University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education
Educational Visions: Technology and Educational Reform
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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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Your visions
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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 with groups outside the classroom with participation by the learner proceeding from peripheral to more central
Example:
Teaching Teleapprenticeships
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For next week
Read all the visions of all the other class members
Send me the URL to a file with your comments on one or more of the other visions, compared to your own