University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education
24 October 1996
Educational Visions
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But first...
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Educational Visions
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How will people learn in the future? A range of visions
- Super high-tech classrooms
- Home telelearning
- Neighborhood Learning Centers
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Re-examination of educational roles
- learner roles
- learning facilitator roles
- redistribution of these roles
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Kinds of knowledge
- Common knowledge
- Specialized knowledge
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Environments for learning: A vision of a Learning Center
- size
- social structure
- kinds of interactional frameworks to support learning
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Tele-task forces
- short term
- interaction of folks inside and outside of the educational system
- "authentic"
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Grand and Everyday Challenges for Education
- Range of challenges
- People posting "real" problems they face
- students and teachers selecting appropriate challenges
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Kinds of Challenges
- Long-shot problems
- Distributed datasets
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Teleapprenticeships
- Longer term relationships
- multiple overlapping teleapprenticeships
- progression to expertise: from lurking toward mastery
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Relationship of education to the rest of society
- Breaking down the walls
- The World as resources for education
- Education as resources for the rest of the World
- students as valued mediators of problem solving and information processing
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Students as mediators
- Web weavers
- Network-based problem solvers
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Log analyses of web accesses
09/01/96 01:45:43 OK luck.latrobe.edu.au :Impact:pointers:Eng-French_dictionary 92
09/01/96 01:47:01 OK spr-mo4-17.ix.netcom.com :Mining:Overview.html 3073
09/01/96 01:50:20 OK ocelot.eng.lycos.com :edpsy-387:Rumi-Tatsuta:stan.gif 0
09/01/96 01:51:54 OK cbgw1.att.com :YLP94-95:Mini-units:Kresin.Chinese:index.html 0
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For next week
- work on your projects, given the feedback
- finish unfinished mini-projects
- oral progress report