Welcome to Educ 3412 Computers In Education Today’s Agenda Icebreaker Assigned Getting started: Computers as systems Sharp, Ch. 3 Habermas and 3 types of learning The Future: Sharp, Ch. 16 Syllabus exploration ISTE/NETS
Icebreaker: Getting to know each other If you could invite one person from all of history past, present, or future to share a meal with you, Who would you choose? Tell us about the meal. 4. Why did you make these choices? How might your guest use today’s technology meaningfully? Think. Then pair and share with neighbor Please introduce yourselves to class.
Habermas: 3 types of learning In teams, please summarize and exemplify Instrumental learning Communicative learning Emancipatory learning How can technology help us with each?
Habermas and knowledge/learning Instrumental Accomplishing task; skill development Communicative Communicating meaning; reflection development Emanicpatory Transforming reality: opportunity development
The Future of Technology: Sharp Ch. 16 Share a look, please at Ch. 16 What strikes you? What types of learning will enable teachers and students to participate in it? How so?
ISTE What is it? How are standards useful? How are standards problematic? Which domains of knowledge/learning does ISTE address?
Course syllabus online. Exploring syllabus. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dglisczi Agenda
Our course syllabus and related links Where and how might it be useful in teaching and learning? Where and how might it be problematic in teaching and learning? What domains of knowledge/learning seem to be present here? What questions do you have?
Getting started: Computers as Systems (Sharp, Ch. 13) Selected terms, definitions, uses: please record Many people know: Some people know: Few people know: Analogies: term is to computer as _ is to _ (try three of these) Image(s) Notes ICQ
For next week, please Complete course preassessment (on schedule page): complete, email, print and bring in Read Sharp, Chapter 3: Getting Started/Computers as Systems
Types of Learning Instrumental Communicative Emancipatory Habermas (1984) 1. mastering tasks, solving problems, and learning how to manipulate environments and people toward specific ends 2. critical assessment of assumptions supporting the justification of existing norms in order to think and act in a self-authoring manner. 3. critically understanding context, history, social structures, and power structures which shape epistemological perspectives. Instrumental Emancipatory Communicative