New Technologies to Enhance Student Learning (BEA 2012) DePietro online: www.depietro.com

1. INTERACTIVE CONTENT,
ONLINE AGENDA AND
PEDAGOGY
Prof. Peter DePietro
University of Cincinnati

2. NEW MEDIA
Education is easily
available, democratic
and immersive

3. INTERNET
Infinite repository of
interconnected, digital
content

4. USER EXPERIENCE
=
STUDENT EXPERIENCE

5. IDEA EXCHANGE
Interactive environments
for the free exchange of
ideas and knowledge

6. PEDAGOGY
Technology transforms the
process of education

7. WEB 2.0
=
EDUCATION 2.0
?

8. TRANSFORMING
EDUCATION WITH
NEW MEDIA:
Participatory Pedagogy,
Interactive Learning and
Web 2.0

9. CASE STUDY
Analysis of Content
in Wikis

10. WIKI
Websites that allow users
to create and edit
content, and contribute to
a repository of
information

11. QUESTION NO. 1
Does the wiki provide
useful, unbiased
information that is
consistent with the
mission of the wiki?

12. QUESTION NO. 2
Can the user contribute
content to the wiki that
will add to the wiki’s
overall usefulness?

13. TYPES OF WIKIS
• Informational resource wiki
• Communications wiki
• Arts wiki
• Education wiki

22. EDUCATIONAL
PROCESS

23. FINDINGS
• Niche-focus
• Commercial use
• Inconsistent “online democracy”
• Rich and trustworthy content
• Unfiltered content
• Agenda-focused information

24. CONCLUSION
In theory, wikis are
POWERFUL
In practice, wikis are
FLAWED

25. Are WIKIS worth using?

26. YES

27. EVOLUTIONARY
PEDAGOGY

28. In the age of NEW MEDIA,
technologies come and go.
Therefore…
PEDAGOGIC CONCEPTS and
TEACHING METHODOLOGIES
must come and go.

29. The SUBSTANCE of what
we teach students should
be GREATER than
inevitable obsolescence

30. Then…
We will ENHANCE student
learning with NEW
TECHNOLOGIES

31. INTERACTIVE CONTENT,
ONLINE AGENDA AND
PEDAGOGY
Prof. Peter DePietro
University of Cincinnati