Hey, Neil.  I'd like to quote a K-12 teacher who does a lot of technology development and training, Alice Keeler, who says, "the Internet has won."  I realized a while back that there's almost no way to effectively block students from using the internet so I've flipped the script and demanded that they use it.  One interesting thing was during the TRAT they're not supposed to use resources but I overheard  a student giving a definition of a term that she was clearly reading from a source.  Then I heard the team discuss it and guess what? They still got it wrong!!!!  Although they had the information they could not properly apply it.  I still ask them not to use resources and have them close their text or other windows when I see it but I don't stress about it. I don't even require the lockdown browser anymore and guess what; test score ranges have not changed.  I just assumed that some would leverage the technology to their favor and they may have but I haven't seen it on a large scale. In fact, in about a 3rd of the classes test averages have gone down.  I usually have one or two students get a perfect score on one or two IRATs.  The last two semesters, I've had none. I think designing questions that ask them to apply the concept is key.  

 

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:38 AM Neil Haave <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

My experience has been virtually identical to Herbert's. I have used Zoom breakout rooms to great effect for TBL team activities. It has made me rethink is the value of having all team activities graded and count toward students' final grades. I don't think that anymore as a result of the pandemic. Some, certainly, but not all. Trying to mitigate students' stress during the pandemic made me rethink this. That and the ability of students to look things up on the internet while in their breakout rooms really forced me to rethink this. 

 

It is still a work in progress but I think the pandemic allowed me to think how to implement TBL more effectively. How those changes will manifest themselves in a fully F2F classroom is something that I am still thinking through but I think it will be better than pre-pandemic.

Neil Haave, PhD (He/Him/His)
Professor, Biology, Augustana Faculty, Camrose, AB

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The University of Alberta is located in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) on Treaty 6 territory, the territory of the Papaschase, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.

 

 

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:36 PM Herbert Coleman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

During the pandemic, teaching remotely, my TBL tended to flourish.  The breakout rooms in Zoom allowed teams to work in isolation but also allowed me to pop in and out (like my usual walking around the room) and often they forgot or didn't realize I was there.  I did have to create my own app for the TRAT but it's been great and I continue to use it even in my F2F classes. It did challenge me to think about how we do each of the parts of TBL and explore better ways.

 

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:54 PM Gillette, Meghan T [HD FS] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi All,

For those of you at institutions that have faculty or instructor learning communities for those who use TBL in their classes, have you found that participation has increased or waned during/since the pandemic? Have you seen any fluctuation in engagement in these learning communities in any capacity since the pandemic, or even prior to the pandemic?  Similarly, has anyone published about this recently?

 

Thank you for any insight,

Meghan Gillette, MA, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor, Human Development and Family Studies

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Iowa State University

 

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