Instructional Technologyand the

Classroom:

A Baker’s Dozen for the Teacher

Michael SimonsonProgram Professor

Instructional Technology and Distance Education

Fischler School

http://www.nova.edu/~simsmich

Baker’s Dozen?

In the mid-13th century, British law imposed strict regulations on bakers regarding the weight of bread. Bakers wanted to make sure they complied, since the penalties were severe.

It was difficult to make loaves of uniform weight in those days before automation, so bakers added a 13th loaf to every shipment of 12--better to be overweight than under. Thus "a baker's dozen" meant 13.

Baker’s Dozen

forMike Simonson

ITDE - Nova Southeastern University

1. What is My Role?2. What is Instructional Technolo

gy?

3. Do Students Learn from Instructional Technology – Better?

4. How Do Students Learn?5. What is Web 2.0?6. What is a Trigger Video?7. VOD? What Does That Mean?8. Wikis and Learning --??9. Blogging – Why Should I?10. Podcasts—What Are They?11. ISTE Standards – Even More

Technology?12. Distance Education – Why Me

?+1 What Really Matters?

Baker’s Dozen?

In the mid-13th century, British law imposed strict regulations on bakers regarding the weight of bread. Bakers wanted to make sure they complied, since the penalties were severe.

It was difficult to make loaves of uniform weight in those days before automation, so bakers added a 13th loaf to every shipment of 12--better to be overweight than under. Thus "a baker's dozen" meant 13.

A Baker’s Dozen – Technology And Me?

Teacher as Skeuomorph

Concept

Definition of Instructional Technology

“The theory and practice of design, development, utilization,

management and evaluation of (systematic) processes and resources

for learning.”

Instructional Technology

COMPONENTSCOMPONENTS OF OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGYINSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

• Things/Devices• People• Processes

The World:The World:

The United States:The United States:

Concept

Media Are “Mere Vehicles”

“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition.”

Richard Clark

How Do We Learn?

Visually

We learn by:

We remember from:

Hearing 11%

Seeing 83%

Hearing 20%

Seeing (& Hearing) 50-70%

Gartner

Learning About Social Networking: A Taxonomy

Level 1: Learning about social networks – definitions, history, background, and examples.

Level 2: Designing for social networks – profiling, blogging, wiki-ing, and friending.

Level 3: Studying social networks – ethics, uses, mis-uses, policing, supporting.

Level 4: Learning from and with social networks – social networks for teaching and learning, science, research, and theory building.

Free Audio Recording Software:Audacity

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Trigger VideosA motion media production (most

often a video) that presents a dilemma without resolving it, with the intent

that this video will lead to a discussion among the group for which it is

intended. The dilemma may be of any type – ethical, professional, moral,

financial, social, organizational.