Virtual Museum of Educational Technology
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Virtual Museum of Educational Technology Project SCoPE session, October 1, 2008 Richard A. Schwier University of Saskatchewan
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This presentation by Richard Schwier launches the Virtual Museum of Educational Technology project.
Transcript of Virtual Museum of Educational Technology
Virtual Museum of Educational Technology Project
SCoPE session, October 1, 2008Richard A. SchwierUniversity of Saskatchewan
Purposes of the project
• To investigate the contemporary history of educational technology
• To populate a virtual museum of educational technology with interviews, artifacts, media and print documents.
Question 1:
• What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?
Question 2:
• Who is the most influential scholar in educational technology you can name?
Question 3
• What is an important event in the history of educational technology?
Historical Lenses
Photo credit: André Karwath, Wikimedia Commons
The People Lens
The People Lens
The People Lens
Wikipedia:Karl FischIan JukesJamie McKenzieScott McLeodAlan NovemberSeymour PapertWill RichardsonGary StagerJohn SwellerJoyce Kazman ValenzaDavid WarlickDavid Marcovitz
Rick’s additions:ComeniusJames FinnRobert GagnéKaty CampbellAlbert BanduraGeorge SiemensStephen DownesMarshall McLuhanAllan PaivioMarcy DriscollM. David MerrillLarry LessigDavid JonassenCharles ReigeluthAndy GibbonsElizabeth BurgeDenys Hlynka
Your additions:
“Thinkers” in ECT lens
The Organizational Lens
- 2007
AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s
CAVA - 1961
EMAC-1968
DAVI - 1958
ETRAC - 1968
• CAVA News - 1958
• Educational Media - 1969 - 1971
• Media Message - 1973 -
• Canadian Journal of Educational Communication 1983 - 2001
• Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology 2001 - ??
The Publication Lens
• AVCR - 1952-1977
• Educational Communication and Technology (ECTJ) - 1978 - 1992
• Journal of Instructional Development 1978-1992
• Educational Technology Research & Development 1992 - ??
The Publication Lens
• Film - 1940s
• Television - 1950s
• Programmed instruction - 1960s
• Systematic instructional design - 1970s
• Computers - 1980s
• The Internet - 1990s
• Social networks & Web 2.0 - 2000s
The Panacea Lens
The Social Lens
• Objectivism
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism
• Connectivism- Social learning
Individuals
Groups
The Theoretical Lens
Shifts in ET
ObjectivismCognitivis
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Social Learning
ConstructivismConnectivis
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Shifts in ET
ObjectivismCognitivis
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Connectivism
Constructivism
Individual growth
Group growth
The National Lens
Partners/Collaborators
George SiemensUniversity of Manitoba Sylvia Currie
BCcampus Online
YOU
But what can you do• Any of you can contribute something to the site
• Identify & gather innovative content.
– Artifacts? Stories?
– Video interviews with key people in the field?
– Examples of classroom media and hardware?
– Virtual tours of historical sites?
• You might interview someone to gather stories and artifacts of historical significance
• You might prepare summaries of the interviews and add your contact's contributions to the museum site
• Join us for the launch of the Museum in April
Questions (examples)
• Describe important contributors and contributions to ET.
• Who was influential in the growth of ET, and why?
• Any stories from your own experience that inform the history of our field of study?
• What can we learn from our past?
• What issues in educational technology do we face?
• What locations are significant to ET and why?
• What artefacts or documents are important to us, and why?
