University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education
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Visions of education in the future
- Workbenches
- Language construction sets
- Augmented reality: a merging of the virtual and the real
- Telepresence
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How will people learn in the future? A range of visions
- Super high-tech classrooms - the classroom "video arcade" nightmare
- Home telelearning - the totally distributed option
- Neighborhood Learning Centers
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Visions of K-12 education
- utopian visions
- disutopian 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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Neighborhood Office Centers
- Telecommuting: central office vs. home work
- NOCs as an intermediate case
- benefits & costs
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Why learn?
Costs
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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"
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For next week
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