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Eastern Michigan University: High-Tech Gear Integrates Diverse Format Presentations
5/30/2003
For example, the 1990s was known as the decade of the brain, in terms of research. This research has had particular significance in terms of "new knowledge" about gender differences, as well as the entire realm of addiction.
Because of the time demands on schedules of university professors, if new information d'es not make it into the lecture prior to the beginning of the semester, the professor can be left with a verbal reference to the change at best. The Sony system allows for that change to be made to the lecture as quickly as the research is available, which enables us to better meet student needs. Additions and deletions can also immediately be adjusted to lectures as students provide input.
Smart Classrooms
Health Education in the Elementary Grades is a class required of all future
elementary teachers. Our focus centers on the Coordinated School Health Program,
Comprehensive School Health Education and the six risk behaviors identified
by the Centers for Disease Control.
Early in the class schedule, the students are introduced to the multidimensional nature of health and charged with creating ideas for the different dimensions of wellness in their future classrooms.
As a part of this assignment, the students complete a self-assessment on their general level of wellness. The Sony system allows me to immediately leave the lecture on Wellness and take the students to each of the six Web sites that are possible for the completion of their self-assessment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produces a CD which has all of the statistics for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. This survey provides the data for the identified six risk behaviors of today's youth. When covering these risk behaviors, the Sony system facilitates the easy switch from the lecture to the CD, where the class can review both the national statistics and the statistics for the state of Michigan.
One valuable teaching resource for this class is the Nickelodeon Web site for teachers. They encourage teachers to tape any of their "Cable in the Classroom" series. Additionally, they offer a link for lesson plans that parallel each of the different segments in this series.
Two of the content areas covered in this class are First Aid and Loss and Grief for children. The Sony system allows me to readily switch from the lecture on these content areas, view the Nick New video and immediately link to the lesson plans offered at the Nickelodeon Web site.
My Drug Use and Abuse class is another example of how I use the Sony mixer in my lectures. The class serves as an elective for several other fields including law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and criminal justice.
I use the Moyer video series on Addiction. This provides the students a look at real addicts with real stories about their battle with addiction. The physiology lecture is greatly enhanced by switching to the video segment, "The Hijacked Brain." The lecture on drugs as a social problem is assisted by the video segment, "The Politics of Addiction." Further, I am able to leave the lecture on theories of addiction or families in addiction and take the students to actual treatment facilities in the video segment, "Changing Lives."
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