Media Gap

Keeping Technology in Mind: Using Technology to Encourage Life-long Learning Richard Culatta BYU School of Education

Becoming Lifelong Learners
The key to having an abundant life “involves an endless search for knowledge, light and truth.”
- James E. Faust

Who Are Lifelong Learners?
Lifelong learners are students who continue to study and learn the content of your class, even after your class is over.

A Look at Technology Use

Curricular Technology Use Innovativeness Interactivity

Curricular Technology Use Innovativeness Watch Television Use the Internet Use overhead projector Interactivity Watch Videos PPT

Non-Curricular Technology Use Innovativeness Interactivity

Non-Curricular Technology Use Innovativeness Watch Television Listen to Radio MP3 Player Play Video Games Watching DV Use Mobile Computing Devices Interactivity Watch Videos Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams

Curricular vs. Non-Curricular Innovativeness Watch Television Listen to Radio MP3 Player Use the Internet Play Video Games Watching DV Use Mobile Computing Devices Use overhead projector Interactivity Watch Videos Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams PPT

Internet Use
Curricular Internet Use
Look at static documents
Non-Curricular Internet Use
Online role-playing and gaming (simulations)
Creating personal web pages (32% of 8-18 year olds)
Using webcams (1 out of every 6 internet users have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. 21 million people have viewed material on web cams)
Downloading PodCasts (30% of people with iPods have downloaded podcasts)

Internet Use
Non-Curricular Internet Use
More than one quarter of all Americans use portable devices that enable them to go online to surf the Web or check email. (PEW, 2004)
8 million American adults say they have created blogs, 30% of internet users read blogs (PEW)

Some Statistics about Media Use
2/3 of students carry a portable media device (kaiser)
15% of students between the ages of 8 and 18 have their own handheld internet device (kaiser)
1/3 of young people use media (instant messenger, surf the web, etc) at the same time they are doing homework
70% of college students play video or online games at least once in a while. 65% of college students are regular or occasional game players. (PEW)
Half of college student gamers agreed that gaming keeps them from studying. In addition, about 10% admitted that their main motivation for playing games was to avoid studying. (PEW)

Summary of Student Media Use
Highly Interactive
Highly Integrated
Highly Interesting

What’s the Point?’ Curricular Media Use Non-Curricular Media Use

What’s the Point?’ Curricular and Non-Curricular Media Use

So, How do We Go About Doing It?

Creating Simulations MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Create Simulations
Virtual Audiometer
Kwong’s study
Watching DV

Using PodCasts MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Weekly PodCast (guest lecture)
Phil Windley
Watching DV

Using Webcams MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Spanish Example
Music Example
Watching DV

Instant Messenger MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Virtual Office Hours
Group collaborations
Watching DV

Using Wikis MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Wikipedia (IP&T 301 -editing after my course ends)
VooDoo Pad Lite
Watching DV

Some Suggestions for Doing It MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams Creating video portfolios Video logging projects Watching DV

Some Suggestions for Doing It MP3 Player Play Video Games Use Mobile Computing Devices Use the Internet Use Instant Messenger Edit Wikis Use Webcams
Google Earth
QTVR Simulations - Livingstone
Creating Personal Webpages
Watching DV

Requiring the Use of Technology
Does any student on this campus not have access to all of the technology presented?
Will any of our students not have access to all of the technology presented after they graduate?

Final Thoughts
John Seeley Brown

Keeping Technology in Mind: Using Technology to Encourage Life-long Learning Richard Culatta BYU School of Education

Media Gap

by Richard Culatta on Dec 17, 2008

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