first Siemens talking (well - i missed his talk... joined at the q&a)..
talking about it support - how does it support innovation and still maintain it's mandate..
and accredi
funny - just commented on less talking... and in this livestream says:
innovation vs parts of the system that have a clear model of how you test and deploy apps, when we wanted live applications...they answer to a different higher up.
a lot of dialogue... and dialogue is tough when you're learning to dislike each other.. :)
when you are passionate about trying something new... you're not always that organized...
waiting often kills the innovation.
research/innovation center - there needs to be a space where innovation can be.
realize the mandates... but there needs to be a place where a few innovators can play around and even break things....
how do you move strategies from innovators to 2nd wave...
- have people experience it
many things are dramatically different in theory than in practice.
the system needs to say.. how do we encourage people who don't
how critical is 1to1 in k-12 to higher ed...
sometimes we want 4to1, and most often kids bring in their own 1to1.
there is an inherent social drive with tech..
appropriate experimentation is very useful...
forceful pushing 1to1 in kind may not be necessary..
what kind of a institution do we need today...
typically - it's been additive
in that regard - the roll of the uni..
3 potential neg's.....
as we reduce social means.. we end up dehumanizing - as we focus on the increased structure of technique and tool
is tech depersonalizing - no - but
kills your pocketbook - there's an urgency around buying tech
we hold tech to a higher standard...but also - the options are constrained - because of our limited views
putting dollars into the research?
what research is being conducted on the significance of tech in ed
difficult for educators to accept the research that someone else has done...
a lot of things we know about ed that we're just not doing...
one difficulties with tech.... since 2000ish - now that we know we should use it.... how should we use it.
we need research labs that focuses on the ed tech problem
surprisingly - people are content to just use what's there and publish a paper.
pools of innovation happening all over but no cohesive integrated structure that amplifies the affect of the research.
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while i'm waiting in the break... @tonnet tweets this pdf on ed futurelab
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Couros talking...
open and networked learning
depending on tools we use... what sorts of affordances do we have...
take learning docs that can become portfolios
ning - quite effective learning environment.. because it's fbesque
center of innovation... like to try this... and then it's ready that afternoon.
immersive, mobile, collaborative and social
personalization....
how do we take what is a very closed set of structure/procedures... and move it forward...
helping students understand private vs public
faculty members need to be more media literate - to see where our kids are at... this will lead us to places where we can use these tools in prof networks
key enablers -
1. free tools:
plethora of free tools - he showed several he uses everyday.. and also said most of them are not available in school.
danah boyd - collapsed contexts - where we're speaking to all different areas at the same time
eric whittacre - brings a ton of people together singing
ning - single tweet from alec - he used a live doc to collect ideas... almost as beautiful as eric's music....the act of creation is a beautiful thing
2. free and open content:
mit was one of first
the content is not what's important - it's the relationships...
abundance of content search.creativecommons.org
Saul Kahn academy - started creating videos for his cousin
students, "learned more in last few weeks than last 2 years"
Will Richardson tweeted - what would happen if we merged Kahn with Dan Meyer
Will Richardson tweeted - what would happen if we merged Kahn with Dan Meyer
wanted to teach scratchmit to his undergrads - it's 8th graders teaching us
disruptive creativity - mother of all funk chords
3. open access:
just launched an open access journal... over 10,000 hits...
make published research accessible to anyone
directory of open access journals - 4-5000 now
also open access courses or pd's
college 2.0 - not institutionally mandated... just a bunch of prof's learning from each other
edchat
there are so many different ways to learn online now..
fast internet access...
worst part of youtube is the comments... worst side of humanity shows up there
what's more important is what the pipe does to us - rather than the knowledge
personalization... we don't want the $60 video of the whole dance team... we want the 2 min segment of our kid..
is personalization - a degree of choice - what is needed most?
if we aren't personalizing an experience for kids... what are we doing?
teens are not connecting in the ways that we fear - there are actually more adults doing that than kids via danah boyd
scalability
persistence
wesch and youtube communities... free hugs... connections without constraint... one world hand man
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