Education, Technology, Globalization & Our Ivory Towers<Zen of Teaching> <Antonio Vantaggiato</> Universidad del Sagrado Corazón

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Virtual Educa 2015 // #ve2015

zenofteaching.us

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Universidad del Sagrado Corazón

stemmed.sagrado.edu

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Photo CC-licensed by Alejandro CastroPyro-Chaos's

Espectáculo del Nodo de Ranvier, Glorieta de la MinervaGuadalajara, Jalisco, México

The Web

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Fundamental pedagogic environment (Suter 2005)

From NMC’s Horizon Project 10-year Anniversary Retreat, Austin, January 2012

Quality?

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No learning?“Your So-Called Education”, The New York Times May 14, 2011; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15arum.html?_r=3

Arum & Roska:

45% of students showed “no significant improvement” over one year of study (freshmen in fall 2005 through spring 2007). 36% after 4 years of college “education”.

“American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students.”

The Myths / Knowledge6

Teaching = Content Delivery

Content

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Produced / Packaged / Distributed / Deliveredhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/evadedave/ CC-Licensed Photo by D.K.

Myth Zero

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Learning Happens in the Classroom (we deliver instruction!)

Photo CC-Licensed by Erik Mallinson https://www.flickr.com/photos/chromatic/

Lecture / Lección

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c. 1350

Enseñar

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un cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun curso

Dictar

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un curso

...Students “sit” through a semester worth of lectures, while “distance” students “watch” online.

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Live vs. Distance Learning: Measuring the DifferencesFrom The New York Times, November 5, 2010 / http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05collegeside.html?_r=1

Myth Zero.1

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Learning Happens

Myth Zero.2

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... Without studying (or action)

And no responsibility!! [Upon the student]

The Student: Namely, she who studies!!!

Learning...

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Chaos & Confusion / Autonomy /Learner in Control / Openness (Siemens)

Learning Networks, not Teaching Machines

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Villemard, 1910 – Chromolithographie Paris, BNF, Estampes / Thanks to Audrey Watters: http://hackeducation.com/2015/06/10/eden2015/

Lecture18

May 5, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic, Closer Than We Think, http://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/24/the-push-button-school-of-tomorrow-1958.html

Class of the future19

1999 A.D. Learning

If knowledge is like this…20

http://www.philosophyforlife.org/the-kevin-bacon-history-of-philosophy/

why “deliver" it like this?

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Learner is not the center22

Audrey Watters

In an LMS, students are not in control of their content, their data, their connections. …the course is behind a wall. Everything is meant to take place therein. At the end of the course, the student loses access to the course, and to any of the content or data they’ve created.

There is one instructor. Maybe two. Maybe some course assistants. They grade. They monitor the forums.

The instructors are the center. The content is the center.

The learner is not the center.

The Web, of course, does not work this way.

http://hackeducation.com/2014/09/05/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university/the-lms-newcastle-university/

MOOC

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“What we found was that in a MOOC, instead of the classroom being the center, it becomes just one node of the network of social interactions."

--G. Siemens

Five Arguments Against the LMS

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Jim Groom, Brian Lamb, EDUCAUSE Review, 49,3; May/June 2014.

http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/extras/2014/ReclaimingInnovation/default.html

Why Blogging is Key

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to the future of Higher Ed (Gardner Campbell)

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Let's shutter our "learning management systems" and build "understanding augmentation networks" instead, moving away from educational assembly lines toward intellectual ecosystems of interest and curiosity. --Gardner Campbell

Myth

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The Shallows / Don’t Need Internet…

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As quoted by Clay Shirky in his rebuttal article Does the Internet Make You Smarter?; The Wall Street Jornal, June 4, 2010; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information.--Edgar Allan Poe

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no measure of limit to this fever for writing.--Martin Luther

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Myth

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Death of …

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Death of the Book

Ceci tuera cela The book will kill the cathedral / images will kill the alphabet.

Myth

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Teachers: Can We Be Replaced By Machines?

Arthur C. Clarke

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If a teacher can be replaced by a machine, they should be.

Myth

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Technology

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDSj62tlvQ

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37Jim Groom: Mother Trucking Zombies, Bavatuesdays 7 Nov. 2008; http://bavatuesdays.com/mother-trucking-zombies/

Myths

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Styles of Learning, Multitasking

Globalization?

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Way out, not in

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info.cern.ch

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30 April 1993: public domain42

Text

Global?Really :-)

But, is the world allowed into the classroom?

Don’t Lock Educational Production Within A Classroom’s Berlin Wall

Classroom Is The World…

Photo: Some rights reserved by gavinandrewstewart (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinandrewstewart/)

Free exchange of ideas and educational production among students, faculty and the outside world.

Open

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Open Ethos

Open Ed Resources

Open Journals

Some Rights Reserved (cc)

Open class?

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http://bit.ly/flickd15/

Photo: Some rights reserved by Tim Ellis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_ellis/)

LMS

Harry Potter Wordwide Movement

fanfiction.com / fanfiction.net Communities / Discussion forums / stories /

podcastsPhoto: Some rights reserved by John Pasden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/)

World of Warcraft’s

Knowledge Ecology

Open Environment

Crowdsourced Manuals,

Tutorials, Help

Image: some rights reserved / cc Juan Pablo Olmo - Flickr

What Now?

Open portals52

inf103.com

inf115.com53

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http://ds106.us

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Digital Storytelling & syndication bus

The end.

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