Engaging Students with Technology: So Easy a Lawyer Can Do It! ~ Brian Levey & Chris Clark Kaneb Center Workshop November 2, 2017 1 Background ¢ Corporate lawyer turned college professor ¢ Hired to teach sophomore-level “B Law” ¢ Realized quickly: ¢ Parts of B Law are exciting! ¢ Other parts aren’t ¢ Statute of Frauds 3 Another Problem: Socratic Method Speak louder, Mr. Hart! Fill the room with your intelligence! John Houseman as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. in The Paper Chase (1973) 4 Another Problem: Socratic Method Anyone? Anyone? Ben Stein as the Economics Teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) 6 Background ¢ What to do? ¢ Read how-to manuals ¢ Thought back to classes I had enjoyed -- favorite teachers and professors ¢ Sought advice of most everyone I encountered ¢ Listened to my wife! ¢ Went to Kaneb Center workshops 8 Background ¢ Reminded of what I already knew ¢ Teaching begins with enthusiasm ¢ Requires stimulating student interest ¢ We want our senses stimulated, the more the better, with vision trumping the others ¢ Concrete, emotional stories ¢ Active learning is better than passive 9 Engaging Students with Technology Film Clips Polling PowerPoint Engagement? 10 Questions? 11 Benefits of PowerPoint ¢ Use it to outline class ¢ Integrate: material ¢ Text ¢ My outline becomes the students’ outline ¢ Pictures ¢ Questions / Polls ¢ Stay on script ¢ Clips ¢ On time ¢ Sounds ¢ Across multiple sections 13 Challenges of PowerPoint ¢ Too many slides ¢ Too many words ¢ I need an intervention 14 Questions? 15 Slicker than Clickers: Poll Everywhere— A Web and Text-Messaging Student Response System ~ The Technology of Teaching: Matching the Media to the Message ALSB 2011 Annual Conference Agenda: Polling ¢ Pedagogical goals ¢ Attendee take-aways ¢ Resource name and location ¢ Register w/ Poll Everywhere ¢ Create a poll in Poll ¢ Cost Everywhere ¢ Estimate for faculty ¢ Begin thinking about how to use Poll Everywhere ¢ Estimate for students ¢ How I use it in class ¢ Research supporting its use Pedagogical Goals: Polling ¢ What pedagogical goals is this resource designed to accomplish? ¢ Increase student engagement ¢ Improve critical thinking skills ¢ Increase substantive or content knowledge ¢ Improve ability to provide feedback to students Resource name and location ¢ Poll Everywhere ¢ Web and text-messaging student response system ¢ https://www.polleverywhere.com/how-it-works Cost estimate for faculty ¢ On the one-hand . ¢ It’s free! (If you want/need 40 responses or less per poll, e.g., 40 students or less per class) ¢ On the other hand . ¢ There’s tiered pricing depending on number of responses per poll (e.g., students in your class) ¢ And number of users (e.g., faculty who want to use the service) https://www.polleverywhere.com/plans/higher-ed Cost estimate for students ¢ On the one-hand . ¢ It’s free! ¢ Assuming students have: ¢ Unlimited or generous texting plans ¢ Or access to ND Wi-Fi ¢ On the other hand . ¢ It’s the price of a text message x ? questions per class x ? classes Attendee take-aways ¢ Register w/ Poll Everywhere ¢ https://www.polleverywhere.com/signup/ 28 Attendee take-aways ¢ Create a poll in Poll Everywhere ¢ http://www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls/new Attendee take-aways ¢ Begin thinking about how to use Poll Everywhere ¢ How I use it in class ¢ Reinforcing the reading with a question students probably will get right ¢ Getting students’ attention with a question they’ll probably get wrong ¢ Addressing potentially sensitive issues through anonymous participation Question students probably will get right Original, Inc., sells its product under the name "Phido." Quik Corporation begins to market a similar product under the name "Fido." This is most likely ____ a. a theft of trade secrets. ____ b. copyright infringement. ____ c. patent infringement. ____ d. trademark infringement. You can download a slide from the Poll Everywhere website, but I have encountered compatibility issues And so I just click on a link to the site 35 Question students probably will get right Original, Inc., sells its product under the name "Phido." Quik Corporation begins to market a similar product under the name "Fido." This is most likely ____ a. a theft of trade secrets. ____ b. copyright infringement. ____ c. patent infringement. ____ d. trademark infringement. Question students probably will get wrong Mary offers to pay Mike $50 if he runs naked from the Main Building at the University of Notre Dame to LeMans Hall at St. Mary’s College. Mike can accept the offer only by completing the contract performance. If Mike does run naked from the Main Building to LeMans Hall, he and Mary will most likely have formed ____ a. a bilateral contract. ____ b. a unilateral contract. ____ c. a quasi contract. ____ d. no contract. 37 Addressing potentially sensitive issues 44 Addressing potentially sensitive issues 45 Addressing potentially sensitive issues Have you ever downloaded copyrighted music from the Internet and not paid for it, or copied it from a friend who has downloaded it? ____ Yes ____ No 46 Addressing potentially sensitive issues 48 Addressing potentially sensitive issues ¢ Students have responded in a variety of ways: ¢ I’m stickin’ it to the man ¢ It’s only one song ¢ Everyone does it; we grew up in culture where it is considered ok ¢ It’s already been paid for ¢ It’s not tangible (there is no incremental cost or loss) ¢ I wouldn’t buy it; I only copy it because it’s free and so there is no lost sale to the artist, the record company ¢ I won’t get caught Research supporting its use ¢ In-Class Polling: Less Teaching, More Learning?, Teaching with Technology Volume 2: The Stories Continue, Learning Technology Consortium, March 16, 2011 ¢ http://ltcessays.wordpress.com/category/ essays/ Research supporting its use ¢ 95% of the 173 responding students either strongly (138) or somewhat (27) agreed with the following statement: “I like using texting in this class to answer questions” ¢ 93% either strongly (88) or somewhat (73) agreed with the following statement: “Using texting in this class helps me learn” ¢ 98% either strongly (147) or somewhat (23) agreed with the following statement: “Using texting makes the class more engaging” Research supporting its use ¢ Comments include: ¢ It makes everyone participate so that ¢ I did not have to buy a . clicker from class is more engaging and the Bookstore - or remember to bring everyone is responsive. it. My phone is free and I always remember it. ¢ It is easy and simple, and it really gauges how well I’ve mastered the ¢ You don’t have to be embarrassed material. to answer a question wrong. ¢ Gives an idea of what test questions ¢ Mixes it up. Keeps the class moving. will be like. Highlights important key concepts. ¢ It’s fun. ¢ Able to see where I stand in the class. ¢ AWESOME Research supporting its use ¢ Incorporates research on effectiveness ¢ Contains examples of questions and teaching activities ¢ http://kaneb.nd.edu/assets/2557 31/iclicker_taxonomy.pdf 55 Conclusion: Polling ¢ Posing a limited number of questions to a class using Poll Everywhere is: ¢ Engaging ¢ Cost-effective ¢ Fun ¢ So easy, a lawyer can do it! Questions? 57 Using Film Clips in the Classroom: Something Old, Something New? ~ Brian R. Levey, University of Notre Dame 15th Annual Midwest SoTL Conference, April 11, 2014 59 Agenda: Film Clips ¢ Film Clips & B Law: ¢ Results Something Old ¢ Conclusion ¢ Film Clips & B Law: Something New? ¢ Theme Days ¢ Review 61 Something Old ¢ Hardly first professor to use films clips ¢ Simple Internet search reveals use of films clips across disciplines as diverse as: ¢ Architectural history ¢ Foreign language ¢ Mathematics ¢ Psychology 62 Something Old ¢ Fairly standard approach ¢ Develop point ¢ Show clip illustrating point ¢ Review point 63 Something Old ¢ Variations include: ¢ questioning students before and/or after clip ¢ E.g., using clip as a hypothetical and asking them to apply law ¢ Sometimes they work alone towards answer ¢ Sometimes they work with others (e.g., think, pair, share) 64 Something New? Theme Days . ¢ If one or two questions about a clip are good, wouldn’t a whole class be better? ¢ A class dedicated to: ¢ The movie (or TV show) ¢ The character ¢ Or the actor ¢ And his/her other movies, tabloid lifestyle, etc. ¢ And so Theme Days were born . 66 Something New? Theme Days . ¢ Before class: ¢ Scrolling PowerPoint with trivia, photos, etc., relating to theme ¢ Accompanied by related music ¢ Beginning of class: key clip ¢ Throughout class: related questions, trivia, tabloid news stories, etc. ¢ Anything to break up what is mostly lecture 67 Something New? Theme Days . ¢ Examples: ¢Denzel Washington Day ¢ 2 clips from Philadelphia to illustrate employment discrimination ¢ Including scene with Tom Hanks in law library where Denzel Washington has a change of heart and takes the case 68 Philadelphia (1993) 69 ¢ In this scene: ¢ We find personal injury lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) in the same law library as Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) ¢ Miller has previously turned down Beckett’s discrimination case (based on AIDS) against Beckett’s former employer 69 Philadelphia 5:40 70 Discrimination This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics. 71 Something New? Theme Days . ¢ Others include: ¢ Breaking Bad Day: using the misadventures of Walter White – the chemistry teacher turned drug lord – to illustrate criminal law ¢ Entourage