High Quality Learning: It’s all about Nature (technology) AND Nurture (pedagogy)
posted in distributed-learning, edtech |These are my notes from Curtis Bonk’s (Indiana University) keynote at SITE 2007. The handout for this session is available as a PDF. The pace of this preso was so fast there is a lot of content I could not capture. I did record this for a later podcast, which Dr Bonk said would be fine.
Signs of the times
- lots of YouTube videos being cited
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- fake professors editing WikiPedia
- real professors who put 5 errors into wikipedia that were corrected in 30 minutes
Yesterday at John Seely Brown’s address I was using WikiPedia to look up names he was mentioning
- it is a tool
Ball State #1 wireless campus last year, others were Indiana, Purdue, DePaul
- We’re inundated with these stats
- all these messages being sent to use, forward
- #1 “in thing” on college campuses is iPods, not beer
- #2 is beer, #3 is facebook, #4 drinking other alcohol, #5 is text messaging
How many of us are overwhelmed by tech?
Nature and Nurture: An Interactional model of technology, pedagogy, people/society/culture etc.
Poll #1: RAise your hands if you are a digital natives (grew up with a computer at home)
- walking around in a technology bubble
- San Francisco Chronicle May 14, 2006: “Young and Wired” by Katherine Seligman
- audio quote from “The Matrix” descibing it all around us
Lots of discussion over multitasking: people really doing more simultaneously, really learning more?
Email is old school for kids today
- picture of family in
Growth of Online Learning in Secondary Schools
- Free online course will aid Michigan students
- are requiring an online class in Michigan now
- are now teaching Mandarin Chinese in Michigan
- South Dakota: 1st case of students favoring online education over F2F
How will things change in 5 years
Florida virtual schools: 60,000 credit hours taught online, 30,000 students enrolled
REynolds and Greiner: 2006 - Enabling Blend National University Dept of Teacher Education
- their blend involves F2F during field experiences
- numbers of learners have not gone up by huge numbers
- at National Univ they have shifted where the learning is taking place: from 3% online to 43% online
60,000 students in Open University in Thailand
- huge increases in Malasia
Trend #1: Blogging (75,000 new people each day)
- less than 1% of those are educational blogs
- that is still a lot of educational blogs
- not just in the USA
- China will soon surpass the USA in # of bloggers (Sept 26, 2006 article by Canadien Press)
Blogging Questions
- Who has a blog? Any for a specific class?
- Who regularly reads other people’s blogs?
- Who assigns blogging tasks?
- Who has created a video blog?
- Who thinks blogging is a total waste of time?
People here in Texas blogging
- some being anonymous
- people concerned about teachers blogging
- Adventure blogs: theoceans.com, adventure blogging (Ben Saunders, Mark Fennell)
- people blogging before they go underwater at the north pole
Many uses of blogs
1- instructor or tutor blog
2- learner blog
3- partner blog
4- class blog
more
(clip “I’ve got a brain” from Wizard of Oz)
Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth
Story from December of
Papert loved to ask students what gets them excited about technology: exploring, sharing with my friends, trying things out
Trend #2: Wikis
WikiPedia not only has current info, but also LINKED information
- WikiQuotes, WikiBooks, KidPedia coming soon, lots of projects from the Wiki Foundation
Jimmy Wales dropped out of my university to create WikiPedia
Wiki Questions
1- Who regularly reads wikipedia articles just for fun?
2- more
How to use wikis in teaching
1- provide space for free writing
2- more
Trend #3: Podcasting, Webcasting and Coursecasting
www.dailysourcecode.com
Can now listen to books
EdTechTalk example, Radio Willowweb, Podkids Australia
Podcast question
Kids doing podcasts in schools today
(Curtis has put on a pink wing and is holding an inflatible guitar)
KidZooks podcast
Education Podcast Network
Lanugage Learning: Chinesepod.com
- “great teachers in your podcast, excellent resources on the web”
- most of it is free, some are paid sections
- Dali Lama did a podcast
- Arabic being taught online
Educational Applications of podcasting (Essex 2006, Leftwich 2007)
- 9 different ideas
At IU we have an instructional consulting office, we’ve had 27 episodes on how to use podcasts instructionally “Teach with Tech by Chris Essex”
Stanford on iTunes
Trend #4: $100 Laptop
- yesterday we heard a speaker from the $100
Trend #5: Virtual Worlds / Virtual Reality
- Dell in SL, IBM having annoucements there
- making money
- K12 students in SL: “Student Exchange, Without the Jet Lag” article in Edutopia
Trend #6: Skype and Google Talk: Online Phone Calls
Trend #7: Digital Books
- in Korea they have digital books coming out which include multimedia elements, virtual worlds
- already have PMPs (personal multimedia players) in Korea
- Realebooks
- textbookrevolution.org
- Physics content free in South African website
Trend #8: OpenSource Tools
- Moodle
- Sakai
- Drupal
Trend #9: Simulations (SimTeacher)
Trend #10: OpenCourseware
- 1st MIT
- 2nd: Univ of Vietnam
- many others are putting free content up online: Tufts, NotreDame (ethics courses)
Lucifer Chew who
- OOPS! Opensource Opencourse…
In the past open courseware would be called pirating
- Curtis has now put on a pirate hat and is holding a pirate sword
OER Commons: Will index all open courseware projects around teh world
GELC is now Curriki
- free content, learning portal, Scott McNealy and others are putting up
Trend #11: Portals and Free and Open Resources
- Stallerium project (free planetarium)
- US gov’t, NASA resources
- Google
- Writer’s window: people add to your story, share your writing
Trend #12: Social Networking Software
- myspace
13: Youtube
14: flickr
15: google maps for mashups in K-12 education
Let’s talk about pedagogy now for the last 10 minutes
3 frameworks to walk away with
1- Learner-Centered Learning Principles from APA in 1993
- Anchored instruction (show a video clip, have discussion wrapped around it
- AlwaysOn: The Insider’s Network
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2- Cool resource provider
- have students find cool resources and showcase/share them
3- ORL or Library Day
- have students spend a day in the library or online finding and summarizing a set of number of articles
- have them bring to class or post abstracts to an online forum
- share in small groups
- reflections
I don’t read all the reflections, they have a critical friend who reads the reflection and gives them feedback
4- Online warm-ups Activities
Just in time teaching
(JiTT)
TEC-VARIETY framework
1- Tone/Climate
2- Encouragement, feedback
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5- Autonomy, choice
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10- Yields Products
99 seconds: What have you learned so far
4MAT System Model changed R2D2 Model
1- Read
2- Reflect
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(Curtis is now wearing a jedi robe and holding a light saber)
Art and history exhibits
I’m giving up trying to write down more ideas, see the handout.
Last model: The MATRIX
(Curtis is now dressed as NEO)
Think about the pedagogy that is wrapped around it, are you being learner centered?
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