Education, Fallacies, and Skeuomorphs: Why Make Learning Harder?

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Dr. Jeff D Borden

Neo-Millennial Models for Education

Moving Learning Into The Future Personalization Innovation Curriculum Integration 21 st Century Learning Data Analysis Competency Outcomes Motivation Learning Analytics Gamification Neo-Millennial Learning Authentic Assessment Social Learning PBL Flipped Classroom ARG Creativity Choice Multi-Modal Multi-Nodal Instructional Design Narrative Differentiation MOOC

Earthquake Reporting

First Hour of Earthquake

Earthquake Photos

Buy It Now…

Medicine / WebMD

Dating / eHarmony – 20%

Banking / eBanking

Friendships

Secrets

Education

Schools: Anti-Connected? Cell Phones Laptops Collaboration Wolfram Alpha Wikipedia –Cliff Notes

That’s SO 1992… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992

Mark Edmundson

Eliminating Diversity

Dr. Eric Mazur

Lecture vs Sleep: Eric Mazur

Academically Adrift (Arum / Roksa, 2011) “….but for a large proportion of them [students] the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically nonexistent.” 45% : 2 Years 36% : At Graduation

That’s SO 1992… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992 What’s the best way to do what I normally do in the classroom online? –Sincerely, 2002

Online Education: At Best

Online Education: At Worst

How Would You Weigh A Boeing 747?

Divergent (Lateral) Thinking: How Many Piano Tuners Are In Chicago?

Convergent (High Stakes Test) Thinking: There are approximately 5,000,000 people living in Chicago. On average, there are two persons in each household in Chicago. Roughly one household in twenty has a piano that is tuned regularly. Pianos that are tuned regularly are tuned on average about once per year. It takes a piano tuner about two hours to tune a piano, including travel time. Each piano tuner works eight hours in a day, five days in a week, and 50 weeks in a year. From these assumptions we can compute that the number of piano tunings in a single year in Chicago is __________. (5,000,000 persons in Chicago) / (2 persons/household) × (1 piano/20 households) × (1 piano tuning per piano per year) = 125,000 piano tunings per year in Chicago And we can similarly calculate that the average piano tuner performs _____ tunings per year. (50 weeks/year)×(5 days/week)×(8 hours/day)×(1 piano tuning per 2 hours per piano tuner) = 1000 piano tunings per year per piano tuner. So, there are approximately _______ piano tuners in Chicago. (125,000 piano tuning per year in Chicago) / (1000 piano tunings per year per piano tuner) = 125 piano tuners in Chicago.

Skeuomorph

Skeuomorphs

Skeuomorph

Better Ways

Soulver

Why Do We…

Conrad Wolfram

Dan Meyer: Compelling Questions

Authentic Education In Groups, please answer the following questions: 1. What is the best illustration of curriculum integration that you know can share here? 2. How will instructors connect content and curriculum across classroom (disciplinary) lines in the near future? 3. What is an original example of curriculum integration within your discipline?

That’s SO 1992… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992 What’s the best way to do what I normally do in the classroom online? –Sincerely, 2002 What’s the best way to learn? –Sincerely, 2012

e-vangelists vs C.A.V.E. People

We Know Reform…

Tyson says its Krisp N’ Krunchy patties, “…yield up to 7,200 EXTRA servings per diverted truck of chicken compared to similar chicken patties from other manufacturers.” Tyson Website – “Tools for Chicken Reprocessing”

We Know Research…

We Know (more) About the Brain…

Pattern Recognition

Hidden Patterns

Betting Against Education “College should be a fall-back option…” "Learning is good. Credentialing and debt is very bad," he said. "College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt."

Creativity “Chief Executives believe that – more than rigor, management discipline, integrity, or even vision – navigating an increasingly complex world will require creativity.” 80% of employers seeking creative employees cannot find them to hire… IBM 2010 Global CEO Survey 1500 CEO’s from 60 Countries

John Taylor Gatto “…a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools.” He said, “45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre- empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.”

Bringing It Altogether We are connected… …and we know more about learning than ever… …so let’s not rely on old, ineffective methods… Let’s strive for the best ways to educate… …through cognitive science… …student choice… …collaboration… …authentic tension… …and diversity.

Edu-Blogger: YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying Attention?Have You Been Paying Attention? “…Has anyone seen this garbage? Technology simply promotes copy & paste! Educators must teach them to be original, have original thought, and do original work! Imagine if society worked this way. We’d still be hoping someone would invent the rolling stone so as to create a wheel. Imagine a world where using other people’s work to create your own was ok. We’d never have gotten past the toaster to see the benefits of the microwave. We’d never have gotten past swing music to experience amazing original works like Elton John’s “The Lion King” or other seminal works…”

Remix, Sample or Steal? Can You Feel The love Tonight? Save tonight, fight the break of dawn, come tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll be gone… You’re beautiful! If I could, then I would, I’ll go wherever you will go, way up high, or down low, I’ll go wherever you will go… And she will be loved – and she will be loved… I can’t stand to fly, I’m not that naïve, I’m just out to find, the better part of me, I’m more than a bird, I’m more than a plane… Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe We’re not gonna take it, no we ain’t gonna take it – we’re not gonna take it anymore Wherever you go – whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you Just a small town girl – living in a lonely world – she took the midnight train going anywhere There was a time when I was so broken hearted I think we’re alone now, there doesn’t seem to be anyone around See the stone set in her eyes, see the thorn twist in her side, and I’m waiting for you, with or without you Take on me, Take me up, I’ll be gone, ????? On your mark, get set, and go now – gotta dream and we just know now I come from a land down under, where women roll and men thunder… When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be 1790?!?!?!

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Thank You Dr. Jeff D Borden