Welcome to EDIM 501 Live! : Welcome to EDIM 501 Live! We’ll begin at
8:00 pm Eastern Time
Monday, Oct. 26
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Open chat before and after class. On-topic during class.
Agenda : Agenda Welcome & Overview
Housekeeping
Course Big Ideas
Next week’s VoiceThread
Course Paper
What Should You Be Learning … : What Should You Be Learning … … about Cognition and Technology?
Background: How the Brain works
Insight: Brain strength/weakness
Cognition: How we think & learn
Pedagogy: Best practices
Technology: Applications
Who Are You? : Who Are You? You are:
Educational Leaders who
Embrace Innovation and are
Attuned to changes in worldour kids will live in.
Cognition: Brain, Mind : Cognition: Brain, Mind The most complex objectin the known universe.
Relate to learning, teaching
Teaching/learning with technology
No simple answers … … but LOTS of questions!
A 3-credit Grad CourseNormally Requires … : A 3-credit Grad CourseNormally Requires … 45 contact hours in class, and
45-90 hours outside of class for homework and projects
And is spread over 14 weeks
Documents You Have Seen? : Documents You Have Seen? Welcome Message (context)
Syllabus (not instead of Unit topics)
Writing and other rubrics
Assignment Directions
Point values
Description of Course Paper
Housekeeping : Housekeeping face shot photo (communication)
references (academic future, writing … the science of education)
Pink, readings, viewings (lots of ‘em)
Discussions to:
Demonstrate familiarity, understanding
Apply course ideas (examples)
Build community of learners
Discussion Postings & Comments : Discussion Postings & Comments Are you personally & academically engaged,
Used new vocabulary,
Researched an idea you encountered,
Mentioned ideas by author (why dis/agree?),
Have you added to discussion in your comments?
Extending
Personal example
Questioning
Added Web link, other reading or reference
Questions? : Questions?
Readings, Viewings So Far : Readings, Viewings So Far What are your impressions of readings in Norton Reader?
How about the academic talks?
How about the other short videos, etc.
We are multi-modal learners, predominantly visual (actually predominantly multimodal!)
Big Idea 1: : Big Idea 1: Importance of learning in global context:
Individual
Culture, society, economy
New 3 R’s: (Carol Ann Tomlinson, Gates)
Rigor
Relevance
Relationships
Big Idea 2: : Big Idea 2: We need WHOLE brain,NOT just right or left
High performance learning leverages natural or built-inways of learning
Big Idea 3: : Big Idea 3: Designed through imperfect process of evolution (curriculum unaware)
What does brain do WELL? … not well?
Langauge and math for example
Compare to other brains
Intelligent technology (AI)
Computer under construction to match complexity
20-25 yrs to reach human capabilities
Big Idea 4: : Big Idea 4: EVERY brain is different
Genetically
Developmentally
Experiences, memories, knowledge
There is no meaningful AVERAGE
(would you give all kids average shoe size?
Big Idea 5: : Big Idea 5: Emotion required in thinking and learning
Big Idea 6: : Big Idea 6: Subconscious processes are most powerful thinking and learning tools!
Big Idea 7: : Big Idea 7: Subconscious processes are most powerful thinking and learning tools!
Big Idea 8: : Big Idea 8: We are social learners.
Balance individual and social learning abilities (like left/right balance)
Questions? : Questions?
This Week’s Topic : This Week’s Topic You are a visual genius (no lie!)
VoiceThread : VoiceThread Have you used VoiceThread?
Create free account &upload face photo
Select focus photo/ppt & upload
(arrange photos in presentation order)(set auto advance)
Record your narration or video(microphone, telephone, webcam)
Slide 23 :
VoiceThread : VoiceThread When finished, post VoiceThread URL with a briefdescription (and your name)on Unit 3 wiki.
Don’t worry much about wiki formatting
Use wiki to log into VoiceThread posts to comment, extend, question.
VoiceThread Topics : VoiceThread Topics Emotion & social interaction’srole in learning
Language (natural learning)
Empathy (as a leader)
… and try to connect to education & technology that would use or develop the above abilities
Course Project : Course Project Select a “sense” (from Pink)
1. Relate cognitive science or neuroscience
2. Apply to technology in education
Questions? : Questions?
Parting Thought : Parting Thought We learn naturally by
examples
stories
analogies
Use where you can in discussions.