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April 14, 2011
Instructional Technology
No longer a question of should!
Adebayo Owolewa
What is Instructional
Technology
Educational [Instructional] technology is a complex
and integrated process, involving people, procedures,
ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing
problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and
managing solutions to those problems, involved in all
aspects of human learning.
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology
Thinking Assignment
WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPTION OF TECHNOLOGY?
The Concept of Technology
Fields of Engineering
Engineers, technologists and technicians are closely
related in their views of technology as the process of
material construction based on systematic engineering
knowledge of how to design artifacts,
Technology?
The Concept of Technology
Social Science Scholars
Social Science Scholars typically view technology in
broader terms, extending what is understood of
material construction to take social significance into
consideration. First, social science scholars’
employment of the term “technology” refers to material
construction uses as well as the intellectual and social
contexts. It refers to the organization of knowledge for
the achievement of practical purposes as well as any
tool or technique of doing or making, by which
capability is extended.
What is Instructional
Technology
Educational [Instructional] technology is a complex
and integrated process, involving people, procedures,
ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing
problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and
managing solutions to those problems, involved in all
aspects of human learning.
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology
Technology!
Web 1.0
The term "Web 1.0" is commonly associated with the
state of the world wide web pre-2001. The time was
characterized the one-way flow of information,
websites with “read-only” material and slow and dialup computer speeds. Compared to today’s standards,
computer literacy was low.
The Machine is Us/ing Us
“Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes”, explained by the Digital
Ethnography Project at Kansas State University (Wesch). The
video helps to illustrate important changes brought by Web 2.0
(read/write web, social web) as content and form became
separated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Web 2.0
The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web
applications which facilitate web-based
interactive
information
sharing
• the four primary information sharing design patterns
are sharing information one-to-one, one-to-many,
many-to-many, and many-to-one.
interoperability
• Being able to accomplish end-user applications using
different types of computer systems, operating
systems, and application software, interconnected by
different types of local and wide area networks
user-centered
design
• a philosophy that tries to optimize the user interface
around how people can, want, or need to work, rather
than forcing the users to change how they work to
accommodate the software developers approach.
collaboration
• a process where two or more people or organizations
work together in an intersection of common goals by
sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.
Web 2.0 Technologies
Web Applications – application
accessed via web browser
Social Networking Sites – online
community of people w/ shared
interests
• Wiki – is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation
and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages within the browser.
• Google Docs, Google Earth, Google Scholar, Google Notebook
• FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter
Video Sharing Website – allows
individuals to upload video clips to an
Internet website
• YouTube, Flickr
Folksonomy - a system of
classification derived from the practice
and method of collaboratively creating
and managing tags to annotate and
categorize content
• Delicious, diigo (social bookmarking)
Web 2.0 Technologies
Blogs
Podcast
• a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with
regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or
other material such as graphics or video
• a podcast is a pre-recorded audio program that's posted to a
website and is made available for download so people can
listen to them on personal computers or mobile device
RSS
• "Really Simple Syndication" is a family of web feed formats
used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog
entries, news headlines, audio and video
Mashup
• a web page or application that combines data or
functionality from two or more external sources to create a
new service
OpenSource
• an approach to the design, development, and distribution of
software, offering practical accessibility to a software’s
source code
Thinking Assignment
HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IT IS FOR STUDENTS
TO USE TECHNOLOGY?
Why Important?
Meet State
Technology
Standards
Learn skills of
collaboration
Accesses multiple
intelligences
Prepares students
for living in a
global economy
Gain technical
expertise with
different
technologies
Allows interactions
with other people
in different socioeconomic and
geographical
communities
Why Important?
Aid students on
IEP
Students have
access to
knowledge on their
own time-table /
Digital Natives
Could reduce
costs for school
and districts
Is fun
Close the
Achievement Gap
Learn how to
access and
critique online
resources
A Brave New World-Wide-Web
An excellent video by David Truss highlighting his journey to
become a connected teacher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPQ4Qr8xks
My Experiences
Trial of Brutus – Podcast
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Online research of the late Republic
Social bookmark resource on delicious.com
Co-wrote description on Google Docs
Created podcast and put it on Latinwiki
Student Senate Wiki
• Repository, aggregator and disseminator of information
Latin Wiki
• Repository, aggregator and disseminator of information
The Networked Student
This video by Wendy Drexler describes an emerging learning
environment for the connected student. It depicts an actual
project completed by her high school students and provides
a tangible example of a well-connected learner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
What Teachers Need
Administrative
Support
Professional
Development
Technological
Resources
On-staff
Expert or
Consultant
Administrator’s Perspective
Financial
Constraint
s
Prepare
Students
for the
Future
Questions
&
Discussion
Resources
1) Schrum, L. & Solomon, G. (2007). “Web 2.0. New tools, new schools.”
Washington DC: ISTE.
2) King, K. & Gura, M. (2007). “Podcasting for Teachers. Using a new technology
to revolutionize teaching and learning.” Charlotte, NC: IAP
3) Alexander, B. (2006). “Web 2.0. A new wave of innovation for teaching and
learning?” Educause 41(2), 33-44.
4) Wesh. “The Machine is Us/ing Us.” Online video. Digital Ethnography Project at
Kansas State University. Accessed on 24 October 2009.
<http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g>.
5) Drexler, Wendy. “The Networked Student.” Online video. Accessed on 24
October 2009.
<http:// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA>.
6) Truss, David. “A Brave New World-Wide-Web.” Online video. Accessed on 24
October 2009.
<http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPQ4Qr8xks>.
7) Kumar, Swapna. Personal Interview. 12 October 2009.
8) Blute-Nelson, Meghan. Personal Interview. 14 October 2009.
9) Huang, Elsie. Personal Interview. 16 October 2009.
10) Web 2.0. Plagiarism. (21 October 2009). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Retrieved 23 October 9 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0.
11) Luppicini, Rocci. (2005). “A Systems Definition of Educational Technology in
Society.” Concordia Uniersity: Department of Education.