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- Instructional Technology Conference
- University of Missouri Kansas City
- January 7, 2009
- Robert O. Keel
- Teaching Professor
- Department of Sociology
- UM-St. Louis
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- Spoken Language ~50,000 years ago
- Written Language circa 4th millennium BCE
- Moveable Type Printing: 1440 (Chinese ~1100)
- Telephone: 1875 (telegraph: 1843)
- Phonograph: 1877
- Movies: 1890
- Radio: 1895
- Television: 1927
- ENIAC: 1946
- Internet (ARPANET): 1969
- WWW: 1991
- Podcast: 2004
- 2008: Congressional hearings on “Second Life”
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- Digital: “I've grown up with technology. I've been on a
computer from age 5.”1
- “Devices”
- Mobile: “A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as
the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition
improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves.”2
- Interactive
- Online
- Multi-channel
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- Coming to a classroom near you.
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- 93% of teens use the internet—more and more as a tool
for interaction.
- 64% of online teens engage in content creation.
- 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online.
- 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others
- 28% have created their own blog.
- 27% maintain their own personal webpage.
- 26% remix content they find online into their own creations.
- 64% of online teens (59% of all teens) said “yes” to at least one of the
above.
- 55% of online teens ages use Facebook or MySpace.
- 47% of online teens have uploaded photos online
- 14% of online teens have posted videos online.
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- The percent of teens who communicate with their friends every day via
these methods…
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- 1996, Sherry Turkle (Life on the Screen)
- Computers as "objects to think with."
- "Computers would not be the culturally powerful objects they are
turning out to be if people were not falling in love with their
machines and the ideas that the machines carry....Today, the personal
computer culture's most compelling objects give people a way to think
concretely about an identity crisis. In simulation, identity can be
fluid and multiple."1
- Tinkering with multiple modes of interaction
- "For planners, mistakes are steps in the wrong direction:
bricoleurs navigate through midcourse corrections. Bricoleurs approach
problem-solving by entering into a relationship with their work
materials that has more the flavor of a conversation than a monologue.“2
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- Teaching Sociology
- Teaching with Imagination
- Increasing channels of communication and interaction.1
- “Collaboration is increasingly seen as critical across the range of
educational activities, including intra- and inter-institutional
activities of any size or scope. 2
- “Collaboration Webs. Collaboration no longer calls for expensive
equipment and specialized expertise.”3
- “Collective Intelligence. The kind of knowledge and understanding that
emerges from large groups of people is collective intelligence.”4
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- Students today (Fall 2008 UMSL data)
- Traditional and Non-traditional (median age: 27)
- Commuters (80%)
- Most: Computer savvy
- Own computers (95%)
- Broadband users (over 85%)
- Mobile (78% use wireless technology of some sort)
- Student engagement and interaction
- Social Learning
- Flexibility and Accessibility
- NetGen is coming
- Post-modernity
- But not just because…..
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- WWW (release .01) circa 1993
- MyGateway (Blackboard) circa 2000.
Multiple sections
combined as one “course.”
- Asynchronous:
- Discussion Boards
- Lecture notes
- Multimedia
- Internet Activities
- Tutorials (StudyMate)
- Online testing and quizzes (admin)
- Synchronous:
- Face-to-Face
- Wimba Live Classroom
- Interactive:
- Group Projects—wikis (another)
- Real Life Research
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- Courses FS 2008: 2166 “courses” active in MyGateway.
- Instructors FS 2008: 670 using MyGateway in one or more courses (68%).
- Students: 11,673 distinct student logins recorded (75% of all registered
students).
- WS 2008 opinion poll of student users of MyGateway. 744 respondents (6.3% of student
users).
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- I would suggest that all UMSL professors should be required to use
MyGateway to some extent - at least to post the course syllabus, other
class documents, assignment deadlines and email contact information.
- MyGateway is a fantastic tool when teachers actually use it. I like it
specifically for the Gradebook. I love knowing exactly where I am at in
the class. Unfortunately, only half of my teachers actually record
grades. One teacher records grades but long after the actually
assignment and the other does not record any grades whatsoever. I think
the teachers should be encouraged to use this feature of MyGateway to
help the students.
- I am a 41 year old adult returning student. MyGateway was new to me this
semster. I love it! It's a great way to keep in touch with the teacher
and other students. I like seeing my grades posted as well. Thanks!
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- The ability to access classes online is wonderful. Not only does it
allow me to work from home at my own pace, It frees up a lot of time
driving back and forth to classes as well as attending the physical
classes The major benefit for me with MyGateway is the ability for
professors to offer hybrid courses that combine in-classroom with
online. This reduces the need for adult working professionals to have to
physically come to campus, which often involves taking time away from
work responsibilities. …The flexibility this provides to us is greatly
appreciated.
- [When I need] something I can download a copy of that item from the
class site. If I don't want to have a lot of paper items I can look at
them as I need them on MyGateway. Also, communicating with other
students is easier because everyone's email address is located in
MyGateway.
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- Overall the best part of the course was the use of the wimba, it enabled
me to not have to be at the campus to attend the lecture. I really
appreciated having it as a resource.
- “Using wimba is a good tool to review, lecture, and to clarify things..”
- “I did not use Wimba live to attend the class but I am glad it was
available. I have used it to play back for attendance credit only. I
would like for this feature to be added to other courses at UM-StLouis.”
- “The flexibility and convenience of Wimba allowed me to attend EVERY
class. In a traditional classroom course, I would have missed at least 4
classes.”
- “I think that all courses should have the wimba archives
available!!! I travel a lot and it was great to have a class that
I could be out of town and still attend.”
- If it weren't for WIMBA I would not have been able to take this
class. I have taken other "on-line" courses at other
colleges and hated them. The archived "live" classes
were great.
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- “The wikis are an excellent tool. Interactive, easy to use, and
the final product is better than a group paper would be with
graphics and internal links. Plus, busy group members can input on
their own time, rather than trying to find a time and a place to meet.”
- “More than anything, the wiki's and discussion boards made me feel like
it was possible to have a thriving community of connected students that
persisted outside of the class. It helped me to identify students like
me more easily, by way of the quality of their interactions facilitated
by the tools provided.”
- “I would have liked to see a stronger set of tools for the wiki, perhaps
even on a platform with some degree of permanence so that all that work
wasn't lost to me upon completion of the course. I do see some downsides
to this, but that portion of the course was very addictive for me.”
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- What if you gave a lecture and nobody came?[i]
- Motivating Students: Rationalizing Rewards or Rewarding Rationality? (Is
this going to be on the test?)
- Making Something out of Nothing. (“…a social form that is generally
centrally conceived, controlled, and comparatively devoid of distinctive
substantive content.”[ii])
- Using Technology or Technology Using You?
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- Openness:
- Access to information and learning spaces
- Adjusting to change and adapting to users’ needs
- Interactivity
- Choice and multiplicity
- Transparency:
- Co-presence, Telepresence, or Simply Presence
- Community and University:
- "Essentially, a student's university career in such a system would
no longer be through a particular place, time, or preselected body of
academics, but through a network principally of their own making, yet
shaped by a degree granting body and its faculty. A student could
stay home or travel, mix on-line and off-line education, work in
classes or with mentors, and continue their learning long after taking
a degree.“ [1]
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- Virtual----Real: The issues of actuality and ways of being:
- "The virtual should, properly speaking, be compared not to the
real but the actual…It implies the production of new qualities, a
transformation of ideas, a true becoming that feeds the virtual in
turn.“ [i]
- Old dichotomies just don't work anymore.
- Distance Education----Traditional Education: How far away are you?
- Teacher----Learner: Who knows best?
- How do you not use technology in education?
- [i] Pierre Levy, 1998. Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital
Age, translated by Robert Bononno, Plenum Trade: New York. Pages
24-25.
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- "In looking at university change for its own sake or as an
indicator of change more generally, no one should underestimate the
remarkable staying power of these institutions. They have been
around...for more than 1,000 years. In that time, they have
survived many revolutions and may survive more yet, including the
digital one.“[1]
- Or, back to chalk?
[1] Brown and Duguid, 2000. Pages 24-241.
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- Robert Keel, rok@umsl.edu
- This presentation: http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/tinkering_with_technology_09/tinkering_with_technology_umkc_09.htm
(use MS-IE)
- Review all the MyGateway Students’ and Faculty Surveys http://www.umsl.edu/technology/mgwhelp/mgwinfo/mgwinfo.html.
- MyGateway Use Statistics: http://mygateway.umsl.edu/umsl/mgwstats/stats.htm
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