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An overviewof educational
technology
Dedicated to Mendell Sherman(my first professor in educational technology)
Why me?
•old guy syndrome
•know a lot of old dudes
•actually studied with some old dudes
•started out in the USA
•came to Canada early enough to witness much of its growth and transformation
Question 2:
•Who is the most influential NON-CANADIAN scholar in educational technology you can name?
“Theorists” in ETDavid Jonassen
Charles ReigeluthAndy Gibbons
Elizabeth BolingEtienne WengerDenys Hlynka
Stephen DownesGeorge Siemens
David WileyAlec Couros
Robert GagnéAlbert Bandura
Seymour PapertKaty Campbell
Marshall McLuhanAllan Paivio
Marcy DriscollM. David Merrill
John Seely Brown
Common misunderstandings•ET is a new discipline
•Media comparisons
•Data=knowledge=understanding=wisdom
•Computers can replace teachers
•ET = computers + internet + schools
•North Americans invented ET
Panaceas for schools•Film - 1940s
•Television - 1950s
•Programmed instruction - 1960s
•Systematic instructional design - 1970s
•Computers - 1980s
•The Internet - 1990s
•Online learning - 2000s
•Social networks & PLN - 2010s
Movement-not technology but epistemology
• Objectivism
•Cognitivism
•Constructivism
•Connectivism - Social learning
Individuals
Groups
Key Insights•Unconscious mind doing the work
•Emotions at the centre of thinking
•We are social animals, not rational animals
•We are interpenetrated in relationships
Canadian Network for Innovation in Education - 2007
AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s
CAVA - 1961
EMAC-1968
DAVI - 1958
ETRAC - 1968
Some big lessons• Humility – we stand on shoulders
• be grateful for the new
• appreciate the old
• more is not necessarily better
• faster is not necessarily more efficient
• care about design & take the time to do it right
• Humility – we stand on shoulders
• be grateful for the new
• appreciate the old
• more is not necessarily better
• faster is not necessarily more efficient
• care about design & take the time to do it right
Photo credits
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Old_Man.jpg
• Nevit Dilmen http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heart-beat.gif
• Todfox http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eeyoresdrumcircle.jpg