1. CEP 909 - Welcome August 29, 2002

2. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Who’s Who?  Team up with someone you don’t know  Talk to them for 5 minutes  Introduce them to the class

3. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Hands on Activity - Read a Story  Handouts coming.  Hand back the story when you’re done.

4. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Hands on Activity - Make Some Definitions  Form groups of three  Take 15 minutes to come up with a definition for TECHNOLOGY and a definition of COGNITION  You may use whatever you want (including the internet)  Be prepared to defend your definition  Write your definitions on the board

5. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology The class  Almost everything you need to know about the class can be found online off of my home page:  http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu OR http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu  http://www.msu.edu/~mkoehler/ http://www.msu.edu/~mkoehler/

6. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Where do Cognition and Technology Meet?  Theories of mind - The advent of the digital computer started influencing how people thought about cognition.  Designing Technology - How people work, think, and learn has an influence on the kinds of technology we build.  New Forms of Learning - Advances like the WWW has changed the processes whereby we learn.  Modeling -

7. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Projects  More details in the weeks to follow  Together, we will work to design methods to study how people learn from hypermedia (WWW) materials  You will be working in groups to do this

8. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Stuff We’ll be Doing  Reading - You have to do the readings.  Writing  Talking - You must talk in class  Think - try out ideas you might not agree with  Argue - It's okay to disagree  Collaborate - get along with team members  Attend Class  Have Fun - Joke, laugh, enjoy yourself

9. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Posting Assignments  Your job is to find a way to make your homework publicly visible to the other members of the class  Your website  Geocities, etc…  Yahoo group  Others?

10. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Questions? Comments?

11. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Hands on Activity - Let’s Write!  Take out paper and pencil / pen, and write as much as you can recall about the story you read  Put your name on it, and hand it to the instructor

12. Matthew J. Koehler August 29, 2002CEP 909 - Cognition and Technology Almost Done  Get to a computer and sign up for yahoo group  After instructor has approved your membership, you’re free to go  See you next week.