Technology and Education: Students, Learning, Jobs
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This document discusses how technology can be used to enhance learning for students. It notes that most students are already creators of online content and regular users of technology. However, they still need help finding and evaluating information and applying it. The document advocates for using technology to enable collaboration, immediate feedback, active learning, and multiple learning styles. It also looks at how emerging technologies like video, collaboration webs, and collective intelligence can be leveraged at different levels of complexity. Time constraints and openness to change are discussed as barriers to integrating more technology into education.
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Technology and Education: Students, Learning, Jobs
- 1. Technology and Education: Theory & Practice Laura Blankenship Presentation for Husson College, March 2008
- 2. Overview • Students, Learning, and the Job Market • Horizon Report • Examples, Low-High Threshold Activities • Topics for Discussion • Time constraints, Change, and other barriers
- 3. Who are your students?
- 4. Creators not just consumers • 59% of all teens (12-17) create content online • 28% have a blog • 27% have their own web page • 33% share photos, videos, etc. online • 26% remix content
- 5. Technology and School • 94% use the Internet to do schoolwork • 44% of 18-29 yo use Wikipedia for information • Only 14% of teens use email to communicate with friends •
- 6. Need our help Students can use technology for socializing or entertainment, but still have problems finding information, evaluating it and then putting it to use.
- 7. Learning • Collaboration • Immediate Feedback • Active Learning • Multiple learning styles
- 8. Jobs of the future • Not employed by single employer • Dislike of hierarchies • Career is plural
- 9. Gaming and work • Virtually all college students play “video” games • Failure is a norm; learn from failure • Take more risks
- 10. Distributed work • Telecommuting • Work across time and space • Rewards not based on face time
- 11. The Horizon Report • Joint project with New Media • 2005 Consortium and Educause • gaming • Attempts to predict trends in technology • ubiquitous wireless • Places within context of education • 2004 • learning objects • knowledge webs
- 12. Grassroots Video • User-created video • Shared via sites such as YouTube, Blinkx, Blip.tv • Streaming broadcast via Ustream • Broadband access & simple video apps allow proliferation
- 13. Video: Low Threshold • Find resources Child Development Economics/Marketing Language
- 14. Video: Medium Threshold •Student assignments •Tools of the trade •Language video •Cameras (Examples) •Video editing software •Economics--video of economics principles •Method of turning in •News broadcasts •Caveats •Skits and plays •Lessons for students
- 15. Video: High Threshold • Make your own video resources • DVD of clips • YouTube Channel--use for storing resources, recording recaps of class • Create a class video (Michael Wesch) • Resources the same as for student assignments • Biggest barrier--time
- 16. Collaboration Webs • Using tools to work with others • Share work with others • Converse about projects in real time and across time and space • No need for expensive equipment
- 18. Collaboration: Medium • Combine local resources with Web 2.0 Applications • Google docs • social bookmarking • blogs/wikis • Skype • Facebook • Contribute to existing projects such as Wikipedia
- 21. Enabling Technology • Wiki--editable documents on the web • RSS--Really Simple Syndication, the power behind blogs and other web 2.0 applications (wikis, Flickr, New York Times) • Ajax--fast interaction with web sites • Inexpensive video tools, broadband, voip (voice over ip)
- 22. Collective Intelligence • Knowledge is created by groups • Wikipedia is best known example • Data is collected, organized, analyzed by dispersed groups
- 23. Collective Intelligence: Low • Use existing resources • Swivel • Freebase • History Commons • UN datasets
- 24. Collective Intelligence: Medium • Contribute to existing resources • Upload new datasets • Add graphs or charts • Comment on analyses
- 25. Collective Intelligence: High • Make your own data resource • Civil Disobedience Wiki • Gulf of Maine Ocean Observations • Mashup your data • Match data with geographic points
- 26. Time? • Try one thing at a time • Get help • Put your students to work
- 27. Change • Don’t get too attached • Be open to learning • Seize opportunities
- 28. Resources • My presentation: • Resources handout • del.icio.us/lblanken/ techlearning
- 29. Questions?