Internet2 Imagination

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Internet2 Imagination for Teaching
Learning Marty Siegel School of
Informatics Indiana University msiegel_at_indiana.ed
u September 28, 2004 Austin, Texas
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In 1986, Understanding Computer-Based
Education PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated
Teaching Operations) computer imagination
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The problem was imitation, not imagination. We
were copying one medium onto another.
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The challenge was (and still is) to exploit the
medium to take advantage of its strengths for
some particular gain (in our case, teachingand
learning)
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• So what are Internet2s
• strengths as a medium?
• Speed
• Group to group connectivity
• Multicasting
• Sharing resources (large datasets)

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What can we do that we simply could not do
before? Its not about replicating class-rooms.
After all, its not as if the lecture hall is the
gold standard of instruction.
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• These are just some thoughts
• immersive scenarios implicit or tacit knowledge
  vs. explicit knowledge
• über-me life-long intelligent portfolios that
  creates a learner model of the student
• intelligent tool palettes the right tool at the
  right time

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Not a field of dreams and not what we see
today. Rather a grid of grids
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The medium is the message. ?Marshall McLuhan
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say
that the personal and social consequences of any
medium that is, of any extension of ourselves
result from the new scale that is introduced into
our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by
any new technology. ?Marshall McLuhan
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