An overviewof educational

technology

Dedicated to Mendell Sherman(my first professor in educational technology)

Why bother?

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 1:

•What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?

MPATI

Question 2:

•Who is the most influential NON-CANADIAN scholar in educational technology you can name?

Name a technology

Quiz

C GD E F

H I J K L

M N O P Q

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“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

3 old guys who got it right

Johan Amos Comenius

I Moravia

Edgar Dale

Symbolic

Iconic

Enactive

Jerome Bruner

Sam Postlethwaite

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

A Turning Point: social agency

Movement-not technology but epistemology

• Objectivism

•Cognitivism

•Constructivism

•Connectivism - Social learning

Individuals

Groups

Shifts in ET

Shifts in ET

Objectivism Cognitivis

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Connectivism

Constructivism

Shifts in ET

Objectivism Cognitivis

m

Connectivism

Constructivism

Individual growth

Group growth

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The Social Animal•David Brooks – TED 2011

New Humanism

Rational cognition insufficient

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

Skills of Enlightenment

Distinctly Canadian

What is CNIE?

Canadian Network for Innovation in Education - 2007

AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s

CAVA - 1961

EMAC-1968

DAVI - 1958

ETRAC - 1968

Future Forecast

Cloudy with a chance of change

Future Forecast

The old shall be new once again

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