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Yksityinen kielitoimisto Technology Center Hermia [email protected] Tampere Finland

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SITE = Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education

-19th International Conference

- presenters from 65 countries

- March 3–7, 2008

- Riviera Convention Center,

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Blanche O’Bannon, The University of Tennessee

Web 2.0 Tools- Support constructivist strategies

- Ever-increasing collection of tools that publish, manage information and share content

- Open-source software solutions

- Include blogs, podcasts and wikis

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Using Wikis for Collaboration in Creating a Collection

- 92 pre-service teachers

- Benefits: collaborating with peers, resource collection, the ease of use, 24/7 accessibility

- Problems: the loose structure of the assignment, the instructions were ambigious

- Would change: clearer instructions, a structured timeline

- Careful attention should be given during the instructional period to make sure that all students are comfortable with the software.

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The Growth, Death and Rebirth of the WikiDavid A Slykhuis & Barbara S. Stern, James Madison University

- 45 pre-service teachers, over 100 lesson plans, 20 - 25 downloads

- Shared resources, critical mass

- To improve: upload different file types

- Was spammed to death and rebuilt

- Students are using the wiki and it is continuing to grow

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Wiki as a professional development tool

Brian Foley & Tae Chang, Cal State Northridge

- Benefits: collaboration, rich and open database

- Problems: motivation, lack of discussion

- Specialist are not willing to edit colleague’s texts

- Knowledge database that goes beyond the class

- A more authentic wikipedia

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Utilizing wiki to construct knowledgeMichael Blocher, Northern Arizona University

- Collaborative writing process- Team edited paper - Roles: lead editor, author outline, first draft), designer- Peer evaluation - Team evaluation report- Learning communities


Dr. Ronald McBride

Northwestern State University of Lousiana

When Online Learning is Truly Online

Should online programs be designed to include blended instruction as some research suggest? What resulted from a true online design without blended instruction?

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Results

• It raised the quality of all support services to students, faculty and staff on campus.

• It provided electronic access to the University libraries for faculty to the desktop.

• It provided a Web-based system for faculty to enter grades, attendance and access to student records.

• It reduced the time on task for advising, laboratory work, assisting students with portfolios, and support services requiring faculty time because they were not previously automated.

There is no definitive evidence of improved quality of instruction and better performance by students using blended instruction.

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Norm Vaughan, Ph.D., Mount Royal College, CalgarySurface versus deep approaches to learning

Norm Vaughan, Ph.D.Department of Education & Schooling

Faculty of Teaching & Learning

Mount Royal CollegeCalgary, Alberta

Surface Deep

Definitions Accepting new facts and ideas uncritically and attempting to store them as isolated unconnected, items

Examining new facts and ideas critically, and tying them into existing cognitive structures and making numerous links between ideas

Motives •External motivation

•Intention to complete only the task requirements

•Internal motivation

•Intention to understand the material completely - develop competence

Strategies •Focus on the “signs” or external pieces of information

•Use of rote memorization

•Principal of minimalism – little integration, synthesis

•Focus on what the material means and how it may be applied

•Linking to past knowledge and everyday experience to learn material

•Integration, synthesis of knowledge

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Wikis – student identified advantages (n = 46)

Facilitated “virtual” group work - increased communication, access and flexibility (17 comments)

Good organizational tool for synthesizing ideas and group reflection (10 comments)

Public nature of the summary - easy for everyone to view and make responses (9 comments)

Wikis – student identified disadvantages

No disadvantages (17 comments)

Group communication and motivation issues (7 comments)

Technical issues (5 comments)


Punya Mishra, Michigan State University

Thinking Creatively: Teachers as Designers of Technology, Pedagogy and Content

Technology

Content

Pedagogy


There are no walls between content, pedagogy and technology, if we are ready to play with knowledge.

Wicked problems need creative solutions.

Teaching with technology has been called a wicked problem, because they defy standard problem solving approaches.

Pedagogy + content + technology = mashups

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Our students have CHANGED RADICALLY

- educational system is not up-to-date

Teaching & Learning 2.0 is architecture of participation:- Wikis- Blogs- Podcasts- Google Earth- Social photo sharing and bookmarking

-Virtual group work, public nature of outcomes, building on others work

Building more powerful ways to cooperate, communicate, and collaborate

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