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Presentation for Educause Midwest Regional Conference 2010, Chicago, Illinois
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Sean CordesAssistant ProfessorWestern Illinois University
Multimodal Fluency: From the Classroom to the Cloud
The State of Things
“It is radical conditions which have changed,” he wrote, “and only a radical change in education suffices… Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied.”
Dewey, J. (1980). The School and Society. Carbondale, IL: Southern
Illinois University Press.
The Classroom
Only with a clear sense of the theoretical foundations that underpin assumptions about learning and cognition, can an efficient online learning environment be appropriately designed.
Failure to address questions regarding learning theories, pedagogical approaches and explicit learning outcomes, results in the Everest Syndrome - using technology just because it is there (Nunes & McPherson, p. 8).
The Cloud
"Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)" - clients buy resources as a fully outsourced servers, software, data center space or network equipment.
"Platform as a Service (PaaS)" - facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers.
“Software as a service (SaaS)” a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand. vendors host the application on their own web servers or upload the application to the consumer device, disabling it after use or after the on-demand contract expires.
Cloud Computing-Larry Ellisonhttp://bit.ly/13T3OZ
Learning and the Modern Learner
Information will be pervasive Informational computing will be an
extension of the self Those with access and ability to
information and technologies will have the edge over those who do not
Educators will be on the trailing edge in some cases, the leading edge in others.
Learning and the Modern Learner
The Partnership for 21st Century Skillshttp://www.21stcenturyskills.org
Standards & Assessments
Curriculum & Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
Life & Career Skills
Learning & Innovation Skills
Core Subjects & 21C Themes
Information, Media, &Technology Skills
The Scope
Students understand the nature and scope of information problems
The question The information needed Where to look How to look How to present it
The Means
Students use efficient means to get the information needed to solve problems.
Databases Internet Community
Evaluating information
Type Quality Quantity Availability Suitability
Ethical Use
Piracy Plagiarism Cyber Bullying
Skill Sets for Survival
Information Literacy Skills Management Skills Digital Literacy Skills Inter-Personal Skills
What Gains?
What gives?
Brace Yourself Learning curve for students and instructors
Look for balance between the learning experience and experience needed
Can be costlyInvestigate free and low cost options
Potential issues with compatibility and accessibilityTest the tools on a variety of platforms browsers and environments, contact vendors and site owners
Can require outside supportWork with your computing “experts” – in house & online
Operates in an open ended and somewhat ambiguous arenaTry things out yourself first, provide alternates options, get to know student skill level, have a back up plan
Engage and Advance
Do you need it?-Avoid Tech for Tech sake, match tools to tasks
Try It-Be prepared to do the assignment yourself, see what the experience is, and what can happen
Topics-Give them choices, let them choose
Provide context-Show how the tool can help with your class, other classes, work & life
Explain the essence- Nothing usually goes as planned, be prepared for set backs, plan ahead
Modern Literacies
Visual literacy is the ability to analyze, create, and use, images and video using technology and media to enable critical thinking
Multicultural literacy is the ability to acknowledge, compare, contrast, and appreciate commonalities and differences in culture
Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes
Digital Literacy is the ability to apply technology to access and use resources in multiple modes and forms.
Information now?
Information-Maya Designhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WytNkw1xOIc&feature=player_embedded#
Web 2 “0 My”
Visual Literacy-The Frightening
Visual Literacy-To the Familiar
Visual Literacy-The Normal
Visual Literacy-To the Novel
http://www.psykopaint.com/
Media Literacy- Animoto Videos
http://animoto.com/education http://bit.ly/bF6crv
http://bit.ly/8Yc8C5
Media Literacy-Myxer.com
http://www.myxer.com/
Upload image and music files to create wallpapers
and ringtones for your phone. It's Easy!
Have students upload music files to create ringtones for
their phones and teach them about fair use and audio
media. It's Easy!
Multi-Cultural Literacy-The Whole is Greater than the Sum
Establishing personal relationships paves the way for more cooperative negotiation dynamics. Parties develop a sense that the other group's beliefs and values are similar to their own, and more likely to frame issues as mutual problems, refrain from personal attacks and build on the other side's ideas.
Multiculturalism in Context
Face Transformer http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//Transformer/ Face Photos http://wiu.edu/users/csc115/faces/
1. Go to Face Transformer2. Download photos from directory3. Upload photo and process the transformation
Teaching Strategies
IBL Teaching Strategies
Inquiry-based learning-Learning should be based around student's questions. Requires students to work together to solve problems rather than receiving direct instructions
The teacher's job in an inquiry learning environment is to help students along the process of discovering knowledge themselves.
IBM’s Many Eyeshttp://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.
IBL-Many Eyes
IBL-MindMeister
As a group create a mind map on the topic of Instructional Resources
Group leader(s) sets up account on www.mindemeister.com
Members contribute ideas for group branches on collaborative map
Group leader(s) inputs content to map.
GoogleAppshttp://blog.mindmeister.com/2010/03/10/mindmeister-now-available-at-the-new-google-apps-marketplace/
IBL-Mind Maps
http://www.mindmeister.com/
What We Learn
Turn information into useful knowledge.
Stresses skill development and nurtures the development of good habits of mind.
Provides useful context, and application for information
Develops connections between activities within a particular subject.
Teaching Strategies
Problem-based learning-is a student-centered instructional strategy in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences. Characteristics of PBL are:
Learning is driven by challenging, open-ended problems.
Students work in small collaborative groups.
Teachers take on the role as "facilitators" of learning.
Problem Based Learning Example
Use the tools to transfer content and combine it into a single object
Flickr Photo Site
Animoto Video Site
WordPress Class Blog Site
To create meaningful information objects by combining media types including language and objects
To understand the process of trial, error, and consequence relating to technology use
To understand the relationship of rules, tools, labor, and community relating to information systems
What we learn
Teaching Strategies
Contstructivism assumes that learners construct their own knowledge on the basis of interaction with their environment.
Knowledge is physically constructed by learners who are involved in active learning
Knowledge is symbolically constructed by learners who are making their own representations of action
Knowledge is socially constructed by learners who convey their meaning making to others;
Knowledge is theoretically constructed by learners who try to explain things they don't completely understand
Example-Google Sitehttp://sites.google.com/site/lib201site/
Constructivist Learning Example
Web Site
Develop a research question and develop a presentation web site using multiple content types and tools.
http://sites.google.com/site/lib201site/
What we learn
To see information parts as a whole To analyze media for messages To relate the experience of others to
ourselves To understand how information
transforms us, and how we transform information
Assesment
Outcome Based Assessment
Skills Based Real Life Context Access and Use Cognitive Skills Digital Skills Management Communication
Google Forms
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences.
People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen.
The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/