Michael KoettingSocial Learning: Building the Knowledge Network
21 years oldBusiness Honors / Finance student in my third year at The University of Texas here in AustinI also run a company called Hoot.Me with some of my classmates The idea came about when I was stuck on calculus one night
Here’s what the main page looks likeTrending study sessionsMy classes
Once you enter study session this is what it looks like
Since this is a BYOT panel, I’ve created a link
When viewing technology in education, this is how we have historically thought about it
Early education technologies focused on quality
We got the smart board, which was a really innovative tool designed to make it easier for teachers to communicate with their class
Essentially, the smart board was a mega phone designed to improve one to many communication
Problem because Smart Board didn’t solve the information network problem. Didn’t do anything to organize the smart board material Although the teacher was better communicating with students, the students were still copying smart board lectures onto their pen and paper notebooksNot accessible later
Facebook and Twitter came along and Teacher still viewed it as low quality information = tension between teacher tech and student tech, which was a self fulfilling prophecyBanned from classroomYet now the students had a voice that was on a different channel than traditional EdTech
Teachers on one channel and students on another
Evolved into the teacher being drowned out in the noise when it came to technology
Smart board’s unfortunately become glorified white boards.
This was the perception we were left with
We told students to power down in class
Yet 91% of students access Facebook on a daily bases
Excess capacity
Has to be a way of achieving this
What social network looks likeBut realize that in places of overlap, where we get degree centrality, reasonable segmentation arisesMost degree centrality occurs around schools and campuses, which makes senseSo we get the knowledge networkBenefit is that if US History class is discussing the three causes of the Civil War, the student now has relevancy
Classroom proxy is not new, but most people dodge the privacy issue by making student anonymous = huge moral hazard
Noise is good b/c law of large numbersThis leads to personalized learning at scale
Students can meet Mr. JP online and when they do, 400 messages can cross our lines. My professors beg for 10 instances of participationStephanye was Googling on orbitals, but it wasn’t in the context of her class
Smart board was for teacher and Evernote was for individual….Hoot bridges gap
