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Changing Learning Through Invention,
Research, and Connection
Eva L. BakerNational Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student TestingGraduate School of Education & Information StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Asia-Pacific Educational Research AssociationThe Ecology of Human Growth and Sustainable Societal Development: Contributions from Educational Research and InnovationsPutra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
23 November 2010
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Learning Is a Social Activity with New Implications in the Shrinking World
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Finding the Balance for Joyful Learning
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World Education Research Association
• How can we pursue these tasks?
• Do we know what and how to share?
• Growth and development, intellectual, emotional, economic, geographic
• Trustworthy evidence to guide practice
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Essential Goals for Future
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Presentation Structure
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Two Perspectives on Inventions
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Invention Targets
• New goals, new solution
• Old goals, new solution
• Solve, ameliorate, transform
• Direct to user or tools to mediate inventions
• Reproducible results
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Invention Targets (Cont’d)
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Sources of Invention
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Technology-Push
• Inductive process
• Invention meets new purposes
• Spinning out options
• Tape
• Medications
• Games
• Relaxing constraints
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New Generations of Inventions
• Intelligent tutoring systems
• Mobile computing
• Computing “in the wild”
• Social networks
• fMRI findings
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Criteria for Learning Inventions
1. Intuitive attractiveness
2.Addressing a new goal, to enhance individual or community capacity, including Innovation and invention as a goal to be pursued
3.A solution or tool that is feasible for use in the intended setting applying adapted or invented strategies to meet current and future requirements
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More Criteria for Learning
4. Embedded in an articulated conceptual framework or theory rather than being a one-off artifact—extensible
5. Modifiable for ranges of learners and settings, that is, adaptable
6. Acceptable to users—feasible and useful
7. Evidence of effectiveness
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Mindsets
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Failure as a Context for Invention
• Professor Baker at play
• Graduate Student Baker at work
• Thomas A. Edison
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Try and Try Again
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I will not say I failed 1000 times. I will say that I discovered there are a 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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Failure and Success
Failure Success
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Research Considerations for Proactive, Integrative, and Anticipatory Learning
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Dealing with Differences
• Individual traits
• Cultural and linguistic factors
• Cognitive readiness
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Cognitive Readiness: Preparation for the Unknown
• Problem-Solving
• Adaptation
• Risk-Assessment
• Decision-Making
• Situation Awareness
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Communication
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Goals of Cognitive Readiness
• Flexibility
• Integration
• Transfer
• High function in new situations
• Competence and resilience with rapidly changing constraints
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Integrating Invention and Research with Games: The River City Project
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Impact of Games
• Targeted learning
• Brain functions
• Visualization
• Verbal trade-offs
• Accelerated learning
• Re-norming of intelligence tests
• Collective mental models
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Evidence• To understand phenomena
• Attainment and growth
• Extended performance across content and context
• Assessment and accountability
• Amazon user votes
• Reliability, comparability
• Validity integration
• New psychometrics
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On Connection
• APERA and WERA membership
• Model high quality scholarship and collective conclusions
• Recommendations to influence world-wide approaches to learning research, invention, and practice
• Learning and sharing, building a new tradition
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Summary
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
-----Alan Kayhttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay;http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/html/people/founders.htm
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Is it Time to Flower?
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Malaysia
Malaysia
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