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What ’ s New? The Promise and Peril of Digital Learning

What ’ s New? The Promise and Peril of Digital Learning. Justin Reich @ bjfr Blog: bit.ly / edtechresearcher Portfolio: edtechresearcher.org. What are the most promising uses of technology for learning?. Introduce yourself to your neighbor Submit responses to POLLEV.COM/JUSTINREICH.

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What ’ s New? The Promise and Peril of Digital Learning

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  1. What’s New?The Promise and Peril of Digital Learning Justin Reich @bjfr Blog: bit.ly/edtechresearcher Portfolio: edtechresearcher.org

  2. What are the most promising uses of technology for learning? • Introduce yourself to your neighbor • Submit responses to • POLLEV.COM/JUSTINREICH

  3. What Will the Future Look Like? • Intel Future Concepts • Alternates: • Microsoft 2020

  4. What’s New? • To what extent does technology allow us to do old things faster or more easily? • To what extent does technology allow us to create learning environments that are truly different?

  5. Framing Questions • How does the digital revolution make the CONTEXT of learning different? • What new FORMS are enabled by digital tools? • How do digital tools shape our MINDS?

  6. How does the digital make the CONTEXT of learning different?

  7. Wave #1: Computers and the Labor Market

  8. Skills for 21st Century Work and Life:The New Division of Labor Richard J. Murnane Harvard Graduate School of Education Frank Levy MIT

  9. Computerizing Routine Tasks: Self-Service Check-In

  10. Tasks that cannot be described well as a series of if-then-do steps because: Types of Tasks Computers Do Not Well • The boundaries of the problem are ill-defined • Solving the problem requires imagining novel solutions • We learn to define the task and accomplish it through social interactions

  11. Economy-Wide Measures of Routine and Non-Routine Task Input: 1969-1998 (1969=0)

  12. Changes in Task Mix Within Occupations: Example: Secretary 1970 description of a secretary’s job: “Secretaries relieve their employers of routine duties so they can work on more important matters. . . .” 2000 description of a secretary’s job: “. . . Office automation and organizational restructuring have led secretaries to assume a wide range of new responsibilities once reserved for managerial and professional staff. Many secretaries now provide training and orientation to new staff, conduct research on the Internet, and learn to operate new office technologies.” Source: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Handbook

  13. Examine the homework that teachers in your school typically assign: • Does the homework push students to develop expert thinking skills (non-routine problem solving) • What about communication skills? • Or does the homework ask students to do the kind of rules-based tasks that computers can be programmed to do? • The answer may tell you a lot about the types of jobs your school is preparing students to do. A Homework Question

  14. How do we put technology in the service of learning?

  15. What new FORMS are enabled by digital tools?

  16. Edward Thorndike Education as Science of Delivery John Dewey Education as Life

  17. “One cannot understand the history of education in the United States during the 20th century unless one realises that Edward L. Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.” -Ellen Lagemann

  18. Massively open online courses or moocs

  19. Links on MOOCs • Market: https://www.ai-class.com/ • Open: https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/

  20. Failed Attempts at Wikipedia

  21. Links on MOOCs • Market: https://www.ai-class.com/ • Open: https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/ • Dewey: http://ds106.us/

  22. Personalized Learning

  23. Personalized Learning: Khan Academy • http://www.khanacademy.org/new-and-noteworthy/v/the-gates-notes--teachers-in-los-altos • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/linear-equations-and-inequalitie/v/slope-and-rate-of-change • http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/equation-of-a-line/e/slope_of_a_line

  24. BTW, math videos don’t have to be lecture • Meyer on Problem Finding • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8#t=06m45s • Popcorn Picker • https://vimeo.com/42501010

  25. Personalized Learning:Roadtrip Nation • http://www.roadtripnation.org/

  26. We all agree that personalization is important… Therefore we will all disagree about what it means…

  27. How do digital media change our minds?

  28. Net Smart: Five Literacies • Attention • Collaboration • Participation • Crap Detection • Network Smarts

  29. “Kids are good at things like Facebook, but they don’t know how to conduct basic searches!”

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