Orchestrating Soft and Hard Technologies

Orchestrating soft and hard technologies Jon Dron Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute https://tekri.athabascau.ca/ Athabasca University JTEL Winterschool, Innsbruck, 2010 1 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

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Pedagogies or technologies ﬁrst? 3 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced Learning? http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced learning? http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo= %27IMAGELIBRARY/473%27) Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced learning? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gloeden,_Wilhelm_von,_n._0027,_Socrate_alla_fonte.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced learning? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Torvisen_kansakoulu_1924-26.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced learning? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/SA6HEWNCB5I/AAAAAAAABeA/FTkqbqDd9do/s1600-h/1964-worlds-fair-schoolmarm.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Technology-enhanced learning? Tuesday, 2 February 2010

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What is a technology? “Orchestration of phenomena to our use” “A phenomenon captured and put to use” “Programming of phenomena to our purposes ” “A combination of artefacts and what you do with them” “The way things are done around here” (Ursula Franklin) 11 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Tools are not educational technologies 12 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

What is a pedagogy? A way of doing things A learning design Methods and procedures A technology 13 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

An old idea... “a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization, and utilization of learning resources and through the management of these processes” (AECT, 1972) http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3855473015/in/set-72157622140446726/ 14 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Assemblies Images from Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Holistic vs prescriptive http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/llgc/3989887122/sizes/o/ http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/osucommons/3724232782/sizes/l/ Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Educational assemblies Professional frameworks, Government policies and standards and accreditation regulations University policies, processes and regulations Classrooms Subject-level technologies Pedagogies and learning designs Learning management systems Timetabling Network infrastructure Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Parts and wholes • structure and behaviour • is a pedagogy a sub-assembly of other technologies or vice versa (sometimes)? 18 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Pedagogies are ﬂexible electronic technologies are not (so much) 19 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Parts and wholes 20 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Parts and wholes http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Complex-adaptive-system.jpg 21 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Soft and hard technologies http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Furby.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_museum_025_adjusted.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The soft-hard spectrum Hard Soft http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asp_rocket.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Shint%C5%8D_prayer.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Naive view cognitivist quiz generators pedagogies timetabling ﬂash card machines ADDIE process institutional strategies LMSs Hard Soft behaviourist wikis adaptive pedagogies email systems constructivist blogs PCs pedagogies whiteboard pen Tuesday, 2 February 2010

richer view Advanced Cognitivist LMSs PCs pedagogies Adaptive systems Constructivist Timetabling wikis blogs Hard pedagogies ADDIE process Soft Institutional strategies Quiz generators email Behaviourist Flash card machines pedagogies Whiteboard Basic Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Assembly view Advanced full tuition automated help by email system Hard email Soft class listserv answer question email to SMS Basic Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Consequences of this perspective Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The question of compatibility http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jigsaw.svg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Total incompatibility http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craie1.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheese_market_Basel.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Sub-optimal incompatibility http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/2948560477/sizes/o/ 30 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Heath Robinson incompatibility 31 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Adaptable incompatibility http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/3203311346/ 32 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The dark side of mashing up http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07660 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Choice and control 100% 75% Control 50% 25% Cho ices 0% 34 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The great unknown http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AdventuresIntoDarkness1401.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Maintenance http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/osucommons/3226077133/ Tuesday, 2 February 2010

People matter • people matter most http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/3326203787/sizes/o/ 37 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Traditional view http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_education_boys_Gujarat.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

New view http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linkware.jpg Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Reverse the trend Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Good people do bad things http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satan_Exulting_over_Eve.jpg 41 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

soul > technique If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn (Charlie Parker) 42 Tuesday, 2 February 2010

No signiﬁcant difference? Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The need for communication http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b2.htm Tuesday, 2 February 2010

What’s new? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3855473015/in/set-72157622140446726/ Tuesday, 2 February 2010

that’s all folks jond@athabascau.ca http://jondron.athabascau.ca Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute Tuesday, 2 February 2010

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