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cep900 10.25.11. Faculty visit. Dr. Rand Spiro, Educational Psychology & Educational Technology Assignments Discussion RPD working groups. assignments. Faculty visit – Dr. Sara Bolt Witmer, School Psychology Read & Annotate 2 Wikipedia link on school psychology
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cep900 10.25.11 • Faculty visit. Dr. Rand Spiro, Educational Psychology & Educational Technology • Assignments • Discussion • RPD working groups
assignments Faculty visit – Dr. Sara Bolt Witmer, School Psychology Read & Annotate 2 • Wikipedia link on school psychology • Commentary on last five years of research by Dr. Tom Power (former lead editor of one of the major school psychology research journals - School Psychology Review • Commentary by Dr. Matthew Burns on directions for moving forward with research efforts in school psychology (Dr. Burns recently assumed lead editorship of School Psychology Review) • Skim the chapter titles from Best Practices in School Psychology V
faculty visit Dr. Rand Spiro, EPET
public intellectual 3 In 30 seconds, describe an interesting connection between your “home” experience and something discussed by Dr. Spiro.
rdp working groups Autism MQM – seeing MQM issues Motivation
notes: dr. rand spiro New Gutenberg Revolution • All information available easily • Randomly accessible • Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolution (normal and revolutionary science). You are a doctoral student in a time of revolutionary change. You can shape the future rather than build on the past.
notes: dr. rand spiro The world is • non-linear • non-chapterized The Web is similarly organized Transfer - The largest problem in learning
notes: dr. rand spiro Background • cognitive psychologist, schema theory • building schema in the moment, rather than retrieving schema • computers were a good way to do this
notes: dr. rand spiro Cognition/Technology • old model – cognition should shape technology environments • now – technology shapes cognition. Example, information access and searching with technology. • What about the cognitive quality about seeking certainty? NGR requires that we seek multi-perspective, appreciate complexity • only see this multiple perspective seeking on shopping or medical problems
notes: dr. rand spiro Richard Mayer – good research, but instantly outdated Serious games – good idea, but not much good research Need a new philosophy of research to keep up w/ fast pace. In AI, demo or die.
notes: dr. rand spiro Q (Luke): Are there kinds of thinking that technology doesn’t support? Managing complexity.
notes: dr. rand spiro 21st Century Learning complex ideas in ill-defined domains. • What might it look like? Search for different perspectives on a given issue • -
notes: dr. rand spiro Q (Marla): What was ed tech before computers? • TV, other media, materials • Computer assisted instruction • Calculators • Teaching machines • Tutors, self-paced modules • Simulations
notes: dr. rand spiro Q (Liz) – Will learning change to producing Q (Rachel) – Long term memory changing? Q (Jiyoung) – How to select among information?