Welcome - How To Navigate the Website:
Welcome everyone to our website! This has been a group effort between Josh, Kevin, and Amanda. It is with great anticipation that we have prepared many days of readings, videos, audio files, quizzes, polls, and activities for you to interact with.
On the left side of every page is our main menu and hovering your mouse over each menu item will expand it's contents. We have prepared and organized our findings into 7 distinctive days where each day has it's own theme and/or topic including specific learning modules, references, key terms, questions, further readings, and specialized activities. Day 1 contains different aspects of online learning, day 2 is broken down into 4 different learning models and how they relate to online learning, and day's 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are dedicated to specific learning theories showing how they help facilitate different online learning modes.
All learning modules under all days maintain the same structure and and follow the same pattern. Content related to the topic, thought questions, key words, references, and an interactive section dedicated to your comments. In addition, each day will also have an activity related to it that helps further consolidate the ideas presented. Some activities will be interactive and require the participation of the ETEC 512 students and group designers and therefore will take place on specific days and times. If you would like to review all activities and sign-up times on one page you can view our Calender of Events page.
On the left side of every page is our main menu and hovering your mouse over each menu item will expand it's contents. We have prepared and organized our findings into 7 distinctive days where each day has it's own theme and/or topic including specific learning modules, references, key terms, questions, further readings, and specialized activities. Day 1 contains different aspects of online learning, day 2 is broken down into 4 different learning models and how they relate to online learning, and day's 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are dedicated to specific learning theories showing how they help facilitate different online learning modes.
All learning modules under all days maintain the same structure and and follow the same pattern. Content related to the topic, thought questions, key words, references, and an interactive section dedicated to your comments. In addition, each day will also have an activity related to it that helps further consolidate the ideas presented. Some activities will be interactive and require the participation of the ETEC 512 students and group designers and therefore will take place on specific days and times. If you would like to review all activities and sign-up times on one page you can view our Calender of Events page.
participation:
We appreciate you spending sometime participating in our week long online learning symposium. We can understand the limited time all students have when taking into account all groups for this week and therefore only ask that your level of participation should reflect the time you have.
For some, you might find time to read and participate every day and for others you might feel more inclined to pick a day that is of interest to you. In addition, if you find it more comfortable to browse our site using your mobile device, you will find that the entire site is mobile friendly and accessible. In any event, we thank you for your time and appreciate any feedback (comments you can make at the bottom of our pages) on any of our topics or activities throughout this week.
For some, you might find time to read and participate every day and for others you might feel more inclined to pick a day that is of interest to you. In addition, if you find it more comfortable to browse our site using your mobile device, you will find that the entire site is mobile friendly and accessible. In any event, we thank you for your time and appreciate any feedback (comments you can make at the bottom of our pages) on any of our topics or activities throughout this week.
Where Theory Meets Technology:
It is our intention to present to you, through 7 specific days of information, how some of the cognitive and philosophical learning theories can connect to, and be facilitated by, online learning. During your week long stay filled with fun and fantastic facts, we ask you to pay particular attention to the series of questions and specified activities; all of which will help guide you through this learning experience.
Along the way, it is our focus to show both benefits, challenges, thought provoking questions, and activities in the hope that you will further gain valuable knowledge on how online learning can enhance and further develop existing cognitive learning models. If we look more closely at the other learning theories that we have explored this term we can observe that many of them can encompass online learning and learning with technology. In New Theories for New Learnings (1984) Seymour Papert stated that “the computer is going to be a catalyst for deep and radical change in the education system” and "the more people have access to the knowledge of the world, the better the world will be".
Online technologies are enabling learners to communicate using a plethora of media both synchronously and asynchronously forging simultaneous interactions between student-student, student-teacher, student-content, teacher-teacher, content-content and teacher-content. Learning, knowledge, and assessment can develop throughout a modality of learning theories and further be facilitated through online interactions.
Along the way, it is our focus to show both benefits, challenges, thought provoking questions, and activities in the hope that you will further gain valuable knowledge on how online learning can enhance and further develop existing cognitive learning models. If we look more closely at the other learning theories that we have explored this term we can observe that many of them can encompass online learning and learning with technology. In New Theories for New Learnings (1984) Seymour Papert stated that “the computer is going to be a catalyst for deep and radical change in the education system” and "the more people have access to the knowledge of the world, the better the world will be".
Online technologies are enabling learners to communicate using a plethora of media both synchronously and asynchronously forging simultaneous interactions between student-student, student-teacher, student-content, teacher-teacher, content-content and teacher-content. Learning, knowledge, and assessment can develop throughout a modality of learning theories and further be facilitated through online interactions.
Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language. At MIT, Papert went on to create the Epistemology and Learning Research Group at the MIT Architecture Machine Group which later became the MIT Media Lab.[3] Here, he was the developer of an original and highly influential theory on learning called constructionism, built upon the work of Jean Piaget in Constructivism learning theories. Papert worked with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1963[4] and is widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's protégés; Piaget once said that "no one understands my ideas as well as Papert." Papert has rethought how schools should work based on these theories of learning.
references:
Seymour Papert. (1984). New Theories for New Learnings: a transcript from the National Association of School Psychologists Conference. School Psychology Review, 13(4), 422-428.
OLPCFoundation. (Nov 29, 2007). Seymour Papert Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC) [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FQCZa8MyWIg
OLPCFoundation. (Nov 29, 2007). Seymour Papert Interview - One Laptop per Child (OLPC) [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FQCZa8MyWIg