University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education

But first...

Your eportfolios
Your major project & the proposal
The "bakeoff" brown bag, Friday, noon, 192 Lincoln Hall
Style guide to technology terms (but times change: "emails" is now more acceptable)

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Visions of education in the future

Workbenches
Language construction sets
- SF Story
- Recommendation letter writer
Telepresence: ChickScope & BugScope, UIUC telescope
Augmented reality: a merging of the virtual and the real (see the article about single chip GPS in WebBoard Resources)
wireless
voice

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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"
- Noon Observation Project

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Consistency/simplicity/aesthetically attractive

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Match of interface to audience goals
Lin & Levin paper

Liang-Yi Lin's "St. Louis" Hypercard multiple interface example (will only run on a Mac) (1.1 MB hqx file)

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