Teaching Naked Techniques - Annotated by José Antonio Bowen & C Edward Watson (Paperback)

About the Book

-Technology provides new ways for students to receive first contact with material, enhanced opportunities to connect and create community, better ways to ensure that students are prepared for class, and new options for the sequence of learning encounters and activities. -Teaching Naked- is really about rethinking the how, where, when, and what of technology. JosE Bowen's Teaching Naked Cycle provides higher education professionals with a practical, student-centered way to increase opportunities for interactivity. Teaching Naked Techniques helps higher education faculty create more effective and engaging lessons--or groups of lessons--on a wide range of topics. Based on Bowen's Teaching Naked Cycle, the book focuses on each step of class preparation from the student's perspective. There is a chapter on each step in the cycle with an abundance of discipline-specific examples (10-20 for each concept) plus additional resources. The book helps faculty take the first step in adopting this new pedagogy; by the final chapter, readers will learn how to implement larger (e.g. entire course) redesign projects. As the -Techniques- title implies, faculty can turn to this book to find multiple ideas at different points throughout the semester---

Book Synopsis

Put Teaching Naked to work in your classroom with clear examples and step-by-step guidance

Teaching Naked Techniques (TNT) is a practical guide of proven quick ideas for improving classes and essential information for designing anything from one lesson or a group of lessons to an entire course. TNT is both a design guide and a 'sourcebook' of ideas: a great companion to the award-winning Teaching Naked book.

Teaching Naked Techniques helps higher education faculty design more effective and engaging classrooms. The book focuses on each step of class preparation from the entry point and first encounter with content to the classroom 'surprise.' There is a chapter on each step in the cycle with an abundance of discipline-specific examples, plus the latest research on cognition and technology, quick lists of ideas, and additional resources.

By rethinking the how, when, and why of technology, faculty are able to create exponentially more opportunities for practical student engagement. Student-centered, activity-driven, and proven again and again, these techniques can revolutionize your classroom.

• Create more effective, engaging lessons for higher education
• Utilize technology outside of the classroom to better engage during class time
• Examine discipline-specific examples of Teaching Naked Techniques
• Prepare for each class step by step from the student's perspective

Teaching Naked flips the classroom by placing the student's first contact with the material outside of class. This places the burden of learning on the learner, ensures student preparation, and frees up class time for active engagement with the material for more effective learning and retention. Teaching Naked Techniques is the practical guide for bringing better learning to your classroom.

From the Back Cover

PUT THE LESSONS FROM TEACHING NAKED TO WORK IN YOUR CLASSROOM WITH A STEP-BY-STEP FIELD GUIDE

"Modeling creative educational practice on every page, Bowen and Watson have given higher education faculty and leaders a spectacularly useful guide to student learning in the age of digital innovation and learning research. The authors show readers, step-by-step, how to help novice college students become engaged, motivated, integrative, adaptive and even voracious learners."
--Carol Geary Schneider, Fellow, Lumina Foundation and president emerita, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

"Teaching Naked Techniques masterfully integrates pedagogy and technology. Saving you days of research, what could be more helpful than the step-by-step application guide, examples, key concepts/summary, and annotated resources that each chapter provides?"
--Linda B. Nilson, director emeritus, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, and author, Teaching at Its Best, Fourth Edition

"In Teaching Naked Techniques you have as rich a resource as has been written in a generation for assisting higher education teachers in how to improve their course design and how to improve students' learning. Whether you are just beginning your teaching career or are a thirty-year veteran you owe it to your students to read this remarkable book."
--Terry Doyle, author of Learner Centered Teaching, co-author of The New Science of Learning, and professor emeritus, Ferris State University

"Every teacher would profit from reading this book. I highly recommend it."
--Henry L. Roediger, III, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

"Teaching Naked Techniques offers provocative new ideas about effective teaching for today's students, and a wealth of teaching tips from instructors in a wide range of disciplines. It is an excellent blend of theory, practical techniques, and resources for teaching faculty."
--James M. Lang, professor of English and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption College, and author, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

About the Author

JOSÉ ANTONIO BOWEN is president of Goucher College. He has taught or been an administrator at Stanford University, the University of Southampton (England), Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University, and Miami University. Bowen is a pioneer in active learning and the use of technology in education, including podcasts and online games. His book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2013) is winner of the 2014 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. Bowen has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR. He received a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990. Bowen is also an international jazz performer and an award-winning composer.

C. EDWARD WATSON is director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Fellow in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is the founding Executive Editor of the International Journal of ePortfolio, the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and has published on teaching and learning in a number of journals. He is on the boards of two professional organizations in higher education (AAEEBL & ISETL) and was recently quoted in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Campus Technology, EdSurge, and University Business Magazine regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.