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Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind. SCHOOL'S OUT? A CONVERSATION WITH SEYMOUR PAPERT.
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Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind SCHOOL'S OUT? A CONVERSATION WITH SEYMOUR PAPERT “Many of these things are so associated with school that it is hard for people to shake them off. I give talks about this sort of thing to educators and at the end they say, "Well exactly how is the computer going to help me teach fourth-grade math?" And that's exactly the wrong question -- there's not going to be a "fourth-grade." There's not going to be a separate math class. There's not going to be teaching.” Source: http://memex.org/meme2-13.html Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind What are the expectations? In this talk, we’ll address … • What they have been ‘historically’ • What they should be • Model implementations that illustrate appropriate expectations • The MLI and ERP • Webheads Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind Experiences in CALL since the late 1970’s Prompt: OK, class! Time for another dialog! Response: Oh, no! Not another dialog! Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind My experiences in CALL since the late 1970’s • Repeat after me - focus on ‘would have’ + past vs. pp: • I would have done better on the test but I didn’t sleep well last night. • I would have gone to Bratislava but I had to meet my aunt in Prague. • We would have given him horsemeat but we had just killed a cow. Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind Instructional Dialog Facility c. 1979 Well Done! Ask a question Anticipated right answer yes no No, because … Anticipated wrong answer yes Not the answer I was looking for no Unanticipated answer yes Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind G.Wells (1999) Dialogic Inquiry … The Zone of Proximal Development and its Implications for Learning and Teaching “There could be a very apropos quote here ….” Source:http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~gwells/resources/ZPD.html Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind Two Model Implementations The MLI and the ERP Phenomenon Writing for Webheads World friendship through online language learning Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind Three guiding principles • Technology should be seamlessAccumulating the ingredients • Technology requires competent craftsmenYou can’t have too many cooks • Technology integrated with the curriculumMaking the parts work together Vance Stevens, 2001
Implementing Expectations: The Firewall in the Mind Some firewalls to sidestep • A separate CALL curriculumThere is a curriculum, period • The notion of CALLHow about: BALL, blackboard-assisted … • No need for TENOR, ENSPLanguage that’s authentic, communicative • Beyond our present imaginationExperiment, no boundaries or firewalls Vance Stevens, 2001