But first...

Animated graphics

• strengths
  • weather.com
  • Antarctica plate tectonics
  • ASL example
• Misuses of animation
  • all animated
  • animaniacs
• controlling animated gifs: GifBuilder for Macs; similar tools for Windows

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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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Visions of K-12 education

• utopian visions
• disutopian visions

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Visions of higher education

• Manning & Oakley vision
• CTER OnLine

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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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Teleapprenticeships

• Longer-term relationships with groups outside the classroom with participation by the learner proceeding from peripheral to more central
• Example: Teaching Teleapprenticeships
• multiple overlapping teleapprenticeships
• progression to expertise: from lurking toward mastery

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Tele-task forces

• short term
• interaction of folks inside and outside of the educational system
• "authentic"
  • Noon Observation Project

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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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Web-based support for Grand & Everyday Challenges

• Challenge posing
• Challenge seeking
• a Challenge workspace

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Kinds of Challenges

• Long-shot problems
• Distributed datasets
• service learning

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Changing the 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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For next week

• Write up your vision of education in 2020 as a web file, send me the URL and a short descriptive title by Monday
• 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