Conferencia en el 3er encuentro PEAFAL en Universidad Interamericana en Ponce. 10 de agosto de 2012.

1. <Enseñar, conectar y
aprender en red:
Superando los mitos de la enseñanza</>
<Antonio Vantaggiato</>
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
zenofteaching.us

2. Enseñar, conectar y
aprender en red:
Cómo superar los mitos de la enseñanza.
Implicaciones de la teoría conectivista en la práctica
docente / importancia de las redes y la creación de
conexiones en el proceso de aprendizaje.
"Mitos" que aún impiden el cambio a estas nuevas
prácticas. Para cambiar la manera en que "dictamos" y
"enseñamos" nuestros cursos y para que podamos lograr
un efectivo diálogo pedagógico, deberíamos superar esos
mitos y entender el papel revolucionario que puede tener
la tecnología al abrir nuestros cursos al mundo.

3. http://bit.ly/PEAFAL3
Everything is on-line!

4. Sorry... attribution uncertain!

5. Twitter
¡Hola!... No estoy tan aburrido en la charla de
@avunque #zenofteaching en #PEAFAL3

6. zenofteaching.us

7. The limits of my language
are the limits of my world
-L. Wittgenstein

8. This video says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_dBQPAeDY

10. The computer is everywhere
The cellphone is everywhere
The Web is everywhere

11. Welcome, William
Hamlet (Facebook edition, XXI Century)
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/antwerplettuce/hamlet.html

12. From NMC’s Horizon Project 10-year Anniversary Retreat, Austin, January 2012

13. "Computers won't begin to have a real impact
on education until they are seen as the
message rather than the
medium. Computers ought not be a new
means of producing a slide show.”
-R. Schank

14. Web 2.0 > Learning 2.0
The Web: Fundamental
pedagogic environment
(Suter 2005)

15. Also, a living environment

16. “By removing the central
control points, the Web enabled a
self-organizing, self-stimulating
growth of contents and
links on a scale the world has
literally never before experienced.”
--David Weinberger
No control
>>>Power to the People<<<

17. los usuarios
aportan contenido

18. los usuarios
aportamos el contenido
¡Somos la nueva Web!

20. Storify
Zen of Teaching - The Workshop
NMC 2012 @ MIT, June 2012

21. This is Barack Obama

22. However...
The Web is not being used at the
max of its innovation capability;
It’s used to “reformulate what is
already familiar” (Alan Kay)

23. A pity...
Since the Web + Allow for
Social Networks + UNPRECEDENTED
Smartphones + SPACE OF
Media +... CONNECTIONS FOR
Augmented Reality TEACHING AND
+... Geolocation LEARNING

24. So, What is Wrong with Higher Ed?
I mean, is there really something wrong?
Or it’s just a media fad?

25. As quoted by G. Campbell, EDUCAUSE ELI 2012, Austin, February 2012

26. The Education Bubble?

27. Peter Thiel - unCollege
“If Harvard were really the best education, if
it makes that much of a difference, why not
franchise it so more people can attend? Why
not create 100 Harvard affiliates?” ... “It’s
something about the scarcity and the status.
In education your value depends
on other people failing.”
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
Sarah Lacy, TechCrunch, April 10, 2011: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/

28. Quality?
Arum & Roska:
45% of students showed “no significant improvement”
over one year of study (freshmen in fall 2005 through spring
2007). 36% showed no improvement after the whole 4 years
of college “education”.
“American higher education is characterized by limited
or no learning for a large proportion of students.”
“Your So-Called Education”, The New York Times May 14, 2011; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15arum.html?_r=3
“Large numbers of the students were making their way through college with minimal exposure to rigorous
coursework, only a modest investment of effort and little or no meaningful improvement in skills like writing
and reasoning. In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with
more than 40 pages of reading per week, and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20
pages of writing over the semester. The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying
— about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying.”

29. Still...
“Universities continue to
serve as remarkable
engines of
innovation”
-S. Johnson

30. Conectivismo

31. Learning
::
Connecting
(ideas :: opinions ::
persons :: knowledge ::
devices)

32. Connecting
CREATING
links

33. To Learn Means
Creating &
Navigating
Networks

34. “Hell is a place where
nothing connects to
nothing”
-T.S. Elliot (via M. Núñez)

35. Ideas As Connections

38. PLN
Medios externos que llenarán ese
espacio entre lo que soy y lo que
puedo ser, en cada momento de mi
vida.
-D. Reig

39. Change
Content
:::
Conversations
in network

40. Is connectivism a learning
theory?
Who cares.
-G. Siemens

41. Connections
Learners should experience chaos
& confusion
Autonomy is key
Learners in Control of their
learning
Openness

42. More Connections
Study, the word less used
in education.

43. The Myths

44. Myth Zero
Learning
Happens in the
Classroom
Because we
deliver
instruction

45. Lecture
Etymology
14th century: action of
reading, that which is read,
from the Latin lectus, pp. of
legere "to read."
oral discourse on a given
subject before an audience for
purposes of instruction is from
the 16th century.
Verb "to lecture" ~ 1590.
c. 1350

47. ...Students “sit” through a semester
worth of lectures, while “distance”
students “watch” online.
Live vs. Distance Learning: Measuring the Differences
From The New York Times, November 5, 2010 / http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05collegeside.html?_r=1

50. Myth Zero.1
...Ergo
Method is key
Use the Correct
... Learning
Method combined with
Right Content and
happens!!!!!
Right Teacher and...

51. Myth Zero.2
... Without studying (or action)
And no responsibility!! [Upon the student]
The Student: Namely, she who studies!!!

52. Studying
There is so little “studying” going on in Colleges
that “there is no compelling understanding among
students of why they are there. [...] They may spend
Monday in ‘19th Century Women’s Literature’,
Tuesday in “Animal Behavior’, and Wednesday in
‘Eastern Philosophy’...”
What is a college education really worth?, The Washington Post,
June 3, 2011.

53. More Study
Study, the word least used in
education.

54. “To Study”
The Road Less Traveled
Zero: Number of
occurrences of verb “to
study” within Siemens’
book Knowing Knowledge.

55. Myth Zero.3
...at end of Lecture,
learning can be
Consequently... assessed
by means of...
Standardized Testing!!!

56. PISA
{Not this one}

57. PISA, Finland
No standardized
testing Accountability is
something that is
Equity
left when
No word for responsibility has
Accountability in been subtracted.
Finnish --Pasi Sahlberg, director of Finnish Ministry
of Education's Center for International
Mobility
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
Anu Partanen - The Atlantic, 29 December 2011
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/

58. Myth
Content

59. Content & LMS
“Blackboard is itself an embodiment of the university culture that
Neary and Winn rightly find so troubling: students cycle through a
system that structurally, aesthetically and
rhetorically reinforces the notions that
education is consumption, the faculty
member is a content provider, the classroom
is hierarchical, and learning is closed”
Luke Waltzer, On EdTech and the Digital Humanities; http://lukewaltzer.com/on-edtech-and-the-digital-humanities
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2009) The student as producer: reinventing the student experience in higher
education. In: The future of higher education: policy, pedagogy and the student experience. Continuum, London,
pp. 192-210.

60. Let's shutter our "learning
management systems" and build
"understanding
augmentation networks"
instead, moving away from
educational assembly lines
toward intellectual ecosystems of
interest and curiosity.
--Gardner Campbell

61. Myth
The Shallows

63. Myth
Death of The Book

64. Death of the
Book
Ceci tuera cela (via
Eco & McLuhan)
Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frollo,
comparing a book with his old cathedral,
says: "Ceci tuera cela" (The book will kill
the cathedral, the alphabet will kill
images).
McLuhan, comparing a Manhattan
discotheque to the Gutenberg Galaxy, said
"Ceci tuera cela."
Nunberg, G. (1997) The Future of the Book. Berkeley; University of
California Press. Eco’s afterword is available online at http://
www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_future_of_book.html.

65. “ The enormous
multiplication of books
in every branch of
knowledge is one of the
greatest evils of this age;
“ The multitude of
books is a great
evil. There is no
since it presents one of measure of limit to
the most serious this fever for
obstacles to the writing.
acquisition of correct
--Martin Luther
information.
--Edgar Allan Poe
As quoted by Clay Shirky in his rebuttal article Does the Internet Make You Smarter?; The Wall Street Jornal, June 4, 2010; http://
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html

66. Death of an Industry?
“It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a
publishing industry, because the core problem publishing
solves - the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense
of making something available to the public - has
stopped being a problem.”
--Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky’s Blog, 13 March 2009: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable; http://www.shirky.com/weblog/
2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable

67. Death of...

71. Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica.
Windows Did.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/wikipedia-didnt-kill-brittanica-windows-did/

72. Myth
Curricula / Infrastructure

73. Departments
Departmentalization of knowledge and its effects
Mark C. Taylor, a religion scholar at Columbia University, has
a vision of a University where “zones of inquiry can be
organized around a broad range of topics: Mind, Body. Law,
Information, Networks, Language, … and Water.” Can you
imagine a Water program? It could “bring together people
in the humanities, arts, sciences... with professional schools
like Medicine, law...”
“End the University as We Know It”; The New York Times of 27 April 2009,
Mark C. Taylor

74. Dave Winer proposes
“We should aim to recreate the
environment that made the Internet
itself spring into existence, in
academic institutions.”
--Dave Winer
Scripting News, 31 May 2011; http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/31/isThereAnEducationBubble.html

75. Myth
Teachers: Can We Be Replaced By Machines?

76. Interview
Your Job As A Teacher
Wesch & Campbell, EDUCAUSE ELI 2012

77. Myth
Technology

78. Integrating Technology into
the Curriculum

79. Technologies!
Language
Paper, pencil,
blackboard, BOOK
Humanity is our
first technology.
We are tools.
--K. Kelly

80. Technology
We shape tools “We shape our
Tools shape us
buildings; thereafter
Tools change us
We change tools
they shape us.”
Repeat --Winston Churchill

81. Myth
Don’t Need Internet / Twitter / Whatever...
OR
Turn Those Devices Off!

86. Myth
Science vs Humanities / STEM vs STEAM
Liberal Arts

90. Now What?

91. Now What?
Innovations

92. MOOC
“What we found was that in a MOOC, instead of
the classroom being the center, it becomes just
one node of the network of social interactions."
--G. Siemens

93. Learning
::
(create) Connections
(navigate) Connections

94. Interview
We have always underestimated the value of
access to each other. -Clay Shirky

95. Papert, Minsky & Kay (2005):
• “The key educational task is to
make connections
between powerful ideas and
passionate interests.
• Teach to think deeply
• Teach to think rigorously”

96. Learning
Sense Making

97. Khan Academy
Udacity
P2PU

99. Conclusion

100. What role do blogs, [_____] play in
the classroom or online learning?
“Any role you want.”
-G. Siemens

101. Learning...
Learners should experience chaos &
confusion
Autonomy is key
Learners in Control of their learning
Openness

103. That’s all, folks
antonio vantaggiato @avunque
e-mail me > avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
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