ITU Business Administration, Academic TalkOutline Date: March 1, 2012 Topic: Classroom Interaction for Increased Student Learning

Purpose: Provide a forum for exchanging ideas and views about successful classroom techniques, with the goal to increase student interaction and enhance learning. Format: 1. Presentation of resources on interaction in classroom. --Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences --John Dewey, learning is social, transaction to convey knowledge --Universal Design for Learning (Recognition Networks, Strategic Networks and Affective Networks). --Flanders Interactive Analysis research 2. Professors share experiences of successful classroom interaction and related outcomes--discuss with entire group. 3. Summarize exchanged ideas and finish. 4. Ask for input on frequency of meeting (1x per month, 1x per semester?)

5. Ask for input on topics (rubrics, Turnitin software, assessment, tech.) 6. Close Resources Article: Miriam Schcolnik, Using Presentation Software to Enhance Language Learning. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Schcolnik-PresSoft.html Article: Marcia L. Tate, Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, February 2010). Article: Susan Engle, What is Good College Teaching? http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ff0914s.pdf Article: David Kolb, The Theory of Experiential Learning and ESL. http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-Experiential/ Article: M. Knowles, Andragogy. http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/andragogy.html Article: John Seely Brown and Richard Adler, Minds on Fire: Open Education, The Long Tail and Learning 2.0, 2008 -http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSERevie wMagazineVolume43/MindsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/16242 0 Books: John Dewey, The School and Society, 1907 and 1915 editions, John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1915

MCCASLIN, MARY, and GOOD, TOM. L. 1996. "The Informal Curriculum." In The Handbook of Educational Psychology, ed. David C. Berliner and Robert C. Calfee. New York: American Psychological Association/Macmillan. NEWMAN, RICHARD S., and SCHWAGER, MAHNA T. 1992. "Student Perceptions and Academic Help Seeking." In Student Perceptions in the Classroom, ed. Dale Schunk and Judith Meece. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. SULLIVAN, HENRY S. 1953. The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. New York: Norton. VYGOTSKY, LEV. 1978. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Internet Sites: Howard Gardner http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HGpubs.htm directed-method teaching: http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/Vockell/CAI/Cai3/cai3direc t.htm constructivist-method teaching: http://tiger.towson.edu/~jmello1/portfolio/theory.htm http://net.educause.edu http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2315/PeerRelations-Learning.html Universal Design Learning Concepts (http://www.udlcenter.org/)

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) 2011 report, pps 35-37 Flanders Interaction Analysis: http://anandkab.blogspot.com/2011/03/flanders-interactionanalysis.html