Tolhurst 2007--Students with more complex epistemological beliefs did better in courses.
Allen and colleagues (2007) initiated their first college student-written textbook--online.
Dwight Allen--Social and Cultural Foundations of America Education--in Wiki Books.
2nd and 3rd Edition of the Wikibooks.
Later version is 5th Edition.
Foundations and Instructional Assessment--5th Edition.
Put out the new set of topics an d students write a 1000 word article on a topic of their choice, citing at least five references: two articles from peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to writing on their selected topics students were also permitted to write "wilcards" articles on topics not identified by course instructors, "sidebas" multiple coic questions and peer evaluation.
SEE ARTICLE FOR CLARIFICATION
Friday, March 07, 2008
One Laptop per Child: The Cognitive Challenges
Antonio M Battro--One Laptop for Every Child
Keynote Presentation at SITE 2008, Las Vegas NV
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of Media Lab, MIT
Initial Concept--Get laptops in Developing Countries
Children are given laptops and they belong to them.
Goal of One Laptop for Every Child is to Saturate Developing Countries with these machines.
Gave example of Uruguay--Makes the point that machines are not given through the Ministry of Education, and/but to the child.
Machine is designed for early ages!
Screen is icon-based.
Uruguay is starting in kindergarten. Original idea was to start at first grade, but One Laptop Per Child is not open to that.
Battro studied with Jean Piaget--and he is influenced by Piaget and Seymour Papert. Papert asserted back in '61, that children should have computers.
Constructionism
Learning to Learn
Children Teach--they start to teach very early.
This is why the PCs are given to children--so that if millions of computers are in children's hands then there willb e millions of teachers.
Says that Howard Gardner is looking at Digital Intelligence--
Talked about study where parrots recognize each other speak through computers.
This is why computers work with children--they can make them speak!
While there are studies on the "learning brain," there are no studies on the "teaching brain."
Again, this is why children have the computers, bc children can teach!
Relates to model of "the other mind."
We know that the other doesn't know and we know when the other knows--in between we have all teh skills to teach and learn.
In the near future, we will have in the classroom, this kind of equipment distributed among teachers and students to measure this kind of activity.
Saturation--
By the end of the year, every child in on particular community will have a machine.
This is a kind of vaccination.
Education by vaccination--It's key that everyone be vaccinated--so saturation is key with computers--every child needs one.
Computers that are distributed are wireless. Schools have the wireless servers and there is accessibility up to 1K from the computer.
Likes the metaphor--computer as a town--does not like computer as a tool.
The computers work with multiple language.s
Textbooks are electronic and received through the computer.
Small computer--little green handle--screen can be read in bright sun. Machine is very robust and has excellent internal ergonomics.
Shows a picture of a school in Nairobi--no doors--no windows. Little Nairobi girl is carrying her machine to school on her head--like someone in their village might carry water or basket.
www.laptop.org
Computer is not a “tool” but rather a town—opens up the community of learning to include teachers, students, parents—local experts.
Teachers are our best collaborators.
Important to have the computers with them all the time—not just in a lab, or at scheduled formal meetings, but accessible for sharing at any time.
Student Written Textbooks:
Re-define the process of curriculum. One participant suggested that there is a simple topical list of curriculum that students then go and add to that—flesh it out, so there is both directed curriculum and student-generated curriculum.
Censorship question is raised. Are some countries resistant to this program bc it threatens the power?
To apply. Come to Cambridge, spend a week with a team from your country and go to a workshop that is designed for you.
Question about “the electronic book.”
In this program---any teacher can download any book that he/she wants, if they have access to the One Laptop for Every Child database.
These computers are had cranked—10 minutes of crank=one hour of battery time.
The batteries run up to 8 hours.
Schools in the program must have wireless network.
Computers must be given to the children so they can be use at school and at home—expand the hours of work in millions of ways.
Program: Take One Give Many—helps organizations give computers
Keynote Presentation at SITE 2008, Las Vegas NV
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of Media Lab, MIT
Initial Concept--Get laptops in Developing Countries
Children are given laptops and they belong to them.
Goal of One Laptop for Every Child is to Saturate Developing Countries with these machines.
Gave example of Uruguay--Makes the point that machines are not given through the Ministry of Education, and/but to the child.
Machine is designed for early ages!
Screen is icon-based.
Uruguay is starting in kindergarten. Original idea was to start at first grade, but One Laptop Per Child is not open to that.
Battro studied with Jean Piaget--and he is influenced by Piaget and Seymour Papert. Papert asserted back in '61, that children should have computers.
Constructionism
Learning to Learn
Children Teach--they start to teach very early.
This is why the PCs are given to children--so that if millions of computers are in children's hands then there willb e millions of teachers.
Says that Howard Gardner is looking at Digital Intelligence--
Talked about study where parrots recognize each other speak through computers.
This is why computers work with children--they can make them speak!
While there are studies on the "learning brain," there are no studies on the "teaching brain."
Again, this is why children have the computers, bc children can teach!
Relates to model of "the other mind."
We know that the other doesn't know and we know when the other knows--in between we have all teh skills to teach and learn.
In the near future, we will have in the classroom, this kind of equipment distributed among teachers and students to measure this kind of activity.
Saturation--
By the end of the year, every child in on particular community will have a machine.
This is a kind of vaccination.
Education by vaccination--It's key that everyone be vaccinated--so saturation is key with computers--every child needs one.
Computers that are distributed are wireless. Schools have the wireless servers and there is accessibility up to 1K from the computer.
Likes the metaphor--computer as a town--does not like computer as a tool.
The computers work with multiple language.s
Textbooks are electronic and received through the computer.
Small computer--little green handle--screen can be read in bright sun. Machine is very robust and has excellent internal ergonomics.
Shows a picture of a school in Nairobi--no doors--no windows. Little Nairobi girl is carrying her machine to school on her head--like someone in their village might carry water or basket.
www.laptop.org
Computer is not a “tool” but rather a town—opens up the community of learning to include teachers, students, parents—local experts.
Teachers are our best collaborators.
Important to have the computers with them all the time—not just in a lab, or at scheduled formal meetings, but accessible for sharing at any time.
Student Written Textbooks:
Re-define the process of curriculum. One participant suggested that there is a simple topical list of curriculum that students then go and add to that—flesh it out, so there is both directed curriculum and student-generated curriculum.
Censorship question is raised. Are some countries resistant to this program bc it threatens the power?
To apply. Come to Cambridge, spend a week with a team from your country and go to a workshop that is designed for you.
Question about “the electronic book.”
In this program---any teacher can download any book that he/she wants, if they have access to the One Laptop for Every Child database.
These computers are had cranked—10 minutes of crank=one hour of battery time.
The batteries run up to 8 hours.
Schools in the program must have wireless network.
Computers must be given to the children so they can be use at school and at home—expand the hours of work in millions of ways.
Program: Take One Give Many—helps organizations give computers
Thursday, March 06, 2008
3 Great Presentations from Th Afteroon
Look these papers up in the SITE Digital Library
Technology Implementation: Movie Maker for Pre-and Inservice Teachers (219610
John Rognhua Ouyang, Mark Warner, Kennesaw State University
Student Created Content: It's Effect on Professional Development (21774)
Gerald Benson, Durham Academy, USA
The relational method by which students talk to each other--open source social network will be big in a few years--this is what we are doing now!
This generation has been named---it's the WE generation--the most connected, collaborative generation.
Technology Implementation: Movie Maker for Pre-and Inservice Teachers (219610
John Rognhua Ouyang, Mark Warner, Kennesaw State University
Student Created Content: It's Effect on Professional Development (21774)
Gerald Benson, Durham Academy, USA
The relational method by which students talk to each other--open source social network will be big in a few years--this is what we are doing now!
This generation has been named---it's the WE generation--the most connected, collaborative generation.
Modeling Wiki Use in Technology Courses to Help Teachers Use Wikis in Their Classroom
Swapna Kumar, Boston University
A Four Year Study of Teachers' Attitudes Towards Integration in Schools
Yuilang Liu--Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
100% of American Schools have Internet Access
Teachers compared to other professionals were less likely to use computers.
Current pressure at various levels to reform K-12 education with tech integration
Teacher's attitude is one of the major human factors that has a significant impact on computer adoption or implementation of technology in the classroom.
In the mid 1980s and early 1990s there was a national technology integration project entitled "Apple Classroom of Tomorrow"
Sandholts, Ringstaff, and Dwyer (1997) ACOT studies investigate teachers' instructional evolution described by five stages of concern present when high levels of technology implementation are experienced across the curriculum
Entry
Adoption
Adaption
Appropriation
Invention
Hall, George, and Rutherford (1977) Teachers' Stages of Concern
0 Awareness
1 Informational
2 Personal
3 Management
4 Consequence
5 Collaboration
6 Refocusing
Continuum of Concerns of Tech Integration (lower to higher levels and from internal to external)
Studies report that K-12 teachers exhibeted a higher intensity of concern in stages 0-2 and a lower intensity concern in stages 4-6.
Research Questions:
What pattern and trend of concern over a four-year period was revealed in teachers' responses to the Stages of Concerns (S0C)
(Missing two research questions)
SoC questionnaire (Hall et al 1977)
Get conclusions from this paper in the Digital Library
100% of American Schools have Internet Access
Teachers compared to other professionals were less likely to use computers.
Current pressure at various levels to reform K-12 education with tech integration
Teacher's attitude is one of the major human factors that has a significant impact on computer adoption or implementation of technology in the classroom.
In the mid 1980s and early 1990s there was a national technology integration project entitled "Apple Classroom of Tomorrow"
Sandholts, Ringstaff, and Dwyer (1997) ACOT studies investigate teachers' instructional evolution described by five stages of concern present when high levels of technology implementation are experienced across the curriculum
Entry
Adoption
Adaption
Appropriation
Invention
Hall, George, and Rutherford (1977) Teachers' Stages of Concern
0 Awareness
1 Informational
2 Personal
3 Management
4 Consequence
5 Collaboration
6 Refocusing
Continuum of Concerns of Tech Integration (lower to higher levels and from internal to external)
Studies report that K-12 teachers exhibeted a higher intensity of concern in stages 0-2 and a lower intensity concern in stages 4-6.
Research Questions:
What pattern and trend of concern over a four-year period was revealed in teachers' responses to the Stages of Concerns (S0C)
(Missing two research questions)
SoC questionnaire (Hall et al 1977)
Get conclusions from this paper in the Digital Library
Reflections from SITE, March 2008
Edublogging: Instruction for the Digital Age Learner--Jeffrey Felix. Ed.D
jfelix73@cox.net
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