This document discusses technology choices for educational designers. It examines the context of courses and explores virtual learning environments, social media, classroom infrastructure, and mobile devices as technological tools. It also considers software tools for learning purposes and the affordances of socio-technical design. Key considerations include the relations between tools, learning materials, copyright issues, and concluding that simple tools can enable rich pedagogical practices when combined with thoughtful design.

1. TECHNOLOGY CHOICES for educational
designers
JARI LARU
21.2.2013
Jari Laru, KT, kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta, Oulun yliopisto
2013

2. A
Basic idea of technical implementation of the course
WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF THE
COURSE

3. Technology is integrated with our everyday life
But learning contexts are quite stable..
Lonka (2011). Sulautuvat
oppimisympäristöt
innostumisen ja
onnistumisen lähteenä.
Sulautuvan opetuksen
seminaari 10.3.2011
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/sulautuvaopetus/ohjelma/

4. Teacher training school classes 1-6
Refurbished section of the school (2012)

5. Modern academic incfra for education/research

8. A
Basic idea of technical implementation of the course
WHICH TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS OR
PLATFORMS WILL BE USED?

11. Over-expectations with to respect to its
intrinsic effects on learning
• ” … This is perhaps not surprising because the same
claims have been made about every new technology
developed in the last century. For example, when the
motion picture, radio, and television were invented,
each was hailed as answer to solving educational
problems” (Heinich, 1979; Cuban, 1986; Mayer, 1999).
• ”Instructional methods make the difference in how well
students learn, not the message or the delivery
technology” (Clark, 1983)

12. A
Which technological tools OR platforms will be used?
VIRTUAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS & SOCIAL MEDIA

14. Retro approach: Learning managament systems

15. Integrated approach: multiple social software tools & mobile device

16. Single software approach

17. http://www.slideshare.net/agalorda/the-end-of-teaching-as-we-know-it

18. A
Which technological tools OR platforms will be used?
CLASSROOM INFRASTRUCTURE

19. http://www.aronet.fi/downloads/SMART_Classroom_Tour_Wor
king/START_HERE.html

20. Future is here NOW
Dillenbourg, P. (2010), The
appeal of motionless devices in
a world where everything
moves. Keynote talk at the 6th
IEEE WMUTE 2010
Conference, Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, accessed on June 29,
2011 at
http://wmute2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/
Pierre%20DILLENBOURG.pdf.

21. 10:1 1:ALL
~30 € ~4000 €

22. Two interactive interfaces..
~150€ ~4000 €

23. A
Which technological tools OR platforms will be used?
MOBILE DEVICES

24. http://vodpod.com/watch/15508281-alan-kays-dynabook-rare-nhk-
video-ipad-1960-1970-lukujen-taitteessa?u=larux&c=mobiililuento
http://www.slideshare.net/larux/1-luento-tieto-
ja-viestinttekniikan-perusteet-opintojaksolla-tvt-
opetuskytn-historia

25. 2002
“His 2002 paper with Roy Pea,
"Walk on the Wild Side," has
been influential in
understanding the future
possibilities for wireless
handheld learning devices”
Roschelle, J., & Pea, R. (2002).
A walk on the WILD side: how
wireless handhelds may
change CSCL, 51-60.
Retrieved from
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm
?id=1658616.1658624

26. Simple tools, rich
pedagogical
practises (Roschelle,
2002)

27. Gartner’s hype cycle (Laru, 2012)
~2000 ~2010

28. www.jarilaru.eu

29. A
Basic idea of technical implementation of the course
WHICH SOFTWARE TOOLS WILL BE
USED FOR LEARNING PURPOSES?

30. Look at what tools are already
available around you
Are you

31. Free (opensource)
software
Commercial
software

32. Free software + IWB interface
~150€
http://open-sankore.org/

33. Wevideo (0 eur)

35. B
TECHNOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND
PEDAGOGICAL AFFORDANCES OF
SOCIO-TECHNICAL DESIGN

36. http://www.slideshare.net/larux/affordances-
short-introductionlarulet2011

37. C
RELATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT
TECHOLOGICAL AND SOFTWARE TOOLS
OR STUCTURE OF THE ONE TOOL

38. Case study III: pedagogical design

39. CASE STUDY III: SOCIO-TECHNICAL DESIGN

40. SAME DESIGN WITH SRL

41. D
LEARNING MATERIALS AND OTHER
CONTENT RELATED ISSUES

42. What kind of material are already
available in the tools.. Case: Smart
Notebook after purchase

43. Tabula rasa. Case: New wiki
.

45. Copyright and licencing issues

46. Read EULAs!

47. E
CONCLUSION

48. From PPT by Jermann, P. Scripting collaboration with ManyScripts http://manyscripts.epfl.ch/

49. Simple tools, rich
pedagogical practises
(Roschelle, 2002)

50. Thanks!
http://www.jarilaru.eu
http://slideshare.net/larux
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jari-laru