No more what! Why TEL and Learning Analytics?

I think this is worth watching and contemplating. Most of what I see related to TEL and Learning Analytics at CSU focuses on the What. What capabilities do TEL and learning analytics provide. I spent the entire day in a workshop with well intentioned CSU advisors focused on change and implementation of data-driven tools. After listening to our outstanding advisors it was clear... they are beginning to grasp the what... but are uninspired because the why is simply missing. So the basic question is... why are we doing this?


 

NOTE: here is a link to a wikipedia article on Samuel Pierpont Langley (mentined in Simon's TED talk).

Checklist 1-27-2016

Here is a list of activities assigned on January 27th, 2016

• Due by Wednesday - 2 / 3 / 2016

1) Read the Introduction and Chapter 1 in the book Why Don't Students Like School

2) Complete assignment: Champions and critics of teaching machines (see previous post)
3) Subscribe to classmates' blogs and "Diggs" (Diggs RSS)
3) Read classmates blog posts and comment when inspired
4) Continue to curate your Digg account by adding and removing RSS feeds and "Digg" interesting items related to this course. 

Champions and critics of teaching machines (45-60 mins)

Watch this six-minute video on Teaching Machines, presented by B.F. Skinner (exact date is unverified but believed to be in the 1950s). To put it in historical context, you may find it useful to skim this short history of instructional design, which is itself a historical artifact from the early years of the World Wide Web.

Pick one or two of the following thinkers or approaches and read a bit about them, starting with the resources linked. What would they like about the Teaching Machines approach? What would they oppose, and what alternatives would they propose?

Socratic Method

Communities of Practice

     Etienne Wenger

     Jean Lave

Paulo Freire

Ivan Illich

Social Constructivism

Actor Network Theory

Emergent Learning Model

Assignment: 

Write a blog post about what you think of the “teaching machine.” How do the approaches or above thinkers support (or go against) your thoughts?

Read the blog posts of your classmates and comment on their thoughts.

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Checklist 1 / 20 / 2016

Photo by: Ewoud

Here is a list of activities assigned on January 20th, 2016

• Due by Wednesday - 1 / 27 /2016

1) Read the assigned articles (see previous post)

2) Create a short blog post about these readings (oh yes, create a blog in Google's Blogger or other)

3) Signup for a free digg account (digg.com) and subscribe to this blog (if you get stuck on this step don't panic - we will visit this in class). 

4) Use your digg account throughout this semester to subscribe to interesting content

5) Come prepared to discuss readings on Wednesday
6) Bring a laptop or device to class on Wednesday 

Readings for week #2 (assigned 1 / 20 / 2016)

Read the following articles:

Brown, J.S. (2000). Growing up: Digital: How the web changes work, education, and the ways people learn. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 32(2), 11-20

Kop, R., & Hill, A. (2008). Connectivism: Learning theory of the future or vestige of the past?. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 9(3).

Siemens, G. (2008). Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators and designers. ITFORUM for Discussion, 1-26.

Write a blog post that synthesizes these articles. Please post before next Wednesday and come prepared to discuss.

Welcome to EDUC 792 - Technology Enhanced Learning

I will create blog posts related to our class within this blog. Here is the image I introduced in class. This will provide us with a overall framework for the course. As you will notice the assignments have been designed to highlight these areas and to help us connect concepts.