Equipping Today’s Instructors for Tomorrow’s Students

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Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0.1: A Checklist for Instructor TrainersDennis C. Frezzo, PhD dfrezzo@cisco.comSenior Manager, Learning and Collaboration EngineeringOn behalf of the Simulation, Assessment, Game Engineering TeamJuly 2013

CCNA R&S T3 Webinar

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A Checklist for Instructor Trainers: Are You …. 1 Installing PT 6.0.1 for CCNA R&S?2 Viewing Simulation Mode?3 Using PTSAs? 4 Building Models?5 Telling Stories? 6 Playing Games? 7 Writing Activities?8 Collaborating?

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1 Are You Installing PT 6.0.1 for CCNA R&S?

Benefits: bug fixes, avoiding misconceptions, better interactions with assessment and gaming systems

New features for you and your classes to build better models. Oh, and see “Help”!

PT 6.0.1 is REQUIRED to use many curriculum practice activities, but also quizzes, Chapter exams, Practice and Actual Final Exams, and of course PTSAs

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Enhancements: IOS 15 Routers; IPv6 Features; HSRP;

Host Based Firewalls

Server with 2 NICs

HSRP

Octal Cable

HWIC-8A

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2 Are You Viewing Simulation Mode?

• Scientific Visualization is a crucial part of most STEM disciplines

• Consider PT Simulation mode a single-step, entire-network, packet sniffer

• Research shows the power of animations, packet tracing, and student “what if” questions

• Check out the protocol list! Device tables! Packet contents! Scenario features! QoS!

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3 Are You Using PTSAs?

• Research indicates the utility of performance-based assessments

• PTSAs can improve the validity, fairness, and security of an your exam portfolio

• Automatically graded work product, process logs, and extensive feedback

• Isomorphic tasks (“task families”) allow for better security and/or multiple retakes for mastery

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Skills Assessment – PTSA

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4 Are You Building Models?

• Research shows the power of learners building their own network models

• This process may be described as constructivist; as an “inquiry” process; as “what ifs” with “aha” moments

• Scaffolding can be heavy (lots of guidance) or minimal (more problem-based), individual or in teams, in-person or via social networking, compare/contrasting PT & real

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5 Are You Telling Stories?

• Learning research emphasizes the importance of context, especially for motivation and transfer of learning to work contexts. Consider .pkz (like zip, with gfx)

• Curriculum .pka files are often (not always) written with a minimal amount of context to avoid cognitive overload (distraction)

• Stories provide context; but many times the best stories are localized to the learners

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Thanks to Bob Schoenerr, World Skills

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6 Are You Playing Games?

• Research indicates that games have great educational potential

• Many types of NetAcad resources can be turned into games by social means

• We have two computer-based games, Packet Tracer Multiuser (PTMU) and Aspire

• Educational games that are both fun and teach useful networking skills are challenging for Cisco to develop; help us.

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PTMU: LAN Multiuser Agent

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7 Are You Writing Activities?

• First, you need not, since there are:•dozens of new PT 6.0.1 activities, •hundreds of PT 5.3.x activities•activities you personally have written

• But maybe you want to modify them? Maybe you want to translate or localize?

• Maybe you alone, or you and your peers, want to write your own, from “scratch”?

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Toolbox of Options: Richer, more frequent feedback

Task Types Formative Assessments Summative Assessments

Understanding Performance Understanding Performance

Student Initiated Quizzes Packet Tracer Labs

Testlets Packet Tracer Simulations

Interactive Media (e.g., Drag-and-drop, Syntax Checker, etc.)

Learning Checkpoints

Learning Checkpoints Packet Tracer Media Objects

Packet Tracer Media Objects

Packet Tracer Simulations

Instructor Initiated Course Chapter Exams Hands-on Labs Course Mid-term Checkpoint Packet Tracer Skills Assessments

Pre-Tests Packet Tracer Multiuser Game Skills Check

Course Final Hands-on-Equipment Skills Assessments

Practice Finals Packet Tracer Skills Assessments

To triangulate what students know, a student, their instructor, and NetAcad can draw upon this

Assessment toolkit.

Moving toward ubiquitous formative

assessment.

Shifting from knowledge feedback to feedback about

skills and abilities.

NOTE: Bolded items are moddable

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Variable Manager• Variables are associated with pools of

multiple values.

• Pools can be associated with seeds to determine which set to use from the pool.

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Isomorphs

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PT Assessment – Add Your Own• Create your own

• PT has hundreds of gradable components

• Add to your course

• Please see also sessions entitled “Packet Tracer 6.0 and Beyond!”, and “Shake up and Shape Up PT Activities with Variable Manager and IsoMorph”

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8 Are You Collaborating?

• You are part of a complex activity system

• If your preferred mode of collaboration is international, check out the PT community

• If your preferred mode of collaboration is more local, work with Sew Hoon, Kevin, Karen, and Giuseppe and your peers

• There is immense power and openness in the Packet Tracer Ecosystem. Be patient with Activity Wizard, Scoring Model and Scripting, as we prioritize student-facing features, not AW UX

• WE. ARE. PARTNERS.

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Resources on NetSpace

Wildcard: virtual PT activity scripting conference?

• Link to Packet Tracer Discussion Forum

• FAQs and Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Errata List

• Supplementary activities for curricula

• At A Glance

• Overview Presentation

• Instructor training materials

• Link to Instructor Guides

• Packet Tracer resource page

• Look for Upcoming PT 6.1 Beta (TBA)

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Equipping Today’s Instructorsfor Tomorrow’s Students

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Cisco Packet Tracer 6.0 and Beyond!Addressing the Digital DivideDennis C. Frezzo, PhDSenior Manager, Learning and Collaboration EngineeringOn behalf of the Simulation, Assessment, Game Engineering Team

Academy Conference 2013

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Assessing Student Learning in 2013: Surfing the Digital Ocean

How do we know what our students know?

Dennis C. Frezzo, PhD Senior Manager, Simulation, Assessment, and Game Engineering (SAGE)

Telethia WillisSAGE Program and Project Manager, Assessment

Cisco

Academy Conference 2013

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Cisco Packet Tracer MultiuserWhat it does and how to make it work

Brad AndersonProduct and Program Manager – Packet Tracer

Bob Schoenherr Global Competition LeadNetAcad

Academy Conference 2013

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Shake up and Shape Up PT 6.0 Activities withVariable Manager and IsoMorphSteve Stiles Paul BurkholderInstructor InstructorRhodes State College Rhodes State College

Academy Conference 2013

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