orchestrating soft and hard technologies

Orchestrating soft and hard technologies

Jon DronTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute

https://tekri.athabascau.ca/Athabasca University

JTEL Winterschool, Innsbruck, 2010

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

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Pedagogies or technologies first?

Technology-enhanced Learning?

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Technology-enhanced learning?

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What is a technology?

“Orchestration of phenomena to our use”

“The way things are done around here” (Ursula Franklin)

“A combination of artefacts and what you do with them”

“A phenomenon captured and put to use”

“Programming of phenomena to our purposes ”

Tools are not educational technologies

What is a pedagogy?

A way of doing things

Methods and procedures

A learning design

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An old idea...

“a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization, and utilization of

learning resources and through the management of these processes” (AECT, 1972)

Assemblies

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Holistic vs prescriptive

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Educational assemblies

Government policies and regulations

University policies, processes and regulations

Learning management systems

Classrooms

Pedagogies and learning designs

Timetabling

Professional frameworks, standards and accreditation

Network infrastructure

Subject-level technologies

Parts and wholes

• structure and behaviour

• is a pedagogy a sub-assembly of other technologies or vice versa (sometimes)?

Pedagogies are flexible

electronic technologies are not (so much)

Parts and wholes

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Soft and hard technologies

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The soft-hard spectrum

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Naive view

quiz generators

behaviourist pedagogies

cognitivist pedagogies

constructivist pedagogies

flash card machines

emailblogs

wikis adaptive systems

institutional strategies

whiteboard pen

timetabling

ADDIE process

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Quiz generatorsBehaviourist pedagogies

Cognitivist pedagogies

Constructivist pedagogies

Flash card machines

blogswikis

Adaptive systems

Institutional strategies

Whiteboard

Timetabling ADDIE process

PCsAdvanced

Assembly view

HardSo

Advanced

automated help system

full tuition by email

answer question

class listserv

email to SMS

Consequencesof

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The question of compatibility

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Total incompatibility

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Sub-optimal incompatibility

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Heath Robinson incompatibility

Adaptable incompatibility

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The dark side of mashing up

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Choice and control

Control

Choices

The great unknown

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Maintenance

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People matter

• people matter most

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Traditional view

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New view

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Reverse the trend

Good people do bad things

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soul > technique

If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn

(Charlie Parker)

No significant difference?

The need for communication

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What’s new?

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