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Web Pedagogies Week 7: Systems Approach

This week's web pedagogies cover web-based research examples, theory of affordances, and appropriate technology for course websites. Review of last week, lecture, discussion, lab demonstration, and practical exercises.

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Web Pedagogies Week 7: Systems Approach

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  1. Web PedagogiesWeek 7: Systems Approach

  2. Schedule • Review of last week • Web-based research: some practical examples and hands-on searches • Theory of Affordances: lecture and discussion • Break • Lab: Appropriate technology for the course websites – Demonstration and discussion

  3. Systems Approach • 1: Aronson • What’s the loop that people miss? • Community A’s blood bank has a low supply • Pay people to donate blood: what happens? • Your examples of a system with unintended consequences:

  4. Public Policy Community home school Technology class A systemic view

  5. We need computers in classrooms because: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

  6. What do we expect schools to do?Historically: • Create democratic citizens • Promote equality • Moral and social development of students • Assimilate diverse groups into one nation • http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2495&page=2

  7. What do we expect schools to do?Today: • Train people for the global economy • Sustain technological innovation • Social mobility • Social efficiency • Democratic equality Labaree: First ones have merged to form rationale for competitiveness and have trumped democratic equality

  8. Cuban’s schools • What are his big findings? • Widespread availability of infrastructure has not led to extensive use of technology • Both students and teachers use technology more at home than in school • When small percentages of teachers do become more frequent users of tech, still largely maintain existing classroom practice

  9. Cuban’s explanations • The slow revolution • Adoption of computers now is an early sign of things to come • But, then, why haven’t teachers been quicker to use technology in the classroom when they use it at home? • How does this explain the explosion of investment?

  10. Cuban’s explanations • The multiple contexts of teaching • External dynamics interact with internal ones • Symbolic and actual nature of technology • Social and political organization of schooling, expectations, legacies influence classroom • Business model for schools • Technologies are not value neutral devices

  11. Cuban’s explanations • Contextually constrained choice • Teachers continue to have a great deal of discretion in their classrooms • Must ask practical questions of technology that politicians and software companies don’t • Social and political organization of schooling, expectations, legacies influence classroom • Business model for schools • Technologies are not value neutral devices

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