Educational Technology Prof. Mayra Soto Guzmรกn
Voki-www.voki.com
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Using technology to enhance the educational process involves more than just learning how to use specific pieces of hardware and software.
Introduction
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It requires an understanding of pedagogical principles that are specific to the use of technology in an instructional setting.
Technology
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Constructivist theory: "learners are able to construct their own knowledge" with guidance from their teachers. Students become more active in the learning process and are placed to the center of the instructional experience.
Constructivist Theory
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Learning is an active, constructive process.
The learner is an information constructor. People actively construct or create their own subjective representations of objective reality. New information is linked to prior knowledge.
Constructivism
Vigotsky
Bruner
Constructivism
Dewey
Learning Theories
Piaget
Social interaction plays a fundamental role in the process. The More Knowledgeable Other- MKO ◦ teacher ◦ coach or older adult ◦ peers, a younger person ◦ or even computers
Constructivism-Vigotsky
Zone of Proximal Development oThe area where a student can perform with assistance but not independently.
Social Development ◦ Gestures ◦ Language ◦ Social interaction
“Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level;
Constructivism- Lev Vygotsky
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Collaborative Learning
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Working in groups and adults facilitates learning
Lev Vigotsky
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Is a description of cognitive development as four distinct stages in children:
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sensorimotor preoperational concrete formal
Piaget Theory
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm
Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
The learner selects and transforms information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions.
Socratic Method Discussion Debate Analysis
Jerome Bruner
Instruction must be concerned with the experiences and contexts that make the student willing and able to learn (readiness).
Instruction must be structured so that it can be easily grabbed by the student. Knowledge builds on experience (spiral organization).
Instruction should be designed to facilitate the process of constructing new data and going beyond the information given.
Bruner
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Education should relate to real-life experience.
Dewey believed that universal education could train men to break through habit into creative thought. ď‚—
Method Inquiry-PBL
John Dewey
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Believed that the processes of change often produced conditions that could not be explained.
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The resulting conflict led to creative thinking in which man tried to reestablish control of his changing environment.
John Dewey
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Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources in a digital age.
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- Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
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- Maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
Connectivism-George Siemens
An entity in a network with connections. This could be : a person a group of people the output of a computer or website etc. fields, ideas, communities
Node-Siemens 2005
Tools –Transfer Information
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Use Wordle or Tagxedo Tools to create a word cloud to compare or contrast the philosophy of Vigotsky, Bruner, Piaget and Dewey.
Activity I
Wordle How to use it www.wordle.net
*Needs JAVA
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http://blog.tagxedo.com/101-ways-to-use-tagxedo-completed
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Microsoft Flashcards You need an email account in hotmail.com or Live.com
We can create a deck of flashcards with the vocabulary exposed in class. We can add Picture sound
Use Microsoft Flash Cards
http://www.pil-network.com/Resources/Tools
Activity 2
How to create an avatar?
Visit www.voki.com
Voki
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Customize Your Character Male, Females or monster Head Clothing Bling
Voki
Give it a Voice By phone Keyboard Microphone Save audio file
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6 http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=229958&title=Voki
Citations
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Atherton, J. (2011) Learning and Teaching; Piaget's developmental theory [On-line: UK] retrieved 3 July 2012 from http://www.learningandteaching.info/lear ning/piaget.htm
A Brief Biography of Jean Piaget http://www.piaget.org/aboutPiaget.html
John Dewey Biography
http://www.notablebiographies.com/De-Du/Dewey-John.html
Downes, S. (2006). Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. Recuperado de http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.ht ml
Smith, M.K. (2002) 'Jerome S. Bruner and the process of education', the encyclopedia of informal education http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm
The Top 10 Ways to Use Wordle at School http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teac hing-methods-tips/58905-create-lessonplans-using-wordle-web-technology/ .