Brief History of Educational Technology

History of Educational Technology January 29, 2008 EC&I 831

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Why bother? • because Alec and Rob say so • rich tradition • Canadian edtech vs. USA edtech • enjoy knowing where you ﬁt - river of life • past provides understanding of the future

Why Engineers Should Know Edgar Dale

Why me? • because Alec & Rob say so • old guy syndrome • know a lot of old dudes • actually studied with some old dudes • started out in the USA • came to Canada early enough to witness much of its growth and transformation

It’s Greek to me Elder Sophists and Future Shop salespeople

Greek Philosophy Four questions of cause: material formal efﬁcient functional

Greek Philosophy 4 questions of cause: material, formal, efﬁcient, functional

seven cardinal virtues & seven deadly sins • chastity • lust • temperance • gluttony • charity • greed • diligence • sloth • patience • wrath • kindness • envy • humility • pride

Question 1: • What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?

Question 2: • Who is the most inﬂuential non-Canadian scholar in educational technology you can name?

Question 3 • Who is the most inﬂuential CANADIAN scholar in educational technology you can name?

Posse cup quiz • How many of these people can you name?

And how about these?

and these?

List of “thinkers” in ECT according to Wikipedia: Rick: Karl Fisch Comenius Ian Jukes James Finn Jamie McKenzie Robert Gagné Scott McLeod Albert Bandura Alan November Seymour Papert Seymour Papert Marshall McLuhan Will Richardson Allan Paivio Gary Stager Nicholas Negroponte John Sweller M. David Merrill Joyce Kazman Valenza Brent Wilson David Warlick David Jonassen David Marcovitz Charles Reigeluth Andy Gibbons Etienne Wenger Denys Hlynka

What is CNIE?

Canadian Network for Innovation in Education - 2007 AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s EMAC-1968 ETRAC - 1968 CAVA - 1961 DAVI - 1958

Journals as moving targets AMTEC • CAVA News - 1958 • Educational Media - 1969 - 1971 • Media Message - 1973 - • Canadian Journal of Educational Communication 1983 - 2001 • Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology 2001 - ??

Journals as moving targets AECT • AVCR - 1952-1977 • Educational Communication and Technology (ECTJ) - 1978 - 1992 • Journal of Instructional Development 1978-1992 • Educational Technology Research & Development 1992 - ??

Panaceas for schools • Film - 1940s • Television - 1950s • Programmed instruction - 1960s • Systematic instructional design - 1970s • Computers - 1980s • The Internet - 1990s • Social networks & Web 2.0 - 2000s

A Turning Point: Social responsibility • One Laptop Per Child (August, 2006 Ted Talk, Nicholas Negroponte) • http://tinyurl.com/2gbo5p

Movement -not technology but epistemology • Objectivism • Cognitivism Individuals • Constructivism • Collective constructionism Groups - Social learning

Shifts in ET from Teemu Arina

Shifts in ET Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism Social Learning

Shifts in ET Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism Social Learning

Distinctly Canadian

Common mis-speakings • ET is a new discipline • Media comparison studies • Data = knowledge • Knowledge - understanding • Models of complex systems are true • Computers can replace teachers • ET = computers + internet + schools

The Future

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Brief History of Educational Technology

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