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Educating TheEducating TheBarney Generation’s Barney Generation’s
GrandchildrenGrandchildren
Elliot SolowayUniversity of Michigan
The Solid, Stable Middle of America
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ACM 97ACM 97THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF
COMPUTING
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THE NEXT 50 YEARS OF COMPUTINGTHE NEXT 50 YEARS OF COMPUTING
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Master of CeremoniesMaster of Ceremonies
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What is an educated person?– .... we need to change our pedagogy
What are the roles of technology?– ...technology is absolutely critical to
realizing this new pedagogy
How transition to that future?– ...technology can play a catalytic role
Today’s Story
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What Is Educated Individual?
Industrial, Product Economy– Classroom reflects a factory– Breed for punctuality, orderliness,
respect for authority– Teach to pass a test
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Or, To Put It In The Vernacular
“When I think back to all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all”– Paul Simon, Kodachrome Camera
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Need NEW Type of Workers
Knowlege-work, Process Economy– Teach for understanding & to take action
Kids should be able to... (Gov. Engler, MI, Republican)– Solve hard problems, without being led by
the nose– Learn new things on their own– Communicate with their co-workers
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A Old Pedagogy To Meet The New Needs John Dewey&
Your Mother– Don’t just sit
there; do something!!
– Think about what you just did!!
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A Old Pedagogy To Meet The New Needs John Dewey&
Your Mother Sustained Inquiry
– What is the quality of the water in my local river?
– Where does my school waste energy?
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Student Inquiry Looks Like What Adults Do
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Enabling Inquiry: Technology’s Roles
Address fundamental problems Four elements
– School, Community, Learning, Teaching
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Enable healthy, caring teacher -
student relationships Enabling technology:
– Not applicable!
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Enable student- student
relationship Enabling technology:
– Not applicable!
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Enable student-teacher & student-
student relationships Enabling technology:
– Not applicable!– SURE tech is applicable; but please
be careful!!
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Support learning in context
Enabling technology:– Truly personal computers,
collaboration technologies
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Star Trek’s Star Trek’s Tricorder Tricorder Lives!Lives!
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It Really Does Take It Really Does Take A Whole Village A Whole Village To Raise A ChildTo Raise A Child
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Develop literacy
Enabling technology:– Computational media
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"For the next generation or two one must expect literacy to include some letteracy, since our culture's past is so connected with expression through writing. ...it will not follow that learning the letters should be the cornerstone of elementary education."– Seymour Papert, Wired, 1993– "Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 R's/Literacy
and Letteracy in the Media Ages"
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School, Community, Learning, Teaching
Fundamental problem:– Deal with complexity
Enabling technology:– Learner-centered design of
software
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Summary: Probems & Enabling Technologies
FundamentalProblems
Enabling Technology
School Student-TeacherDiversity
N/A
N/ACommunity Learning in
contextPersonal computersCollaboration tech
Learning LiteracyComplexity
Computational mediaLearner-centered
designTeaching Prof. Develop Collaboration tech
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But.......
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Technology Has Had ZERO Impact On Education, So Far
“I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”– Thomas Edison, 1922
Wrong!!
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What Wil Be Different?
Availability:– Consumer prices – A laptop in every lap
Functionality:– Previously: support telling– Now: support doing
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Parable of the Trojan Horse
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Trojan Mouse.....
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Public Education --Democray’s Premier Institution
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