Response to criticisms

Response to criticismsEME 5054 FOUNDATIONS OF ED TECHREBECCA PLEASANT

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The seven basic criticisms:

Teachers are not given the training, time and incentives to utilize technology effectively in the classroom.Computers cannot replace the social interactions necessary for healthy child development.Computers cannot replace the three dimensional interactions and sensations that are required for healthy child development.Computers do not offer real life problem solving, critical thinking and creativity skills necessary in life and work.Putting a quality face-to-face class curriculum on-line doesnt necessarily create a quality on-line class.No good evidence exists that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs music, art, physical education that enrich childrens lives to make room for this dubious nostrum. Ironically, a half-dozen preliminary studies recently suggested that music and art classes may build the physical size of a childs brain.Many of the studies surrounding educational technology lack the necessary scientific controls and validity.

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Instructional Technology: Looking Backward, Thinking ForwardA brief (and incomplete) snapshot of the past 100+ years of educational technology .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwEIi22Dv8&feature=fvw

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CRITICISM # 1Teachers are not given the training, time and incentives to utilize technology effectively in the classroom.

Continue what they have always doneNo incentivesFear AccountabilityUnion impactBlocking CompetitionBaggage

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Helping Teachers to Use Technology in the Classroom

Ronn Waters talks about helping teachers to use technology in the classroom .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVtvSTfI8WM&feature=related

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Google Teacher AcademyThe Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region. http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html

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Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Learning to Change Changing to Learn Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk&feature=PlayList&p=87F4A14DF67A81FB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

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Do you Teach or Do you Educate?

"Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame." - Socrates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fJKvdjQgs&NR=1

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CRITICISM # 2Computers cannot replace the social interactions necessary for healthy child development.

Worldwide communicationMultiple perspectivesDiversity of viewsSocial normsNegotiating

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The Twitter Experiement Univ of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8

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Grown Up Digital: Meet the Net GenerationDon Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital: Meet the Net Generation In his book Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott argues that Mark Bauerlein author of The Dumbest Generation and other short-sighted cynics have failed to see the distinctive and profound gifts the current generation has to offer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXrnUSdT78&NR=1

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Shifting Ideas of Collaborative Work: Does Technology Impede or Bridge Collaboration?

This project consisted of observing a classroom's use of technology and how that technology fit into the classroom dynamic. Students were asked to share laptops and collaboratively work on writing assignmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNajkByrqBs

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CRITICISM # 3Computers cannot replace the three dimensional interactions and sensations that a required for healthy child development.

Content qualityCurriculum integrationEase of accessTotal immersion

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Mixed Reality Learning Media: effects in classroom education

With problems regarding the Thai education system, Larngear Technology aims to solve it with our Mixed Reality Learning Media, a new instructional aid and teaching tools for teachers. It is demonstrated with a chemistry class utilizing 3 D molecules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2ek8N0VlY

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No Future Left Behind

This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.grownupdigi... When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vMnHo&feature=PlayList&p=87F4A14DF67A81FB&index=16

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Remote Response System Brings Technology into the Classroom

Few psychology students fall asleep in class -- that is, when they study sleep cycles, dreaming and sleep deprivation using a radio frequency audience response system. With remote control units, "c... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQRHzB-Qwc

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Evolution of Technology and TeachingAdvances in technology have powered paradigmatic shifts in education (Frick, 1991)...the video from the award winning authors of Fluency in Distance Learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suWzpLmRH0g&feature=related

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CRITICISM # 4Computers do not offer real life problem solving, critical thinking and creativity skills necessary in life and work.

Autonomous problem-solversTeamworkCollaborationRisk takingProblem-solvers

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Why We Need To Teach Technology in School

This video describes why I believe technology is so important in our schools. Technology prepares students for lives in the future. It also engages students http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VnHdqpE4RM&feature=related

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The Evolution of Technology and the Human Race

A look at the advancement and evolution of technology and the human race. Utilizing technology allows students to do advanced critical thinking and learn the skills necessary to keep up with technology and the human race.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSzqm5Whwc&feature=fvw

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CRITICISM # 5Putting a quality face-to-face class curriculum on-line doesnt necessarily create a quality on-line class.

LearnerEnvironmentCompetencyCapacityConnectionsAccountabilityTechnology first/education later

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Face-to-face vs. online training

Bill and Hillary discuss a few considerations for designing workplace training. Video created with xtranormal technology for the Trends in Training class at the University of Texas at Tyler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYTIXMlKNs

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CRITICISM # 6No good evidence exists that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs music, art, physical education that enrich childrens lives to make room for this dubious nostrum. Ironically, a half-dozen preliminary studies recently suggested that music and art classes may build the physical size of a childs brain.

Decrease faculty numbersIncrease faculty salary/retention/recruitment

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Music and Technology

Music Technologyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7aWjdSDU_MA combination of music and cutting-edge technology lies at the heart of two research projects undertaken in the South West of England. At the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, research students have b...

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Art and TechnologyCreativity Express - Children's Animated Art Education Creativity Express curriculum is an innovative combination of technology and art resulting in a revolutionary approach to teaching art history, art appreciation, and digital art. The program owes i..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZpxUuZjMQ

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CRITICISM # 7Many of the studies surrounding educational technology lack the necessary scientific controls and validity.

Human variablesTeacher biasStudent and faculty perceptionsTeacher qualitySocial revolution

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The Viral Education ProjectThe viral education project (vir-ed) is a media research project looking at how we can adopt creative dissemination strategies from web 2.0 philosophy to engage people in higher education and learning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8LTMf_c8Q

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Traditional TeachingTraditional teaching Ferris Buehler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVtvSTfI8WM&feature=related

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Technology Enhanced Active Learning Strategies

Online collaborative interactive white boards can be an effective tool to promote active learning in the classroom.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W9F7fIo6bk

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eSN TechWatch: Educational Technology: What Works

Cheryl Lemke, head of the ed-tech research firm The Metiri Group, recently completed a comprehensive review of existing studies on technology's impact on learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMDpyaIl1KA

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REFERENCESCollins, A. & Halverson, R. (2009). Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America. New York, New York: Teachers College Press.Culp, K., Honey, M., & Mandinach, E. (2003). A Retrospective on Twenty Years of Education Technology Policy. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology.Jenking, H. e t.al. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.Moe, R. & Chubb, J. (2009), Liberating Learning: Technologies, Politics and the Future of American Education. San Francisco, CA:. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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REFERENCES (contd)Schacter, J. The Impact of Education Technology on Student Achievement: What the Most Current Research Has to Say. Milken on education technology. Retrieved from: Schlechty, P. (2009). Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools Into Learning Organizations. San Francisco, C:, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Swan, K., (2003). Learning Effectiveness: What the research tells us. J. Bourne & J.C. Moore. Elements of Quality Online Education, Practice and Direction. Needham, MA: Sloan Center for Online Education, 1-34.Wasman, H., Connell, M., & Gray, J. (2002). A Quantitative Synthesis of Recent Research on the Effects of Teaching and Learning with Technology on Student Outcomes. Naperville, Illinois: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

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