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VEX Robotics http://bit.ly/1bgLitI

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My brief commentary on the links between technology and teaching/learning

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In 1994, Robert Kozma took up the theme explored by Clark and Salomon in the 80s - does the choice or use of media affect how we learn? He says " The medium itself is only an inert conveyer of an active stimulus to which the learner makes a behavioral response ".

What we have learned about technologies is that they can help learners with varying degrees of attention deficit, dyslexia, audio or visual impairment to properly access materials that may have been useless to them in the form of a paper book (to use the example of one of our simplest technologies). But educators know that technology used without forethought is no better than a poorly chosen textbook or article.

So, back to humans - if we don't construct learning properly (and here I include carefully structured linear courses, short training interventions, MOOCs or doctoral seminars), if we don't have objectives or outcomes in mind or haven't considered our audience, if the learning activity (which may be as simple as reading) is not linked to the content in some way, learning won't be a successful.

I'm reminded of the study called the Dr. Fox lecture, conducted in 1973. It makes fascinating reading and it tells us something about the use of technology, although he didn't use any. It's how information is presented that can appeal or promote boredom.

New communication technologies are, for me, what has changed the relationship of humans to information and knowledge. Correspondence courses meant isolated students who required patience to see the results of their submitted work. Email changed that somewhat but conferencing tools, first developed in the 80s, allowed students to talk to each other as well as to the teacher. Retention in distance courses that used one of the technologies increased.

The discussion boards in EDMOOC demonstrate the effectiveness of this simple technology clearly. The postings are high quality, the topics are motivating, one can almost hear a quiet chatter in the background while reading the messages! That's humans using technology to do what we do well, communicate, exchange, learn from each other. How we do it is a function of distance, creativity, and resources.

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Using technology in education: will we learn better?

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In 1994, Robert Kozma took up the theme explored by Clark and Salomon in the 80s - does the choice or use of media affect how we learn? He says" The medium itself is only an inert conveyer of an active stimulus to which the learner makes a behavioral response".

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School children sitting at their desks, holding cards with the letters of the alphabet on them.
HAPMG : 2006.21.4 - licenced under Creative Commons

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Paul Hamilton asks questions

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Peer learning - or how a MOOC could work

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Peer learning - or how a MOOC could work

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Donald Taylor's overview of how teaching and learning could look. The link to MOOCs? We can learn from each other - it's as valuable as instructor-led learning (or more?): little or no tech needed!

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Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment

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Learning Technologies 2012: peer to peer learning

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Donald Taylor talks through the concepts of peer learning. Taylor led a session on peer to peer learning at Learning technologies 2012. More on http://www.personneltoday.com/LT2012

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How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology - Turner

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How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology - Turner

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Fascinating overview of viewpoints on cyberculture: check p 7.

"On one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand information wants to be free" (p.9)

...online forums could not also serve as sites at which to bring together representatives of multiple communities and develop ideological resources that could in turn be exported to the public at large...

http://stanford.io/1aNRRjU

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Metaphors about digital culture - WIRED 

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Metaphors about digital culture - WIRED 

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http://bit.ly/137JpeB - using an insect (or nature) metaphor could also allude to the potential invasiveness of technology in our lives!

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We are still very worried about how technology will change us as humans. Fundamentally, humans don't change(much); we love new things and we adapt so quickly.

I thought Facebook was dumb - but I love being able to catch up without necessarily having to make a big deal of it. The human side of me!!