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Keynote Session
I'll be presenting a keynote session sometime during the conference (need to figure that out :))...in advance of the conference - any questions? Any concerns about how technology is impacting things (from whatever perspective you hold)? Feel free to attach comments...
Title: Connectivism: Content, Connections, Conversation Description: Content has, for much of the life of formal education, held the prestigious central position, reflected in bold statements like “content is king”. Over the last five years, the web has shifted from write to a read/write model, where end users contribute to the original voice. Feedback is constant, original content is fluid. YouTube, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social book marking, and other simple, social tools have changed how we relate to each other and to content. These changes in the online space are now being mirrored in our classrooms and courses. Learners perceive content as a conduit to conversation. Changing learner expectations require that educators rethink how learning is fostered – a shift from passive content consumption to active content co-creation. How do these changes impact educators? Institutions? The process of learning?
Title: Connectivism: Content, Connections, Conversation Description: Content has, for much of the life of formal education, held the prestigious central position, reflected in bold statements like “content is king”. Over the last five years, the web has shifted from write to a read/write model, where end users contribute to the original voice. Feedback is constant, original content is fluid. YouTube, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social book marking, and other simple, social tools have changed how we relate to each other and to content. These changes in the online space are now being mirrored in our classrooms and courses. Learners perceive content as a conduit to conversation. Changing learner expectations require that educators rethink how learning is fostered – a shift from passive content consumption to active content co-creation. How do these changes impact educators? Institutions? The process of learning?
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| Nick_Carbone | content will stay center until academic models change | 0 | Mar 5 2007, 10:32 AM EST by Nick_Carbone | ||
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Current curricula are built around content especially at the GER level-- English Lit is about reading from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf; intro psych, history, and so on all focus on relatively fixed content still. it's why those courses use textbooks.
advanced and graduate work is more fluid. When GER shifts to a more conversational and connected model, then you'll shift in role of content in those courses. But academic disciplines are inherently conservative and slow to change. |
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| Nick_Carbone | More Notes | 0 | Mar 5 2007, 10:10 AM EST by Nick_Carbone | ||
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Ideal is local design of tools to meet local change pressures, not something delivered from experts.
Content: Open Mashups Participatory Create, co-creaete, recreate. Yahoo Pipes lets users manipulate the content as much as they want to. Openness generates innovation. Educator concerns are for up to date materials. Number one concern is currency. Textbook older than five years old, book reseller don't want. Textbook currency is of critical concern. Current models assume content is stable. By time content in book gets to student, the content is out of date. TB's are out of date and obsolete in many fields. Meanwhile there is open source content under development. OCW - Utah financiing open source opencontent.org/blog/archives/311 Open publication: plosone.org Open Learn: www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php MIT: Open content ocw.mit.edu/index.html OCW opencontent finder as well. (GS will post slides). |
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| Nick_Carbone | Notes on the Keynote | 0 | Mar 5 2007, 10:04 AM EST by Nick_Carbone | ||
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We need to consider framework of knowledge and how it is disseminated.
Have room for optomism in our learning spaces. Educators are optomistic at level GS hasn't seen in five or six years. We have tools to make ideals come to life. Learners have role in process. Benkler quote: ""allows us to negotiate the terms of freedom,jusicte and productivity in a the information society." Not exclusively about technology has much more to do with societal changes and technology in enabler of those changes. Change wags the technology dog? Gates: "even when they're working exactly as designed -- cannot teach our" kids what they need to know. Diagram: Change pressures create new methods (enabled by technology). Wiki, for example is reaction to change pressures. Right now they enable to interact w/ knowledge. New methods create new structures/spaces (Wiki, Blogs, etc.) New methods create new affordances and that leads to new change pressures. Industries addressing change by shifting to new technologies and platforms. In five years maybe no longer a NY Times print edition for example. Businesses altering models but education hasn't made as much progress. Education is more holistic than other industries? Good experts leave you with more questions than answers. Context matters. |
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