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Orchestrating soft and hard technologies Jon Dron Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute https://tekri.athabascau.ca/ Athabasca University JTEL Winterschool, Innsbruck, 2010 1 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

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Presentation from JTEL WinterSchool in Innsbruck, 2010, taking as a starting point that soft technologies such as pedagogies, institutional rules, timetabling methods and so have to be considered as integral to assemblies of learning technologies. This perspective has many interesting consequences.

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Orchestrating soft and hard technologies

Jon DronTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute

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

JTEL Winterschool, Innsbruck, 2010

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Pedagogies or technologies first?

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Technology-enhanced Learning?

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm

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Technology-enhanced learning?

http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo=%27IMAGELIBRARY/473%27)

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Technology-enhanced learning?

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Technology-enhanced learning?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Torvisen_kansakoulu_1924-26.jpg

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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 ”

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Tools are not educational technologies

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What is a pedagogy?

A way of doing things

Methods and procedures

A learning design

A technology13

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An old idea...

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“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)

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Assemblies

Images from Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors

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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

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Parts and wholes

• structure and behaviour

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

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Pedagogies are flexible

electronic technologies are not (so much)

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Parts and wholes

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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

Har

dSoft

quiz generators

behaviourist pedagogies

cognitivist pedagogies

constructivist pedagogies

flash card machines

LMSs

emailblogs

wikis adaptive systems

institutional strategies

whiteboard pen

timetabling

ADDIE process

PCs

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richer viewH

ardSoft

Quiz generatorsBehaviourist pedagogies

Cognitivist pedagogies

Constructivist pedagogies

Flash card machines

LMSs

email

blogswikis

Adaptive systems

Institutional strategies

Whiteboard

Timetabling ADDIE process

PCsAdvanced

Basic

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Assembly view

HardSo

ft

Advanced

Basic

email

automated help system

full tuition by email

answer question

class listserv

email to SMS

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Consequencesof

thisperspective

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The question of compatibility

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Total incompatibility

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Sub-optimal incompatibility

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/2948560477/sizes/o/

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Heath Robinson incompatibility

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Adaptable incompatibility

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/3203311346/

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The dark side of mashing up

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07660

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Choice and control

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25%

50%

75%

100%

Control

Choices

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The great unknown

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AdventuresIntoDarkness1401.jpg

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Maintenance

http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3226077133/

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People matter

• people matter most

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Traditional view

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_education_boys_Gujarat.jpg

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New view

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linkware.jpg

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Reverse the trend

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Good people do bad things

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satan_Exulting_over_Eve.jpg

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soul > technique

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

(Charlie Parker)

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No significant difference?

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The need for communication

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b2.htm

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What’s new?

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that’s all [email protected]

http://jondron.athabascau.ca

Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute

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