Technology and Humanity: Finding Points of Harmony in Teaching and Learning
George SiemensNovember 12, 2010
What is at play here? What are the assumptions being made?
Source: Jon Dron, 2010: Learning Services Conference Presentation
Source: Jon Dron, 2010: Learning Services Conference Presentation
What does technology do well?
Technology: hard/structured/inflexible
Extends humanity physically
“Bicycle for the mind” (SteveJobs)
Sameness (reproducibility)
Scalability
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html
Standardizes
Systematizes
Extract patterns form large-scale data
Breakups (via status changes)
Shifts control (democratizes & solidifies power)
Source: Jon Dron, 2010: Learning Services Conference Presentation
Removes barriers
Creates Barriers
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Skills
Mindsets
What do people (social/soft systems) do well?
Social systems: flexible/adaptive/self-organizing/
Trust, belonging
Fluidity
Serendipity
Incorporating technology into learning process requires harmonization of attributes of soft/social systems with those of technological/structured systems
Content
Can it be recorded? Repurposed?
Change focus of class time: information interaction, not information provision
Why is this important?
Control is valuable at certain stages and for certain tasks
Flexibility increases prospect of random connections that lead to innovation
Social systems
Permit flow, randomness, self-organization
Learning analytics
Learner digital identityProfileData trail
Interaction patterns
Mobiles
Physical world data
LMS/PLE/eportfolioSocial network sites
Activity Streams
Role & skills of the educator
TechnicalExperimentationAutonomyCreationPlayCapacity for complexity
Structure of classrooms
Global, open?
Open teaching & learning
2008, 2009,
(soon) 2011
Data trails
Explicitation of thoughts/our lives
:: signaling what we are going to do in the future
Future analysis
Connectivism & Connective Knowledge 2008Moodle Forum Analysis
Week
But this also applies to systems
Standardized of instruction
Complexity & adaptivity
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