Transcript Teaching Teleapprenticeship

Technology as Media: The
Learner Centered Perspective
Jim Levin
College of Education
Chip Bruce
Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Why learn?
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Costs of learning
Benefits of learning
Costs of learning
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Learning consumes time and effort by
the learner, others, and society,
including both direct and opportunity
costs
Learning is disruptive for the learner,
the social group, and society
Benefits of learning
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Learning is an adaptive mechanism,
allowing organisms and groups of
organisms to adapt to change much
faster than through evolution.
What is learned?
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Expert-novice studies
Experts have multiple and coordinated
representations of the knowledge
domain
How to generate multiple
coordinated representations
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New interactive technologies allow us
to generate multiple and coordinated
presentations of knowledge
A taxonomy of uses of
technologies by learners
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Inquiry
Communication
Construction
Expression
A design activity
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Use the taxonomy to design an
environment for learning about what
teachers should know about
technology
Inquiry
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What uses of technology as a medium
for inquiry?
Communication
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What uses of technology as a medium
for communication?
Construction
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What uses of technology as a medium
for construction?
Expression
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What uses of technology as a medium
for expression?
Summary
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What have we learned about learning?
Contact information:
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Jim Levin [email protected]
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/j-levin
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Chip Bruce [email protected]
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/chip
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This paper: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/jimlevin/levin-bruce-aera.html