CEP 901B Proseminar in Technology

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CEP 901B Proseminar in Technology Education

• Punya Mishra
• Matt Koehler
• January 14, 2003

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Today

• General Housekeeping
• Three monkeys take over
• Ed Tech the big picture
• Working on your bibliography
• The prelim structure
• Meeting with your parole officer

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Questions?

• Web presence?
• Final Projects?
• Parole officer assigned for administrative
  convenience focused mentoring
• MJK Chun, Khusro, Michael, Scott, Yun
• PM Aman, Amy, Danah, Eduardo, Shenglan

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Announcements

• Pot Luck LTC get together, Friday, Patrick
  Dicksons house
• Watch email for details / directions
• Talk by John Bransford this Friday, 800am (830)
  in 252 Erickson Hall

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Reminders

• First summary in your annotated bibliography due
  next week
• Two pages
• Format as suggested by prelim questions
  http//www.msu.edu/user/pdickson/cep901/prelimproc
  edures.htmCEPSE20Preliminary20Exam20Questions
• Three monkeys need to
• Sum up the online activity for the yahoogroup AND
• Create a web page for todays activity. Send it
  to Matt

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Reminders

• A web presence would be really good!
• Send me link to yours when you have one
• Which should be ASAP
• Readings are up for next week, MiAmE is in charge
  (instructions by Thursday please)
• Please post to the yahoogroup by the deadline (as
  decided by the group of the week)
• This means you (you know who you are)! No
  exceptions!

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Ready set go

• Three monkeys go!
• Go monkeys go!
• See monkeys go!
• Go go go!

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Timelines

• What kind of changes do your timelines show?
• Access to information (anytime, anyplace)
• Access to things that we could not do, can
  provide new experiences
• Multiple representations
• Visualizations
• Getting in touch with other people
• Technology can change the world - or our view of
  ourselves (sputnik, etc.)
• Adaptive learning - personalized and
  individualized

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Timelines and Reading

• Look at this

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Your take on the readings
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Status Quo

• When you look at that matrix, it may strike you
  as something that could have been done 20 years
  ago, regardless of technology.
• That is, the framework presented for technology
  is the mere application of ed. Psych to software.
• That is, theres nothing new here.

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Ed-Tech the Status Quo

• Comments, Criticisms, Questions?

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Hence

• There would be no need for an ed-tech prosem.
• Technology is just a special context for standard
  theory.

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An opposing view

• Technology does change things

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Like what?
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It is true

• That technology can let us do the same old thing
  but better. For example
• Behaviourism Software can provide immediate,
  consistent feedback
• Cognitivism Technology can provide multiple
  (linked) representations of knowledge
• Sociocultural Technology can connect people to
  other people, ideas, and authentic contexts.

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But there is more

• Technology changes the picture enough that it
  brings up its own issues that impact teaching
  and learning. Consider
• The CPT perspective presented last week.
• Online learning (communicating online,
  communities online, online personas, etc.)
• The possibility of linking representations (graph
  position over time to the motion of an object)
• Automated adaptive testing (GRE etc.) also,
  Automated Essay grading (Latent Semantic
  Analysis)
• Animated pedagogical agents (connected to AI
  engines)

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Another justification

• Vygotsky emphasizes the role of tools as
  mediators for thought
• So, if the tools change, they point to a change
  in the culture and to changes in thinking.
• In other words, for somebody with a hammer,
  everything is a nail -)
• EXAMPLE Technologies prefigure ways of thinking
  (Mishra, Spiro, Feltovich, 1996)

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The problem of design

• Design is underconstrained by theory
• I.e. A learning theory does not map into a piece
  of software in one, predetermined way
• We need to unpack the black box of design
• Design is the interplay of human intentions,
  biases, theories on technology and it is a messy
  process.

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Emergent phenomena

• Sputnik is not just the application of mechanical
  and physical principles but its impact on the
  world (and our world view) was immense
• Similarly, ed tech can be the application of ed
  psy but its impact can be much greater
• All our knowledge of internal combustion cannot
  predict a traffic jam

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Pause for reflection

• Coming up next, an overview of the big ideas in
  technology that highlight this profound change.
• A map of the course
• http//mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/MattWeb/Courses/CEP_9
  01B_SP03/topics.htm

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Working on your bibliography

• The prelim structure
• http//www.msu.edu/user/pdickson/cep901/prelimproc
  edures.htmCEPSE20Preliminary20Exam20Questions
• Searching for stuff to read, various strategies
• Important to identify the key readings in your
  area of interest
• Searching the library
• Searching the web
• To read critically with an eye towards developing
  a layout of the discipline
• Books, Journals, Key players/scholars

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Meeting with your parole officer

• MJK Chun, Khusro, Michael, Scott, Yun
• PM Aman, Amy, Danah, Eduardo, Shenglan
• To discuss your topic of interest and / or any
  other issues

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For next week

• Do what MiAmE wants you to do
• (and on time please)
• Create web presence, mail link to Matt
• First item in annotated bibliography should be
  ready
• 2 readings on Simulations (available on web site)
• MiAmE to meet with us to discuss online and f2f
  activity
• 3 monkeys to summarize activity (on yahoogroups
  AND web page)