Old Brains, New Technologies Scott Moss, Associate Faculty Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Assistant Professor Pinky and the Brain
Old Brains, New Technologies
Scott Moss, Associate FacultyCynthia Sistek-Chandler, Assistant Professor
Pinky and the Brain
What used to work doesn't work anymore.
External stimuliAuthentic tasks and assessmentsCredibilityInterdisciplinary work (Gee, 2010)More collaborative work (Gee, 2010)
What works now? Field of Cognitive ScienceConnections to the brain (Brain-Based
Learning)Thiagi (NU Best Practices)Engagement and Motivation (Authentic)“Wisdom of Crowds” (Rheingold, Davidson, et
al., 2009)“People expect to be able to work, learn, and
study whenever and wherever they want to.” (Horizon Report, 2010).
Evolutionary Psychology
A way of thinking about thinking.
Prezi on EvPsychAnother way of
understanding motivation and behavior.
Google Reference: http://mudrac.ffzg.hr/
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Evolutionary PsychologyLearning
Cooperation Motivation
Old Brain Connection:Why must I attend to that beeping?
Triune Brain
Flow Theory (Csikszentmihalyi,1990)
Flow
Evolution of the WebWeb 1.0 Read only/emailWeb 2.0
FacebookYouTubeBlogger
Web 3.0 Horizon ReportGesturing Technologies
Web-Based Interactions & ChangeExpectations for immediacy and controlRSS Automatic updates (Push vs. Pull)Cloud ComputingPublic versus PrivateOnline identity
Sherry Turkle
Technology Changes LanguageIs Google Making Us Stupid?The Shallows (Nicholas Carr)
Losing the Depth and BreadthWriting Genre
Texting generationSMS Language Lexicon
Tweeting and Twitter140 characters
Nick Carr says:“As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan
pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
Online Collaborative EnvironmentsWhy do they work?
Blooms’s Taxonomy 2.0
Modern Examples of CollaborationMultipoint online collaborationAccountability Management System (AMS/Taskstream)Google DocsWikis and Wikispaces (What does Wiki mean in
Hawaiian?)VoicethreadsRealtime collaboration
Screen, application, ideasAdobe ConnectElluminate (Class Live Pro)
Doodle (Meeting Planning)Common Calendar ProgramsSemantic Web
Conclusion