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Access

ConstellationsTechnology and Public

Education

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Context

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Cost of powerful, responsive computing declines

as access to digital devices increases.

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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born

~ Alan Kay ~

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students are using digital technologies more intuitively to share & collaborate

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Participatory Culture

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more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced.

(Lenhardt & Madden, 2005),

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low barriers to artisticexpression and civic

engagement

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strong support for creating and sharing creations with others

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informal mentorships -

what is known most experienced is passed

along to novices

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members feel that their contributions matter

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Affiliations: memberships, formal and informal, in online communities.

Expressions: new creative forms, mashups , sampling, fan videos, fan fiction writing, photologs

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Collaborative Problem-solving — formal and informal work in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (Wikipedia, MMORPG).

Circulations — Shaping the flow of media (podcasting, blogging).

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Implications

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peer-to-peer learning,

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a changed attitude toward intellectual

property,

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skills valued in the modern workplace

an empowered conception of citizenship.

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Developments

1. Blended learning

2. Mobile learning

3.Open Educational Resources (OER)

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Blended Learning

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The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.

~ William Gibson ~

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Synchronous

Asynchronous

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Synchronous

Asynchronous

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Blended Learning

Exemplars

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http://moodle.sd54.bc.ca/

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Physics 12Mr. Nenzen

Charles Bloom SecondaryLumby, BC

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Blended LearningBenefits

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differentiated instruction

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pacing & time shifting

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supporting new literacies

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learning as a process

not individual learning events

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Integration of Blended Learning &

Online Learning

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Mobile Learning

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“Cell phones should absolutely be banned from school….”

“They are nothing but a disruption to class instruction….”

“...simply not a necessity for being successful in school.”

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Video + Audio

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Open Educational Resources

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Collaboratively authored educational textbooks.

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adoption and procurement of school textbooks is complex

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Free =

lack of quality and seriousness?

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given sufficient critical mass

-quality issues and

licensing issues will be addressed

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mass collaboration with open peer review can result in high quality

content.

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the end of editions

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fluid resource ecosystems

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In the long run, it will be very difficult for proprietary textbook publishers to compete with freely licensed alternatives. An open project with dozens of professors adapting and refining a textbook on a particular subject will be a very difficult thing for a proprietary publisher to compete with. The point is: there are a huge number of people who are qualified to write these resources, and we now have tools to leave them to do that.

~ Lawrence Lessig ~

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Policy Consideration

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Access

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Multiple entry points for courses

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Differentiated instruction

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Rethinking ‘the school year’

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Quality

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Open resources for peer based or expert quality review.

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Textbooks

Travel

Timelines

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Costs per student

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