{"id":7,"date":"2011-06-04T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T10:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-06-04T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T10:04:15","slug":"emerging-learning-design-2011-a-selective-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Learning Design 2011:  A Selective Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/eld.montclair.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">Emerging Learning Design 2011 Conference<\/a> yesterday at Montclair State University. Here&#39;s a recap of key themes and ideas. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pedagogy First<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/intellagirl\" target=\"_self\">Intellagirl<\/a> kicked off the conference by reminding us that pedagogy comes first, technology second, and gave us a framework for assessing technologies for use in education. She urged us to tinker with new tools and understand what the creators of those tools had in mind from a design perspective and then see how those goals map to our own educational objectives.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/51804195\/Smith-Robbins-Dissertation-Defense-Slides\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Smith-Robbins Dissertation Defense Slides on Scribd\">Smith-Robbins Dissertation Defense Slides<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.2938689217759\" data-auto-height=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_1249\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/51804195\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=slideshow&amp;access_key=key-v1kpr17ww255axb3yct\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[\n\/\/ &amp;lt;![CDATA[\n(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(&amp;quot;script&amp;quot;); scribd.type = &amp;quot;text\/javascript&amp;quot;; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = &amp;quot;http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js&amp;quot;; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(&amp;quot;script&amp;quot;)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]&amp;gt;\n\/\/ ]]&gt;<\/script><br \/>\n&#0160;See <a href=\" http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/51804195\/Smith-Robbins-Dissertation-Defense-Slides\" target=\"_self\">slide 27 here<\/a>, to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking of Teaching Online? &#0160;Another Take.<br \/><\/strong>I wanted to hear how other folks are talking to new faculty about teaching online, so I attended Suzanne McCotter&#39;s Beginning Pedagogy for Teaching Online. &#0160;McCotter is the Associate Professor, Counseling and Educational Leadership at Montclair State University. &#0160;She said that students are ready to learn online teaching, and know how to interact. &#0160;I think a more accurate statement might be that some students are ready to learn online, but in general, I&#39;m skeptical that generation is really an issue. &#0160;Mark Bullen sums this up well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjlt.ca\/index.php\/cjlt\/article\/view\/550\/298\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>: &#0160; &#0160;Still, the idea that online teachers need to foster a sense of safety and community resonated. &#0160;I liked how she puts students in her asynchronous class in small discussion groups and then appoints a leader and someone to summarize the discussion for the larger class. &#0160;I am thinking I may give this approach a try for the research process and methodology course I&#39;m teaching this summer. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobile Transforms Teaching?<\/strong><br \/>I was somewhat fearful of attending Apple&#39;s sponsored presentation on Mobile Pedagogy in today&#39;s classroom by Jon Landis, but it turned out to be one of the day&#39;s most interesting sessions. &#0160;He notes that mobile devices with high speed connections will soon outnumber desktop devices and that approximately 63 percent of college students have smart phones. &#0160;He chafes at the notion that smart phones aren&#39;t allowed in K-12 environments and are merely tolerated in higher education. &#0160;He then goes onto argue that technology is changing, or should change how we teach. &#0160;He contends current educational models, whether in k-12 or higher ed, are predicated on information scarcity. &#0160;Information is not scarce, it&#39;s abundant and therefore the educators role changes from being an information expert to a concept shepherd. &#0160;(This idea echoed Intellagirl&#39;s idea that as educators we model the practices of master learners.) His pitch goes something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Content should be consumed by students outside of class. &#0160;Classes should be experiential. &#0160;When more materials are available to students and classes focus on doing and discussing instead of content dissemination that attendance goes up. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>He closed by making an ethical case for introducing innovations in education. &#0160;Landis slipped a disc 20 years ago. &#0160;A surgeon repaired it but it required a 3 inch incision and a 3 day stay in the hospital. &#0160;Some 10 years later (facts are placeholders to retell the anecdote), same surgery, 1 day in the hospital and a 1 inch incision. &#0160;A friend had the same surgery (coincidentally, so did I) just this year. 1\/2 inch incision and it did not require an overnight stay. &#0160;The same doctor performed all three surgeries. If that doctor used the same tools or techniques, he would be sued for malpractice. &#0160;Why are educators allowed to use the same methods? &#0160;He argued that it&#39;s unethical to stick with the same methods. &#0160;He urged participants to pick a single thing in their teaching that&#39;s not working and see if there&#39;s a way it could be improved. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#39;s Augment Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NYU&#39;s Craig Kapp presented on augmented reality. &#0160;He demonstrated how symbols could be embedded in textbooks to augment and update them. &#0160;If that sounds abstract, imagine a children&#39;s book where holding the pages up could produce a 3d image on screen that kids could then interact with through the computer&#39;s web cam. &#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooburst.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Zooburst<\/a> is an augmented reality authoring environment that lets people create their and share their own books. &#0160;He also demonstrated how to use QR codes to conduct real time simple surveys in class. When you see a QR code, you see a link to the virtual world.&#0160;<br \/>In sum, we&#39;re carrying around tremendous computing power that gives us new ways of seeing, connecting and learning. &#0160;More about Craig&#39;s work on his<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craigkapp.com\/ \" target=\"_self\"> blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#39;s presenters were invited. &#0160;The call for presentations is scheduled for September of 2011. &#0160;I&#39;d like <a href=\"http:\/\/distancelearning.scps.nyu.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">us<\/a> to be there to talk about online learning. &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Emerging Learning Design 2011 Conference yesterday at Montclair State University. Here&#39;s a recap of key themes and ideas. &#0160; Pedagogy First Intellagirl kicked off the conference by reminding us that pedagogy comes first, technology second, and gave us a framework for assessing technologies for use in education. 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