Way Elementary Tuesday, March 1st 9am-12pm Leigh Graves Wolf (& Punya Mishra, in spirit) Michigan State University Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) Program
National Educational Technology Plan, 2010
Today it’s all about you
National Educational Technology Plan, 2010
sticky notes
Technology & Education
Technology & Education
What do teachers need to know?
Creativity
Creativity
in teaching
Creativity
in teaching with technology
What do teachers need to know?
Technology
Pedagogy
Content
Context
d n a , e c n ie c s a is y g lo o h c y Ps teaching is an art...
~ William James
d n a , e c n ie c s a is y g lo o h c y Ps teaching is an art... arts te a er en g er ev n s ce n ie sc d n a ... n directly out of themselves. A kes the a m d in m e v ti en v in ry ia ed interm . ty li a in g ri o g n si u y b n o ti ca li app ~ William James
Creativity
Challenges
Challenges
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Creativity workshops & seminars
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Little Miss Sunshine
9 step plan
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In small groups Share examples of artful or creative teaching from your own student experience (doesn’t have to be big) 2 minutes & share
What is common to these examples?
Attributes: (keeping track of examples)
What do teachers need to know about
Educational Technology?
What is an Educational Technology?
What is an Educational Technology?
There is no such thing
The problem
Most technologies are NOT designed for education!
But
Users redefine technologies
Why is this important?
Only repurposing makes a technology an educational technology..
Repurposing is a creative & innovative act
Some examples!
Audacity, in a math classroom? Echoes from the moon http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367
Distance to moon
Girlanda, L. (2009). Echoes from the moon. arXiv:0903.3367v1 [physics.ed-ph]. Retrieved April 1, 2008, from http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3367v1
Explore | Create | Share Creative play with ed tech
Sparks of Creativity, wiki
Technology
Pedagogy
Content
Context
What is
creativIT y?
I know it when I see it! (Justice Potter Steward 1964)
Creativity
Creativity
Novel
Fresh, unusual, unique, surprising, startling, astonishing, astounding, germinal, trendsetting, radical, revolutionary, influential, pioneering‌
Effective
Valuable, important, significant, essential, necessary, logical, sensible, relevant, appropriate, adequate, effective, functional, operable, useful, user-friendly
ts! o p a e t s ’ n a Don Norm
Whole
Organic, ordered, arranged, organized, formed, complete, elegant, graceful, charming, attractive, refined, complex, intricate, ornate, interesting, understandable, meaningful, clear, self-explanatory, well crafted, skillful, well made, meticulous, careful
Thus a creative product is
Thus a creative product is
N E W
Thus a creative product is
Novel Effective Whole
Creativity is a goal orientated process of developing solutions that are
Novel Effective Whole
Think back to original examples... are they NEW! (Novel Effective Whole)
Synthesize! 5 mins Reduce what we have covered so far into a short poem/limerick
Why do we need
creativIT y?
A new ecology
Generations 10,000 750 500 400 40 24 16 5 4 3 2 1 0
speech agriculture writing libraries universities printing cks accurate clo telephone radio television computers ail internet/em etc. .0 2 b e w , e b utu gps, mp3, yo etc.
It is not that things are changing faster, but rather that the rate of change itself is increasing! — ray kurzweil
Can’t really keep up!
Enough to make one lose hope!!!
The answer:
We have to
Relax Repose Re-teach!
What is half of
8 ?
How do we develop
creativIT y?
Creativity The research
5 steps Preparation interest & immersion in problems Incubation churning below threshold of consciousness Insight: Aha, pieces falling into place Evaluation Is this worth pursuing? Elaboration Translation into final product
Sure!*
* it does help us identify some myths!
Myth 1
Creativity is NOT about having a good idea!
...the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas — Linus Pauling
Creativity is the
Myth 2
creativity is a big sudden insight available only to people with special talents!
creativity is a big sudden insight available only to people with special talents!
Wrong!
Creativity as variations on a theme
Creativity as variations on a theme That let us see the world differently
Consider the Rubik cube
Consider the Rubik cube Can you come up with some variations?
Superficial variations
Why 3 x 3 x 3?
Why n x n x n?
Why platonic solids?
Why 3-d?
Objection! (I hear you say)
This is not real creativity!
Simultaneous motion?
Double Maze Scottkim.com
Creativity is nothing but...
Tweaking knobs
the right
Tweaking knobs ^
Not the wrong ones!
This is Spinal Tap
Creativity is about discovering the right knobs
Can you spot the hidden tiger?
Learning to see (to wonder why?) Developing a childlike sense of wonder
Creativity &
creativIT y? Why?
Only repurposing makes a technology an educational technology..
Repurposing for what purpose?
On going beyond the technology‌
‌ to the core impulses of learning
Dewey’s Core Impulses • • • • •
These fourfold areas of interest-the interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things, or construction; and in artistic expression--we may say they are the natural resources, the un-invested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child. . .
• What are we to do with this interest--are we to ignore it, or just excite and draw it out? Or shall we get hold of it and direct it to something ahead, something better? (p. 48)
Communication Inquiry Construction Expression
Technology for‌ Communication Inquiry Construction Expression
Communication
There is the social instinct of the children as shown in conversation, personal intercourse, and communication . . . The language instinct is the simplest form of the social expression of the child. Hence, it is a great, perhaps the greatest of all, educational resources. (p. 43)
Construction
The child’s impulse to do finds expression first in play, in movement, gesture, and make-believe, becomes more definite, and seeks outlet in shaping materials into tangible forms and permanent embodiment. (p. 44)
Inquiry
Interested in “finding things out� (p. 47) There is no distinction between experimental science for little children and the work done in the carpenter shop. . . Children simply like to do things and watch to see what will happen. (p. 44)
Expression
Combines construction and communication Make the construction adequate, make it full, free, and flexible, give it a social motive, something to tell, and you have a work of art. (p. 44)
Technologies need to be… … seen in new ways. A particular software program can be used in multiple ways for multiple purposes…
Email?
Inquiry • Writing to participants or experts Collaborative papers •
Communication
Construction
Writing letters
Creating documents
Expression • Signature files • Character pictures
Repurposing is a creative & innovative act
Technology
Educational Technology
Any technology can be a learning technology
Book Video Website Video game Television Facebook Airplane
Technology
Educational Technology
Any technology can be a learning technology
Book Video Website Video game Television Facebook Airplane
Educational Technology
Technology
How?
Creativity Technologies need to be creatively re-purposed to become learning technologies
Design Purposeful, iterative, reflective practice that seeks to bring together Technology, Pedagogy & Content in specific contexts
Technology
Pedagogy
Content
Context
Teachers need to...
Create! and....
Share!
Goal: Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams by technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that can empower and inspire them to provide more effective teaching for all learners.
National Educational Technology Plan, 2010
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Start small & keep playing
(re)Learn to see!
(re)Learn to see! developing a childlike sense of wonder
How can you make the familiar strange? ‌ or the strange familiar?
Sticky Ideas
You have to learn to C-SUCCESS
C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick
We have done a lot of exploring over the past few hours....
How are you going to C-SUCCESS in your class? What story will you create?
C create S simple yet, U unexpected C concrete and C credible E emotional S stories that S stick
We will catch up with you and check in periodically via the
PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS we created today!
Technology
Pedagogy
Content
Context