In Memorial...

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In Memorial...
Jan Hawkins, Chair of CILTs Advisory Board
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Overview

• Putting to work our collective intelligence about
  learning technologies RD
• Our approach
• Uniting people, technology, and powerful ideas
  for learning
• Processes of knowledge networking
• What we are learning
• Thanks for support of CILT to the National
  Science Foundation under the Knowledge and
  Distributed Intelligence Program

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The Need

• Revolutionary potentials of Learning Technologies
  (LT) but...
• Two decades of strong academic RD on learning
  technologies --gt little influence on industry
  developments or school practices
• Uncoordinated critical mass of LT researchers
  with pockets of different strengths
• Educators using LT have insights from craft
  experience but difficult to share
• SUM little cumulativity, fragmented results,
  weak coupling of research and practice in a time
  of new complexities and rapid change of
  technologies

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Center for Innovative Learning Technologies

• A distributed center for tackling these problems
  in new ways
• Start-up funding from National Science Foundation
  (1.45 mil_at_year, 4 years)
• Open structure for harvesting knowledge and
  leveraging efforts of diverse LT RD efforts
• Working on theme teams of high-priority
• Weaving the webCreating virtual critical mass
  for a distributed learning organization about
  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)

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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

• Innovate
• in the technologies we adapt or invent
• in the pedagogies we develop
• in the ways in which we work together within and
  across sectors, including academic research,
  industry and educational practice
• Incubate
• new research partnerships that display fertile
  promise by seed funding
• new interdisciplinary research professionals in
  learning technologies
• Investigate
• the processes and outcomes of using innovative
  learning technologies in a testbed of educational
  settings and
• design models for establishing effective
  interactive learning environments
• Integrate
• compelling but isolated technologies and
  pedagogies into comprehensive standard-setting
  solutions
• design principles and knowledge building
  practices from diverse communities about how to
  make learning technologies effective
  researchers, practitioners, industry producers
• Communicate
• cutting edge ideas by inviting collaboration to
  build a vibrant, sustainable community of learning

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Overview of CILT Organization

• The CILT community is a multidisciplinary
  collective of innovators joining forces to
  advance the science and practice of learning
  technologies
• A core team of senior researchers from four
  diverse institutions
• Four "theme teams" that focus the efforts of the
  broad CILT community in areas of high promise
• Industry and school alliance programs to broaden
  impact of research on schools and other learning
  settings

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CILT Themes

• Four cross-institutional theme teams
  Visualization and Modeling, Ubiquitous Computing,
  Community Tools, and Assessments for Learning
• Each team is led by 2-3 senior researchers and...
• 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
• CILT theme team leaders...
• provide guidance and critical review for the
  teams work
• facilitate collaboration among members of the
  broad theme team community
• provide seed funding to initiate new partnerships

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CILTs First Year

• 1998 1000 invitees to our 4 workshops, 300
  persons came from 150 organizations and presented
  200 projects
• 5-minute fire-hose format to acquaint people
  (Have learned what? Need what?) demos posters
• Participants collectively set priorities for new
  partnership projects, and begin team formation,
  project definition and roles
• CILT later seed funds promising partnership
  pilot projects (20 so far)
• 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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CILT Synergy Projects

• Collaborative efforts intended to provide a model
  for sustained cross-institutional work
• Synergy projects build on creative work by
  individual groups to create robust examples of
  innovation that work in varied school settings
• Example Collaborative pocket inquiry
• Using hand-held computers
• For collecting and visualizing water quality data
  by several middle schools
• With embedded assessment activities and teacher
  support materials

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Visualization and Modeling

• Leaders
• Marcia Linn, Andrea diSessa (UC Berkeley)
• Nancy Songer (University of Michigan)
• Postdoc Eric Baumgartner
• Aim to support the design and use of innovative
  visualization and modeling tools in K-14
  education
• Seek understanding of the learning value of these
  different representational forms
• Wish to refine innovative instructional
  frameworks that help shape the context of tool
  use for learning

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Ubiquitous Computing

• Leaders
• Bob Tinker (Concord Consortium)
• Robert Brodersen (U. California, Berkeley, EECS)
• Postdoc Sherry Hsi
• Aim to stimulate collaborative research and
  development on engineering, learning, curriculum
  and educational issues for new configurations of
  small, portable computers, networking, and
  wireless connectivity

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Community Tools

• Leaders
• Jeremy Roschelle and Roy Pea (SRI)
• Postdoc Jim Gray
• Address tools and processes, both technical and
  social, that can support the networked
  collaboration of teachers, students, and other
  educational stakeholders
• Collaborative cognitive technologies
• Knowledge networking tools and activities
• Scaffolding frameworks that guide student
  thinking and learning activities

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Assessments for Learning

• Leaders
• John Bransford (Vanderbilt University)
• Barbara Means (SRI International)
• Postdoc Sean Brophy
• Focus on classroom assessment in the service of
  improving instruction
• Goal to explore synergies between new theories of
  learning and new assessment approaches made
  possible by technology

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Examples of Seed projects

• Virtual Reality Solar System
• Visualizing the Amazonian Rain Forest
• Elementary school computer modeling of growth and
  change
• State of the art on technology and assessment
  (NEA co-funded monograph)
• Assessment in the context of scientific inquiry
• Technology and assessment in bio-medical
  mechanical engineering
• Using Haptics to Learn Mathematics and Science

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Examples of seed projects

• Datagotchi Deep Dive Envisioning a Future
  Product Line of Low Cost Devices
• Dynamic Graphs and Motion using Palm-sized
  Computers
• Knowledge Mining on technology and education
  reform
• Consortium for Net-Based Teacher Professional
  Development
• Requirements of a Common Framework for K-12
  Collaborative Learning Community Tools
• Bootstrapping a LT knowledge network
• Interoperable Components for Shared Active
  Representations

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Concord Consortium Sonar Ranger
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Seeding the Knowledge Network

• Bootstrapping a web-accessible system for simple
  sharing of resources about the field
• People
• Papers
• Pedagogy
• Projects
• Personals
• Challenges of work practice change toward
  community-oriented knowledge sharing
• Make it simple Integration with workflow
• Goal A self-maintaining repository with good ROI
  for time spent contributing

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CILT Industry Alliance Program

• CILT is working with industry leaders to shape a
  vision of improving learning with technologies,
  and to provide a window for them into the broad
  learning technologies community
• Senior partners Intel Sun and IBM (final
  details)
• Collaborate in design and development of
  prototypes using industry tools and talent
• Contribute to technology transfer for CILT
  prototypes
• Enable schools to participate more fully in
  innovative research (infrastructure, teacher
  support)
• Amplify influence of CILT workbroad-scale
  dissemination and marketing help
• Help academic community better understand
  industry needs for collaborative research

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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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Criteria for CILT projects

• Idea potential
• Leverage funding
• Interdisciplinary collaboration and multiple
  institutions
• Rapid deliverydeveloping concepts, toolkits,
  environments others can use in under a year
• Prospects for successful integration into or
  impact on K-14 curricula
• Plan for testing, assessment

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CILT Knowledge Mining

• Eliciting information quickly from a pool of
  experts over the net and creating a concise
  summary for commentary and re-distribution
• Many incentives for participating
• Summarization is still hard but easier than
  working alone

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