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Christine Padberg

Wiki - Week 1 Resources | E-learning and Digital Cultures - 0 views

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  • Uses determination
    • Christine Padberg
      Christine Padberg on 29 Jan 13
       
      Should this be "user" determination?
  • Technological determination:
  • technology ‘produces new realities’, new ways of communicating, learning and living, and its effects can be unpredictable
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  • Social determination
  • technology is determined by the political and economic structures of society. Questions about ownership and control are key in this orientation
  • technology is shaped and takes meaning from how individuals and groups choose to use it
  • Which of these perspectives do you lean towards in your understanding of the relationship between technology and pedagogy? Can you point to instances in society or in your own context where this stance is necessary or useful?
  • Which of these perspectives do you lean towards in your understanding of the relationship between technology and pedagogy? Can you point to instances in society or in your own context where this stance is necessary or useful?
  • technology could solve the three most pressing problems of education: access, quality and cost
  • in all parts of the world evolving technology is the main force that is changing society
  • a model technological determinist position,
  • what observations can you make about his utopian arguments about education? What currency do they continue to have in this field?
  • the orientation here is clearly dystopic
  • ‘administrators and commercial partners’ as being in favour of ‘teacherless’ digital education,
  • ‘teachers and students’ as being against it
  • these divisions have never been clear, and they certainly aren’t now.
  • Why does Noble say that technology is a ‘vehicle’ and a ‘disguise’ for the commercialization of higher education? How can we relate this early concern with commercialism to current debates about MOOCs, for example? And how are concerns about ‘automation’ and ‘redundant faculty’ still being played out today?
  • the consequences of digital education
  • What kind of determinist position do they take? To what extent are they utopic or dystopic visions of the future? Why have the ideas they represent been so readily taken up and distributed within all educational sectors?
  • metaphor of the native and the immigrant
  • Prensky warns ‘immigrant’ teachers that they face irrelevance unless they figure out how to adapt their methods and approaches to new generations of learners.
  • how does the language he uses work to persuade the reader? Who are ‘we’ and who are ‘they’? What associations do you have with the idea of the ‘native’ and the ‘immigrant’, and how helpful are these in understanding teacher-student relationships?
  • What is being left out of the story of the internet here, and from what position is this story being constructed?
  • technological determinism,
  • Dahlberg, L (2004). Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 9/3
Chris Swift

Technology + Demand = Change - 5 views

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  • Chris Swift on 03 Feb 13
     
    So the practical message I draw from the theory of technological determinism is that to change your society - be it a classroom, an organisation, or even a country - there's no point implementing a technology just for the sake of it. You first need to know your audience and understand the demands they have that drive their behaviour. Only then will you know which technology to deploy, if any at all.
Chris Swift

Technology is the Answer: What was the Question? -: UNESCO Education - 0 views

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  • audiocassettes
    • Christine Padberg
      Christine Padberg on 29 Jan 13
       
      Sort of an outdated reference, isn't it?
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      I'd agree, but in some parts of the world, it is still a viable form of technology, compact and easy
  • four principles that you should apply to thought or action that involves information and communications technology
  • bias,
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  • vendor bias has now got a firm grip on much of the public discourse about information and communications technology
  • be sceptical about assertions of the value of technology coming either from those who want to sell it to you or from their surrogates in political life
  • the suppression of research reports or evaluative studies that undermine the thesis that technology improves everything.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Technology can make one feel very dissatisfied with life. When you know something better is out there, do you pine away for it feeling like it will make your life oh, so much easier?
  • bullshit
  • When we see a concept everywhere it is easy to suspend our critical faculties and assume it must be right
  • breadth
  • think broadly about technology in teaching and learning.
  • Technology always involves people and their social systems
  • Remember that there are many technologies: books, blackboard, film, radio, television, programmed learning and so on. The Internet has not made them obsolete
  • starts with teaching and attempts to use technology to expand the range and impact of the teacher
  • the remote classroom approach
  • the rest of the world had a different tradition
  • started on the other side of the coin, with learning, and used technology to create a good learning environment for the student wherever and whenever the student wanted to study.
  • We must strive for balance on a number of dimensions.
  • When we use technology are we using it to enhance learning or to enhance teaching?
  • Dimension number two means seeking balance in answer to the question: teaching and learning for what?
  • Open University students have an extensive range of online facilities available. Which ones do they use?
  • they like using the web for informational and administrative transactions.
  • communication between students
  • Online technologies can, of course, be useful for learning
  • two key virtues.
  • support active learning experiences
  • devising good active learning experiences is expensive because it requires lots of work by the teachers
  • notably by destroying old jobs and creating new ones.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Please tell me something new. This is an idea that has perpetuated itself for centuries!The cotton gin destroyed the need to hand pick and clean cotton, It created the opportunity for the enslaved to have yet, another job.
    • Maria Washington
      Maria Washington on 05 Feb 13
       
      I hope you are being "cheeky" when you so easily type the words: "enslaved," "job," and "opportunity" in the same sentence. This clip and the full documentary may shed some light on the topic: http://video.pbs.org/video/2192491729
  • The best way to reach learners is to use technology that the learner already has.
    • Laurie Niestrath
      Laurie Niestrath on 01 Feb 13
       
      Okay, I'd agree with this one. Start where you are and move on. Too many institutions moan over the lack of "technology." If you have a computer, you have so many social media resources at your disposal IF you know how to access, use and apply them!
  • technology more for activities associated with their studies
  • rather than for the mainline work of studying course content. T
  • Why should we want to use technology? How should we use technology for learning and teaching? What are the basic principles? Who can benefit most from educational technology? Where should we apply it? Which technologies are best? More generally, how do you make judgements about the many claims that are made for technology?
  • illiteracy
  • In both cases technology is changing society, notably by destroying old jobs and creating new ones.
  • vendor bias
    • César E. Concepción-Acevedo
      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 07 Feb 13
       
      The most effective softwares are the once licensed under Creative Commons and are open source. This gives great power and independence to institutions and individuals. It truly IS the way to avoid the pervasive pitfalls that software tycoons throw education in (costly updates, upgrade caps etc. ).
  • basic triangle
    • César E. Concepción-Acevedo
      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 07 Feb 13
       
      While reading the speech on Globalisation and Tech from #UNESCO head of #education. Produced this #artifact #edcmooc http://pk.gd/A6BI
  • Chris Swift on 16 Feb 13
     
    Globalisation, education & technology - what is fair, equal, just, right and wrong in the world?
Kelcy A

Future Identities - 4 views

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  • Chris Swift on 23 Jan 13
     
    Basically, what are the implications for government and policy makers as our digital lives & identities rapidly change and develop. How will it effect society as a whole? Economically, ethically, financially, legally and so on.
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