, in a sense as an extension of
smart phone use, however one study (Manuguerra and Petocz 2011[2])
reports the use of the iPad in a lecture/seminar situation and as a tool for
assessment.
I have
tried the iPad on a few occasions in my level 5 (year 2) music analysis lectures in a
similar way to the use of an interactive whiteboard in a school classroom
setting. This proved to be potentially an extremely efficient tool for teaching
and students were engaged by the presentation. This project aims to achieve the
following:
1. To test
and evaluate applications for 'live' annotation of materials (pdf) during
lecture/seminars using a stylus on the touchscreen.
2. To test
the possibility of electronic marking using a stylus on the iPad touch screen
for both typed scripts and handwritten/notation portfolios scanned and uploaded
by students.
The
project aims to assess the viability of the iPad's touchscreen technology as an
effective and more intuitive or interactive mode of delivery, together with the
ability to save screen annotations in pdf format for Minerva upload plus sound/video
files etc., linked to the lecture/seminar.
The
project will make recommendations on software, teaching strategies and
applicability across other disciplines.
Activities
1. The use
of pdf annotating software to annotate scores and other materials on screen
using a stylus, writing music notation analysis 'live' projected via a data
projector; saving the annotated document as a pdf to upload to Minerva.
2. To
explore the effectiveness of manipulating multiple applications during
lectures: audio, video and annotated pdf.
3. To test
the effectiveness of marking students' handwritten music analysis projects
being scanned and uploaded for assessment with comments given by annotation
using a stylus. There is also the possibility to attach notes, images, sound
files etc.
4. To test
and evaluate iPad applications such as iAnnotate, 2Screens, Notability, Note
Taker HD etc.
[1] Apologies to Brand and Kinash for
borrowing their word 'Padagogy'. Brand,
J. & Kinash, S. (2010). Pad-agogy: A quasi-experimental and ethnographic
pilot test of the iPad in a blended mobile learningA environment. Paper
presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers
in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Sydney, Australia. <http://works.bepress.com/shelley_kinash/50/>
[2] Manuguerra,
M. Petrocz, P. (2011). Promoting Student Engagement by Integrating New
Technology into
Tertiary Education: The Role of the iPad. Asian Social Science 7, (11), 61-65.
<http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/12841>
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