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Page 1: Computers and Education: Past, Present, Future Eric Goolish.

Computers and Education: Past, Present, Future

Eric Goolish

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Computers, Networks and Education

• Representations of ideas have replaced the ideas themselves

• Students are taught superficially about great discoveries instead of being helped to learn deeply for themselves

• Carriers vs. Contents– Should schoolchildren take computer?

By Alan Kay

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Computers, Networks and Education

• Misconceptions of learning– Fluid Theory: Students are empty vessels that

must be given knowledge drop by drop from the full teacher-vessel

– Humans have to make do with nature’s mental bricks. Reality is solely what the senses reveal

– Education should not be difficult

By Alan Kay

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Computers, Networks and Education

• Technology– Forces us to choose between quality and

convenience– Instant communication leads to fragmentation

By Alan Kay

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Computers, Networks and Education

• Apple Vivarium Project & Life Lab Schools– Conclusions

• Children found that the simulation capability of their computers helped them examine the merits of many different walkway designs

• Children can make dynamic models of animal behavior through simulations

By Alan Kay

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Computers, Networks and Education

• Computers allow greater interactivity

• Computers have the ability to become any and all existing media (i.e. books, musical instruments, movies, ect)

• Information can be presented from many different perspectives

• Computers will be a universal library

By Alan Kay

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (1) How can schools afford to purchase enough multimedia-capable, Internet-connected computers so that a classroom machine is always available for every two to three students?

By Chris Dede

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Can schools afford enough Internet connected computers?

• Yes?– Volunteer time– Donations– Companies lower cost

for massive educational purchases

– States are setting aside money for the necessary infrastructure improvements

• No?– $94B initial investment– $28B per year for

ongoing costs– Buildings are falling

apart, money is needed for infrastructure improvements

– Professional development is expensive

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (2) How can schools afford enough computers and telecommunications to sustain new models of teaching and learning?

By Chris Dede

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Can schools afford new models of teaching and learning?

• Yes?– Resources can come

from reallocating existing budgets

– Reduce the need for textbooks and other instructional materials

– Reduce staff involved in data entry operations

• No?

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (3) How can many educators disinterested or phobic about computers and communications be induced to adopt new technology-based models of teaching and learning?

By Chris Dede

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Can educators be induced to adopt new technology-based models?

• Yes?– Bottom Up– Middle Out– Top Down

• No?– Teachers are alienated

to reform because the straightjacket of traditional instruction

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (4) How do we prove to communities that new, technology-based models of teaching and learning are better than current instructional approaches?

By Chris Dede

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Can we convince communities that technology enhances learning?

• Yes?– Increased learner

motivation– Advanced topics

mastered– Students act as

experts do– Students receive

better outcomes on standardized tests

• No?– Adults are skeptical

about new educational practices

– Increased achievement on standardized tests does not occur immediately

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (5) How can educational technology increase equity rather than widen current gaps between “haves” and “have-nots?”

By Chris Dede

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Can educational technology increase equity?

• Yes?– Information technology

makes society more egalitarian as media matures

– Extra efforts are made to provide resources for disadvantaged and at-risk populations

• No?– Technology does not

motivate disadvantaged populations

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Six Challenges for Educational Technology

• (6) If we use technology well, what should we expect as ‘typical’ student performance?

By Chris Dede

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What should we expect as ‘typical’ student performance?

• Research on new strategies for learning through sophisticated technology suggests that ‘typical’ students might do as well as ‘exemplary’ learners do now

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Growing Up Digital

• Worldwide Web can become a transformative medium for social progress

• Web is two-way media – Push and Pull

• Web honors multiple intelligences

• Web leverages the small efforts of the many with the large efforts of the few

By John Brown

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Growing Up Digital

• Digital Learners– Kids today are always multiprocessing– The short attention spans of today’s kids may

turn out to be productive in future work worlds– Literacy of tomorrow entails being able to

navigate– Web facilitates discovery based learning– Today’s kids problem solve on the web

By John Brown

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Growing Up Digital

• Creating knowledge– Learning to learn happens most naturally

when individuals are situated in a community of practice

– Powerful learning occurs when both cognitive and social dimensions are considered

By John Brown

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Final Thoughts…

• Where do you see technology and education in 5, 10, 15 years?

• Will every 2-3 students ever have personal internet access in schools?

• Will technology-based reform ‘catch on’ as an effective teaching practice?