Create. Curate. Connect.

Michelle Apuzzio

Pat Tooker

#HEYDEN#NACU14

WHAT IS IT WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO LEAVE WITH?

So let me start with a question to all of you?

Bonnie Bassler

“I need students who can get along with others, who can work as part of a team. I need people who are able to listen, who are curious, and hard-working.”

“What was the last international collaborative project you were involved in?”

So with these shared objectives, why am I here talking with you about educational technology and online learning?

BECAUSE WE LIVE WITH MEDIA LIKE FISH LIVE IN WATER.

The Internet in Real Time

Freeman S, Eddy S, McDonough M, Smith M, Okoroafor N, Jordt H, Wenderoth M; Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics, PNAS April 2014

Take out your devices.

I’m a skeptic.

“…to be awake to the world we’re building.”

What are we supporting through the use of these tools?

• Group skills• Critical thinking• Problem solving• Collaboration• Developing, creating, and revising• Approaching failure as iterative• Continuous feedback• Deep reflection

Here’s one way to think of it…

1. Create2. Curate3. Connect

Create

• A conversation• Words and/or pictures• Show your work.

“Learning from experience is enriched by reflecting on that experience.”

Explainers

Telestration technology

• Digital Storytelling course• Open. Online. Networked community.• 15-week course • Students frame their own digital identity

Minecraft

• Sandbox video game• Enter as avatar• Build simulations of problems or particular

create experiences• Active engagement that simultaneously calls

on diverse ways of knowing

• Leveling up• Cooperative play• Just-in-time feedback• Well defined problems within ill-defined

problems• Many possible outcomes• Actions have meaning• Incremental (vs. entity) intelligence• What you DO is assessment• Mentoring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syRTZ5ouqc

80% of your gaming time is spent failing

Successful Third Places…

• Neutral ground• Conversation is the main activity• Accessible• Accommodating• Regulars• Mood is playful

Design to be more game-like.

Curate.

What elements form the collection of them?

ePortfolios

• Electronic collections of a students’ work over the course of their academic career

• Artifacts of their learning• Broader than a transcript• Portable

Digital Badges• Electronic containers for accomplishment• What makes for a badge?• Awarded with evidence of competence• Meaningful on the outside• A better link between employers and job seekers• Think outside classroom too• Mozilla Open Badges• Blackboard and Moodle

UC Davis, Sustainable Agriculture

A Domain Of One’s Own

Domain of One’s Own

• Provide each freshman with a domain name• Assigned to a web server • Develop digital identity• First year series of seminars…

First Year Seminars…

• Experiment with server management tools• Create sub-domains• Create email addresses• Create databases• Manage file structures• Install scripts• Play with wikis and blogs that they create• Tinker• Import and export• Curate• Study the design & function of their digital environment• Assemble a platform to support their publishing

THEY BECOME SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS FOR THEIR OWN DIGITAL LIVES.

In other words…

What do they learn?

• Knowledge management• Curation skills• Multimodal writing• Intellectual property• Bibliographic instruction• Social networking• Understand network effects that arrive recursively• Think about the web at the level of the server• Digital fluency• Well prepared for responsible leadership in the world

And the faculty and staff?• They travel right along with their students• Fellow learners• Companion faculty programs• A bridge between student affairs and

academic affairs

“…the whole student - who are they? What are their values, what do they do outside of class, what are their abiding interests, where do they hope to be going?”

- Frank Wong

Connect.

• Participation in forums & affinity spaces• Posting creations to a wider audience• Peer learning• Connecting with researchers at other

institutions• Connecting with other classrooms around the

world

Jesse Stommel

• The Twitter essay• Student essays in response to a prompt• Peer review

Peer Instruction• Eric Mazur• Learning Catalytics• Pairing/grouping students in a planful way• Peer evaluation of group projects

UMass, Amherst Course:“Effective Decision Making in the Age of Cloud Computing”

The Course• Undergraduate, global course• Gino Sorcinelli, Isenberg School of

Management and David Buchanan, School of Public Health

• Since Spring 2011• In fall ’14, it will be 4 continents, 5 countries, 6

universities

Who?

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst• The National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway• Novgorod State University, Novgorod Russia• The American University of Egypt• The National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan• The Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages,

Taiwan

What do they do?

• Biotech company efficacy• International teams• Each team produces a presentation• Tools: email, video conferencing, Instant

Messaging, Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint

• All student materials are in the cloud• Cloud Teaching Fellows Program

My favorite part of this story?

“It was a very collaborative approach to problem solving and getting work done. I couldn’t believe

how accountable we were.”

Lindsay Parenteau, UMass, Amherst Senior Student

http://goo.gl/5uU7KV

And here are mine…

• Focus on affordances, not tools• Avoid tack-ons, make it a working part of what

you do• Aim for intuitive use• Think synthetically• Reward the behavior you want to encourage• Ask for help

"Any technology gradually creates a totally new human environment. Environments are not passive wrappings but active processes…The 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs.”

- Marshall McLuhan

“Learning is about grappling with paradoxes, conundrums – more like a network than an ordered chart of learning outcomes.”

- Gardner Campbell

“A good joke isn’t a punch line, but a story that goes on forever.”

- Louis CK

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