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Virtual Museum of Educational Technology Project
SCoPE session, October 1, 2008Richard A. SchwierUniversity of Saskatchewan
Purposes of the project
• To investigate the contemporary history of educational technology
• To populate a virtual museum of educational technology with interviews, artifacts, media and print documents.
Question 1:
• What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?
Question 2:
• Who is the most influential scholar in educational technology you can name?
Question 3
• What is an important event in the history of educational technology?
Historical Lenses
Photo credit: André Karwath, Wikimedia Commons
The People Lens
The People Lens
The People Lens
Wikipedia:Karl FischIan JukesJamie McKenzieScott McLeodAlan NovemberSeymour PapertWill RichardsonGary StagerJohn SwellerJoyce Kazman ValenzaDavid WarlickDavid Marcovitz
Rick’s additions:ComeniusJames FinnRobert GagnéKaty CampbellAlbert BanduraGeorge SiemensStephen DownesMarshall McLuhanAllan PaivioMarcy DriscollM. David MerrillLarry LessigDavid JonassenCharles ReigeluthAndy GibbonsElizabeth BurgeDenys Hlynka
Your additions:
“Thinkers” in ECT lens
The Organizational Lens
- 2007
AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s
CAVA - 1961
EMAC-1968
DAVI - 1958
ETRAC - 1968
• CAVA News - 1958
• Educational Media - 1969 - 1971
• Media Message - 1973 -
• Canadian Journal of Educational Communication 1983 - 2001
• Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology 2001 - ??
The Publication Lens
• AVCR - 1952-1977
• Educational Communication and Technology (ECTJ) - 1978 - 1992
• Journal of Instructional Development 1978-1992
• Educational Technology Research & Development 1992 - ??
The Publication Lens
• Film - 1940s
• Television - 1950s
• Programmed instruction - 1960s
• Systematic instructional design - 1970s
• Computers - 1980s
• The Internet - 1990s
• Social networks & Web 2.0 - 2000s
The Panacea Lens
The Social Lens
• Objectivism
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism
• Connectivism- Social learning
Individuals
Groups
The Theoretical Lens
Shifts in ET
ObjectivismCognitivis
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Social Learning
ConstructivismConnectivis
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Shifts in ET
ObjectivismCognitivis
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Connectivism
Constructivism
Individual growth
Group growth
The National Lens
Partners/Collaborators
George SiemensUniversity of Manitoba Sylvia Currie
BCcampus Online
YOU
But what can you do• Any of you can contribute something to the site
• Identify & gather innovative content.
– Artifacts? Stories?
– Video interviews with key people in the field?
– Examples of classroom media and hardware?
– Virtual tours of historical sites?
• You might interview someone to gather stories and artifacts of historical significance
• You might prepare summaries of the interviews and add your contact's contributions to the museum site
• Join us for the launch of the Museum in April
Questions (examples)
• Describe important contributors and contributions to ET.
• Who was influential in the growth of ET, and why?
• Any stories from your own experience that inform the history of our field of study?
• What can we learn from our past?
• What issues in educational technology do we face?
• What locations are significant to ET and why?
• What artefacts or documents are important to us, and why?