Welcome to iThinking!
iThinking will increase the interactivity, collaboration, and active learning in the Information Technology and Informatics degree program. Faculty will re-design courses to allow for in-class learning activities where students can collaborate together rather than work by themselves away from instructional support.
Tablet computers will offer an egalitarian learning experience in the project courses, and instead of using laptops in class as distractions the technology offers the opportunity to be truly integrated in the learning activities. Learning activities that focus on creating and evaluating information, generating and capturing designs and analyzing and re-working them, and collaborating to experiment with digital objects will be made possible by offering a more active, mobile and ubiquitous computer environment in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.
Quick Facts
- Keywords: active learning, student collaboration, information technology, informatics, human computer interaction, user interface design, information retrieval & evaluation.
The iThinking - Mobile Tablet Computers for Active Learning Project is funded by the 2008 HP Technology for Teaching grant.