11/16/ Access Constellations Technology and Public Education
11/16/ o Civic participation o Quality o Access o $
11/16/ Context
11/16/ Cost of powerful, responsive computing declines as access to digital devices increases.
11/16/ Technology is anything that was invented after you were born ~ Alan Kay ~
11/16/ students are using digital technologies more intuitively to share & collaborate
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8 Participatory Culture
11/16/ more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005),
11/16/ low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
11/16/ strong support for creating and sharing creations with others
11/16/ informal mentorships - what is known most experienced is passed along to novices
11/16/ members feel that their contributions matter
11/16/ Affiliations: memberships, formal and informal, in online communities. Expressions: new creative forms, mashups, sampling, fan videos, fan fiction writing, photologs
11/16/ Collaborative Problem-solving — formal and informal work in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (Wikipedia, MMORPG). Circulations — Shaping the flow of media (podcasting, blogging).
11/16/ Implications
11/16/ peer-to-peer learning,
11/16/ a changed attitude toward intellectual property,
11/16/ skills valued in the modern workplace an empowered conception of citizenship.
11/16/ Developments 1.Blended learning 2.Mobile learning 3.Open Educational Resources (OER)
11/16/ Blended Learning
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11/16/ The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. ~ William Gibson ~
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11/16/ Blended Learning Exemplars
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11/16/ Physics 12 Mr. Nenzen Charles Bloom Secondary Lumby, BC
11/16/ Blended Learning Benefits
11/16/ differentiated instruction
11/16/ pacing & time shifting
11/16/ supporting new literacies
11/16/ learning as a process not individual learning events
11/16/ Integration of Blended Learning & Online Learning
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11/16/ “Cell phones should absolutely be banned from school….” “They are nothing but a disruption to class instruction….” “...simply not a necessity for being successful in school.”
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11/16/ Open Educational Resources
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11/16/ Collaboratively authored educational textbooks.
11/16/ adoption and procurement of school textbooks is complex
11/16/ Free = lack of quality and seriousness?
11/16/ given sufficient critical mass - quality issues and licensing issues will be addressed
11/16/ mass collaboration with open peer review can result in high quality content.
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11/16/ the end of editions
11/16/ fluid resource ecosystems
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11/16/ In the long run, it will be very difficult for proprietary textbook publishers to compete with freely licensed alternatives. An open project with dozens of professors adapting and refining a textbook on a particular subject will be a very difficult thing for a proprietary publisher to compete with. The point is: there are a huge number of people who are qualified to write these resources, and we now have tools to leave them to do that. ~ Lawrence Lessig ~
11/16/ Policy Considerations
11/16/ Access
11/16/ Multiple entry points for courses
11/16/ Differentiated instruction
11/16/ Rethinking ‘the school year’
11/16/ Quality
11/16/ Open resources for peer based or expert quality review.
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11/16/ Textbooks Travel Timelines
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