Introducing CILT Roy Pea SRI International Nora Sabelli National Science Foundation

Introducing CILT

Roy Pea SRI International

Nora SabelliNational Science

Foundation

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In Memorial...

Jan Hawkins, Chair of CILT’s Advisory Board

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Overview

• Putting to work our collective intelligence about learning technologies R&D

• Our approach:

“Uniting people, technology, and powerful ideas for learning”

• Thanks for support of CILT to the National Science Foundation

• Thanks to INTEL as CILT’s first Senior Industry Alliance Partner

• Thanks to our many CILT99 sponsors

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The Situation

• Revolutionary potentials of Learning Technologies

• Decades of strong academic R&D….

• Little influence on school practices, industry

• Many researchers: different strengths

• Many educators: insights from experience

• Many in industry who’d like to work to improve learning and teaching

• We have a need to support young scholars

• By bringing our collective intelligence together, we may augment what we can achieve

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• A distributed center for tackling these problems in new ways

• Start-up funding from the National Science Foundation

• Open structure for harvesting knowledge and leveraging diverse efforts

• Working on “theme teams” of high-priority

• Creating CILT as a distributed learning organization devoted to improving learning technologies

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CILT Leadership Council

Roy Pea (SRI), Marcia Linn (UC Berkeley), John Bransford (Vanderbilt), Barbara Means (SRI), Bob Tinker (Concord Consortium)

Concord Consortium

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Mission

To serve as a national resource for stimulating research on innovative, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 learning in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.

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The I4C of CILT

• InnovateInnovate– In the technologies we adapt or invent

– In the pedagogies we develop

– In how we work together within and across sectors

• IncubateIncubate– New research partnerships by seed funding

– New interdisciplinary research professionals

• InvestigateInvestigate– Processes/outcomes of using innovative learning

technologies in diverse educational settings

– Design models for effective learning environments

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The I4C of CILT (continued)

• Integrate– Compelling but isolated technologies and

pedagogies into comprehensive solutions

– Design and knowledge building practices from diverse communities about how to make learning technologies effective

• Communicate – cutting edge ideas by inviting collaboration to

build a sustainable community of learning

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We seek multiple types of innovation

• Fusion of technological opportunity, developments in the sciences of learning

• Creativity from community-based synergies

• Refinement of LT projects by “critical friends”

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WHO is CILT?

• The CILT community is a multidisciplinary collective of innovators joining forces to advance the science and practice of learning technologies

• In short, CILT is You!

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CILT Themes

• Four cross-institutional theme teams and cross-team synergy efforts– Visualization and Modeling

– Ubiquitous Computing

– Community Tools

– Assessments for Learning

• Each team is led by 2-3 senior researchers– hosts and supports a post-doctoral scholar

– works with a broader network of participants who collaborate through workshops and projects to set agendas and advance new research

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CILT99 Process

• Plenary sessions to set context and connect themes

• 5-minute talks to acquaint people (demos; posters)

• Participants together set priorities for new partnership team projects, begin defining projects and roles

• CILT later “seed funds” promising partnership pilot projects

• CILT projects may lead to new grants from NSF or other agencies, and/or be co-funded by industry, or re-direct ongoing grants

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