New Technology

Spicing up an Old
Boring Course!
How The Apple Watch Can Make Oral Pathology More
Interactive
Jennifer Atkinson
CCHE688 MAP 3
5/28/15

Intended Audience
The intended audience for this course will be first
year dental students
The program already provides an apple laptop and
ipad to each new student (tied into tuition cost)
All students also have an iphone as a requirement for
Axium (a required software program used for patient
charts) that is only compatible with apple devices.
I would have the apple watch added to the provided
technology first year.

Millennials and Technology

Born into the world of technology
These students are comfortable multi-tasking with
several different technology platforms

The integration of technology in the classroom

is one of the most effective ways to improve
student interest and engagement
Millennials are very team oriented
Tying teamwork and technology together is a very
effective teaching practice
Gibson, L., & Sodeman, W. (2014). Millennials and Technology: Addressing the Communication Gap
in Education and Practice. Organization Development Journal, Winter, 63-75.
DeBard, R. (2004). Millennials Comming to College. New Directions For Student Services, (106),
33-45.

Oral Pathology
Arguably, the most boring class in the dental school curricula
Consists of hundreds of slides of histology and images of
lesions
The only person in the room that is excited about the
content is the instructor!
The content is critically important!
45,750 cases of oral/ pharyngeal cancer will be diagnosed this year in
the US.
Only 50% 5 year survival rate
8650 deaths per year (1 person per hour, 24 hrs a day)
This is just the cancer that can be detected, there are many other
diseases to be concerned with.
Oralcancerfoundation.org,. (2015). Oral Cancer Facts - The Oral Cancer Foundation. Retrieved 27 May 2015, from
http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/

How the Apple Watch Can

Help
Quizzes during lecture to give real-time results
that let the instructor know if the students are
understanding the material as they go
Student randomizer
Group selection
Interact with and control lecture material
Heart rate monitor can alert the instructor that
they need to liven things up!
Young, J. (2015). Wearable Teaching? College to Experiment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool. The
Chronicle Of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wearable-teaching-college-toexperiment-withapple-watch-as-learning-tool/56459?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Customized Learning and

Exams
With a large national question bank, create exams that really test the extent of
the students knowledge
Exam questions would change based on how student is doing
If a question is missed, the next question will be an easier question with the same type of
content
If a question is marked correctly, the next question will be slightly harder

Adaptive exams give students a more customized learning experience

Graded participation based on apple watch student randomizer
Graduate level and above prefer cold calling and equal participation if open discussions will be
significant portion of grade

Todd, L. (2015). Tough New Exams in State Test Students' Math, Reading Skills. Seattle Times. Retrieved from http://www.seattletimes.com/seattlenews/education/tough-new-exams-in-state-test-students-math-reading-skills/
Weimer, M.. (Undated). Faculty Focus Special Report: The Teaching Professor,. Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation (p. 9-10). Magna Publication.

New App for Oral Pathology

Diagnosis
The apple watch can be a great platform for
medical and dental apps
A future app can be one that helps practitioners
identify and diagnose oral pathology
Series of questions related to location, description, size,
texture etc. to give several differential diagnosis options
Scroll through images to assist in identification of lesions
that need to be biopsied

Malan, J. (2015). An Apple for the Teacher - Reinventing the Classroom with Apple Watch.
Linkedin. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-teacher-reinventingclassroom-watch-iq-business-south-africa

Apple Watch Assignment

Group project
Group selected with apple watch
Images disseminated to each group via the watch
Apple watch will be used to control and interact with
presentation material

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to:

Clinically identify lesions that will require biopsy

Based on histology be able to diagnose oral pathology
Be able to treatment plan appropriate treatment for the patient
Be able to produce a professional presentation and deliver that
presentation to peers, educating them on a specific disease and
available treatment modalities
Understand how to use technology to enhance diagnostic ability
Doubling time of information is growing too quickly to rely on books

Characteristics of Good Learning Outcomes. (2015). Retrieved 20 May 2015, from

https://bblearn.nau.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3343827-dt-content-rid-27679738_1/courses/1154-NAU00-CCHE-688SEC801-1701.NAU-PSSIS/Characteristics%20of%20Good%20Learning%20Outcomes%281%29.pdf
Densen, P. (2011). Challenges and Opportunities Facing Medical Education. Transactions Of The Americian Clinical And
Climatological Association, 122(2011), 48-58.

The Benefit of Technology

More engaged students
Student randomizer
Drawing students into the conversation
Participation and engagement of even shy students

Student-centered learning
Enforce that participation goes beyond attendance

Group selection
Team work
Allowing complex questions to be solved together

Less work for the instructor

Quizzes graded in real time
National question bank

More freedom in the classroom

Able to control presentation material from the watch
Knight, D. (Undated). Faculty Focus Special Report: The Teaching Professor,. Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy (p. 4).
Magna Publication.
Kohler-Evans, P., & Dowd Barnes, C. (2013). Relationships with Students are What Matter Most. The Teaching Professor, 27(7), 1&7.

References
Characteristics of Good Learning Outcomes. (2015). Retrieved 20 May 2015, from https://
bblearn.nau.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3343827-dt-content-rid-27679738_1/courses/1154-NAU00- CCHE-688SEC801-1701.NAU- PSSIS/Characteristics%20of%20Good%20Learning%20Outcomes%281%29.pdf
DeBard, R. (2004). Millennials Comming to College. New Directions For Student Services, (106), 33-45.
Densen, P. (2011). Challenges and Opportunities Facing Medical Education. Transactions Of The Americian
Clinical And
Climatological Association, 122(2011), 48-58.
Gibson, L., & Sodeman, W. (2014). Millennials and Technology: Addressing the Communication Gap in
Education and
Practice. Organization Development Journal, Winter, 63-75.
Kohler-Evans, P., & Dowd Barnes, C. (2013). Relationships with Students are What Matter Most. The
Teaching Professor, 27(7), 1&7.
Malan, J. (2015). An Apple for the Teacher - Rienventing the Classroom with Apple Watch. Linkedin.
Retrieved from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-teacher-reinventing-classroom-watch-iq-businesssouth-africa
Oralcancerfoundation.org,. (2015). Oral Cancer Facts - The Oral Cancer Foundation. Retrieved 27 May
2015, from http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/
Todd, L. (2015). Tough New Exams in State Test Students' Math, Reading Skills. Seattle Times. Retrieved
from http://
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/tough-new-exams-in-state-test-students-math-readingskills/
Weimer, M.. (Undated). Faculty Focus Special Report: The Teaching Professor,. Student Recommendations
for
Encouraging Participation (p. 9-10). Magna Publication.
Young, J. (2015). Wearable Teaching? College to Exteriment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool. The
Chronicle Of Higher Education.