APERA 1 © Regents of the University of California Changing Learning Through Invention, Research, and Connection Eva L. Baker National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association The Ecology of Human Growth and Sustainable Societal Development: Contributions from Educational Research and Innovations Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 23 November 2010

APERA 2 © Regents of the University of California Learning Is a Social Activity with New Implications in the Shrinking World Shared learning is change Interdependencies and competition Important knowledge and skills Accelerated rates of change to maintain personal, familial, community identity Intrusive values global community

APERA 3 © Regents of the University of California Finding the Balance for Joyful Learning Exploration Independence Activity Safety Comfort Calm

APERA 4 © Regents of the University of California World Education Research Association How can we pursue these tasks? Do we know what and how to share? Growth and development, intellectual, emotional, economic, geographic Trustworthy evidence to guide practice

APERA 5 © Regents of the University of California Essential Goals for Future personal learning for specific desires and needs strong and resilient shared values

APERA 6 © Regents of the University of California Presentation Structure connection evidence research invention learning

APERA 7 © Regents of the University of California Two Perspectives on Inventions Invented artifacts Conditions and State of mind Innovation

APERA 8 © Regents of the University of California Invention Targets New goals, new solution Old goals, new solution Solve, ameliorate, transform Direct to user or tools to mediate inventions Reproducible results

APERA 9 © Regents of the University of California Invention Targets (Cont’d) New solutions Old goals Tools New goals

APERA 10 © Regents of the University of California Sources of Invention Requirements- Pull Technology-Push

APERA 11 © Regents of the University of California Requirements-Pull RequirementsSpecificationsInnovation

APERA 12 © Regents of the University of California Technology-Push Inductive process Invention meets new purposes Spinning out options Tape Medications Games Relaxing constraints

APERA 13 © Regents of the University of California New Generations of Inventions Intelligent tutoring systems Mobile computing Computing “in the wild” Social networks fMRI findings

APERA 14 © Regents of the University of California Criteria for Learning Inventions 1.Intuitive attractiveness 2.Addressing a new goal, to enhance individual or community capacity, including Innovation and invention as a goal to be pursued 3.A solution or tool that is feasible for use in the intended setting applying adapted or invented strategies to meet current and future requirements

APERA 15 © Regents of the University of California More Criteria for Learning 4. Embedded in an articulated conceptual framework or theory rather than being a one-off artifact—extensible 5. Modifiable for ranges of learners and settings, that is, adaptable 6. Acceptable to users—feasible and useful 7. Evidence of effectiveness

APERA 16 © Regents of the University of California Mindsets ies%2520Images/hook%2520lady%2520four%2520hooks.jpg&imgrefurl= ista.com/posts/hardware-brass-hooks-from-the-hook-lady&usg=__SW3TFIpZhml4uEx BWmQJ8skMhfg=&h=327&w=475&sz=31&hl=en&start=516&zoom=1&tbnid=RwvBpG0werOQLM: &tbnh=167&tbnw=213&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhook%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfir efox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1767%26bih%3D828%26tbs%3Di sch:11%2C11095&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=812&vpy=228&dur=187&hovh=186&hovw=271 &tx=187&ty=120&ei=buDaTPTsMpGesQPB3K3gBw&oei=VODaTLCuGI3msQPhoJC3Bw&esq=21&p age=16&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:32,s:516&biw=1767&bih=828

APERA 17 © Regents of the University of California Failure as a Context for Invention Professor Baker at play Graduate Student Baker at work Thomas A. Edison

APERA 18 © Regents of the University of California Try and Try Again I will not say I failed 1000 times. I will say that I discovered there are a 1000 ways that can cause failure.

APERA 19 © Regents of the University of California Failure and Success Failure Success

APERA 20 © Regents of the University of California Research Considerations for Proactive, Integrative, and Anticipatory Learning cn/200407/30/images/0729_B35.jpg&imgrefurl= peopledaily.com.cn/200407/30/eng _ html&h= 418&w=280&sz=55&tbnid=T60LMEhYkfqcPM:&tbnh=274&tbnw= 184&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmalaysian%2Bchildren&zoom=1&q= malaysian+children&hl=en&usg=___ctUORpiuWW1PNgWIVsev PFm1yM=&sa=X&ei=2fm9TJGKK4a6sQOAnbXGBA&sqi=2&ved= 0CBYQ9QEwAg

APERA 21 © Regents of the University of California Dealing with Differences Individual traits Cultural and linguistic factors Cognitive readiness

APERA 22 © Regents of the University of California Cognitive Readiness: Preparation for the Unknown Problem-Solving Adaptation Risk-Assessment Decision-Making Situation Awareness Collaboration Teamwork Communication

APERA 23 © Regents of the University of California Goals of Cognitive Readiness Flexibility Integration Transfer High function in new situations Competence and resilience with rapidly changing constraints

APERA 24 © Regents of the University of California Integrating Invention and Research with Games: The River City Project

APERA 25 © Regents of the University of California Impact of Games Targeted learning Brain functions Visualization Verbal trade-offs Accelerated learning Re-norming of intelligence tests Collective mental models

APERA 26 © Regents of the University of California Evidence To understand phenomena Attainment and growth Extended performance across content and context Assessment and accountability Amazon user votes Reliability, comparability Validity integration New psychometrics

APERA 27 © Regents of the University of California On Connection APERA and WERA membership Model high quality scholarship and collective conclusions Recommendations to influence world-wide approaches to learning research, invention, and practice Learning and sharing, building a new tradition

APERA 28 © Regents of the University of California Summary “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” -----Alan Kay

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