Presentation from JTEL WinterSchool in Innsbruck, 2010, taking as a starting point that soft technologies such as pedagogies, institutional rules, timetabling methods and so have to be considered as integral to assemblies of learning technologies. This perspective has many interesting consequences.

1. Orchestrating soft and
hard technologies
Jon Dron
Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute
https://tekri.athabascau.ca/
Athabasca University
JTEL Winterschool, Innsbruck, 2010
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3. Pedagogies or
technologies first?
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4. Technology-enhanced
Learning?
http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm
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5. Technology-enhanced
learning?
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6. Technology-enhanced
learning?
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7. Technology-enhanced
learning?
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8. Technology-enhanced
learning?
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9. Technology-enhanced
learning?
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11. 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)
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12. Tools are not
educational
technologies
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13. What is a pedagogy?
A way of doing things
A learning design
Methods and procedures
A technology
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14. 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/
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15. Assemblies
Images from Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors
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16. Holistic vs prescriptive
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17. 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
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18. Parts and wholes
• structure and behaviour
• is a pedagogy a sub-assembly of other
technologies or vice versa (sometimes)?
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19. Pedagogies are flexible
electronic technologies are not (so much)
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20. Parts and wholes
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21. Parts and wholes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Complex-adaptive-system.jpg
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22. Soft and hard
technologies
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Furby.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_museum_025_adjusted.jpg
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23. The soft-hard spectrum
Hard
Soft
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24. 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
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25. 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
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26. Assembly view
Advanced
full tuition automated help
by email system
Hard
email
Soft
class listserv
answer
question email to SMS
Basic
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27. Consequences
of
this
perspective
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28. The question of
compatibility
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29. Total incompatibility
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craie1.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheese_market_Basel.jpg
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30. Sub-optimal
incompatibility
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/2948560477/sizes/o/
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31. Heath Robinson
incompatibility
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32. Adaptable
incompatibility
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/3203311346/
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33. The dark side of
mashing up
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07660
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34. Choice and control
100%
75%
Control
50%
25%
Cho
ices 0%
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35. The great unknown
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AdventuresIntoDarkness1401.jpg
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36. Maintenance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3226077133/
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37. People matter
• people matter most
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38. Traditional view
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_education_boys_Gujarat.jpg
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39. New view
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linkware.jpg
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40. Reverse the trend
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41. Good people do bad
things
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satan_Exulting_over_Eve.jpg
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42. soul > technique
If you don’t live it, it won’t
come out of your horn
(Charlie Parker)
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43. No significant
difference?
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44. The need for
communication
http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b2.htm
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45. What’s new?
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46. that’s all folks
jond@athabascau.ca
http://jondron.athabascau.ca
Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute
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