Intro 20120913

Venla VallivaaraLET – Learning and Educational Technology Research UnitUniversity of Oulu2012-09-13

Introduction to Learning and

Educational Technology(INTRO)


Today’s schedule:

Thursday 2012-09-13

08:15-09:45 KTK215

Course infoGetting to know each other

Venla Vallivaara

10:15-11:45 KTK215

Digital portfolio as a part of Educational Technology studies

Venla Vallivaara

12:30-14:00 (group 1)14:30-16:00 (group 2)KTK207

ICT Workshop: Starting the digital portfolios

Jari Laru

12:30-14:00 (group 2)14:00-16:30 (group 1)KTK215

Collaborative studying: ”Mapping” your prior knowledge on Learning and Educational Technology

Venla Vallivaara


Getting to know each other:

• Pick a card that mostly describes your feelings, expectations and goals for the educational technology studies now at the beginning of the INTRO –course…

Team up with the students that have the same card as you do. Introduce yourself to the other members of your team, tell them something about your background and explain, why did you pick this card…


Objective

• The goal of the course is to examine the role of educational technology as a part of the possibilities and demands of the learning society in different learning contexts.

• In this course, the students familiarize themselves with the theoretical background, core concepts, and practical applications of learning and educational technology.

• Students become acquainted with the different constituents of expertise, in connection with which they reflect upon their own expertise path in a digital portfolio.

• One central goal of this course is to learn to use and evaluate information and communications technology pedagogically.


Contents

• Significance of educational technology in a learning society• Basic concepts related to educational technology• Introduction to the study of learning and educational technology: objectives, research subjects and the theoretical framework• Expertise and reflecting upon one’s own expertise• Central ICT applications


Learning objectives

After this course the student can• describe the basic concepts of educational technology• name some of the central research topics in the field of

learning and educational technology• identify societal trends and strategic policies affecting

the research field of educational technology• describe the central characteristics of collaborative

expertise• use core utility software and information networks and

evaluate their pedagogical usability• plan and implement a digital portfolio in a blog

environment


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08:15-11:45KTK215Course Info

09:00-11:45KTK215Lectures

08:15-16:00KTK215Students’presentations

08:15-11:45KTK215 Lectures


GROUP 112:30-14:00KTK207ICT Workshop14:30-16:00KTK215Collaborative studying


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12:00-15:00 KTK215Collaborative studying

15:30-16:30KTK207ICT Workkshop

GROUP 212:30-14:00KTK215Collaborative studying14:30-16:00KTK207ICT Workshop





DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

Course structure


Working methods

• LecturesRoom KTK215

• ICT Workshops / Jari Laru Room KTK207

• Collaborative Studying / Venla VallivaaraRoom KTK215

• Portfolio Assignments 1-4

• All the slides and instructions can be found at: http://www.oulu.fi/let/node/12243

http://www.oulu.fi/let/node/12243




QUESTIONS

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08:15-16:00KTK215Students’presentations

08:15-11:45KTK215 Lectures









12:00-15:00 KTK215Collaborative studying

15:30-16:30KTK207ICT Workkshop






DIGITAL PORTFOLIO


Two groups for the afternoons:

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GROUP 1 STUDENTS: Lyana, Gary, Sasha, Antonella, Asta, Polina, Fedor, Ana, Julia, Erkkie, Päivi P-A, Petri, Jake


GROUP 2 STUDENTS: Marta, Suvi, Katri, Liping, Emilia, Miquel, Olli-Pekka,Joni, Fiza, Anna-Maaria, Hannes, Vera, Päivi E.


Course assessment

• Grading: 0-5

Based on Active participation on lectures, ICT Workshops

and collaborative studying Portfolio assignments 1-4 Digital portfolio as a whole (content, structure

and technological implementation)


Reading materials

• Sawyer, R, K. (2008). Optimising Learning: Implications of Learning Sciences Research.

http://www.oecd.org/site/educeri21st/40554221.pdf

• Dabbagh, N. & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751611000467

• Also other written sources should be used when needed in portfolio assingments







Blog as a

DIGITAL PORTFOLIOin Educational Technology

studies


Blogs in learning and teaching

SOCIAL MEDIA

LEARNING DIARY

FEEDS AND READERSMULTIMEDIA CONTENTS

SOCIAL INTERACTION

REPLACEMENT FOR A TRADITIONAL WEBPAGE?

SIMPLE AND FREE

PUBLICITY

STRUCTURED IN CERTAIN WAY

GROUP BLOGS

BLOGGERS’ NETWORKS

COMMENTS AND DISCUSSIONS

NEW WAYS OF EXPRESSING YOURSELF

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (PLE)


What is a portfolio?

• A collection of documents that have been chosen to demonstrate person’s expertise, skills, learning and development

• Portfolio is always personal and unique

• DIGITAL PORTFOLIO (e-portfolio) means a portfolio that contains digital documents and different kinds of media contents.

• Usually digital portfolios are published in the internet


Different types of portfolios

• Developmental (working) portfolio, which is a record of things that the owner has done over a period of time, and may be directly tied to learning outcomes.

• Reflective (learning) portfolio includes personal reflection on the content and what it means for the owner’s development.

• Representational (showcase) portfolio that shows the owner’s achievements in relation to particular work or developmental goals.

• When portfolio is used for job applications it can be called also a career portfolio.


How can you make your learning visible?


Digital portfolio in Educational Technology

studiesDevelopmental, reflective and representational• Contains:

– Learning assignments that are written as a text– Embedded or linked multimedia files that you have

produced during the studies– Reflective writings on what you have learned, thought

and discovered during your studies– Comments from and discussion with your peers,

tutors and teachers– Anything else you want to include to your portfolio as

a showcase of your learning and expertise Professional portfolio, career portfolio


Why Digital Portfolio?

• Helps you to learn by articulating your thoughts (and discussing them with others)

• Helps you to see the process of your learning, what you have learned and accomplished

• Helps the teachers and other students to see your thoughts, learning process and accomplishments

• Provides an easy way to do, ”return” and collect your learning assignments

• Shows the potential employers your achievements and expertise

• Provides a way to show the world who you are, helps you to create networks

• Provides a way for your relatives, friends and other interested people to see how you are doing and what you are thinking

• Helps all interested people to see, what our studies are about


What could be the main contents of your potfolio?

Who will be the main readers (target group) of your portfolio?

What are the main issues you want the reader to know about you?

Do you want to include other issues besides these studies?

– Hobbies, interests, happenings in your everyday life, professional contents, current issues in politics…?


Blog as a digital portfolio

• provides a simple and free platform, where you can share your thoughts, documents and media files in an well-structured and visually pleasing form without any specific programming or other technical special skills.

• enables an easy way to comment and discuss, refer to other blogs or sites and embed multimedia to your portfolio.

• can be totally public to all web users or some of the content may be protected with a password for only selected viewers to see.


Some basic features of a blog

• Posts• Pages• Comments• Embeddings• Hyperlinks• Categories• Tags • Archives• Widgets• Feeds


Examples of digital portfoliosin Educational Technology

Studies(in Finnish)

http://tuumyl.wordpress.com/

http://mianmonologi.wordpress.com/

http://opemedia.mobi/blog/









Digital portfolio as a course assignment in

INTRO-course• The portfolio will be evaluated by its contents

(portfolio assignments 1-4), structure, and technical implementation.

• The evaluation of the portfolio will also considerably affect the final grading of the course.

• Return/evaluation date 2012-12-07– portfolio assignments 1-4 have their own return dates

• The portfolio assignments given in other courses will be evaluated as a part of those courses.


How could you structure your blog?– What could be the main categories? – How about tags?– Should there be some ’permanent’

pages?

How about the visual look of your portfolio?


Questions?

Comments?After the lunch at 12:30

Group 1 will meet in room KTK207 with Jari

Group 2 will continue in this room with Venla

All the today’s materials can be found in:

oulu.fi/let/

slideshare.net/LEToulu

Please Note!

Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology

continues tomorrow at 09:00 in KTK215

with lecture by Prof. Sanna Järvelä


Introduction to Learning and Educational Technology Collaborative StudyingThursday 2012-09-13

EXPLORING AND MAPPING YOUR PRIOR KNOWLEDGEOF LEARNING AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY• Form a group of 3-4 students• Discuss:

– What comes to your mind when you think of learning and educational technology?

– What kind of things have you experienced, read, seen or heard?

– What could be the most important concepts in that field? – How could they relate to each other?

Create a concept map / mind map as a team• You can write or draw• Use different colors, fonts, shapes, arrows etc.• Do it in your own style :)

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