Extension topics: Distance education

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Extension topics Distance education hybrid
classrooms

• TLT 406
• Summer, 2009
• Dr. Hammond
• Session 9

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Housekeeping

• Video assignment fielded a lot of questions
  anything else out there?
• Loaners Need my stuff back!
• Course evaluations Need a volunteer
• WTL Looked at about half the class so far
  comments are in wiki page. Will grade sometime
  after next Friday.
• Lab staff names / days / times email ahead of
  time

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Today, we look to the future

• Or perhaps not
• More than one-third of all high schools have
  students enrolled in distance ed, circa 2003
• Almost 4,000 K-12 students in PA enrolled in
  PAVCS
• University of Phoenix Online Campus has more than
  150,000 students circa 2006
• Perhaps the future is here already.

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Lets live in the future!

• 20 minutes of online learning, via
• Video Ustream.tv
• Video streamed to a URL
• Slideshow Google Present
• Google Docs version of ppt
• Text chat find me any way you can
• In Google Present
• Gchat
• Skype
• Ustream

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What are we talking about?

• Many names Distance ed, hybrid classrooms,
  virtual schooling, etc.
• Some combination of place- and time-shifting,
  grouping and sub-grouping
• Our dividing line either completely online or a
  hybrid of online and face-to-face

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Presentation
• Feedback
• Resources / learner support
• Grouping

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Email
• Discussion board
• Text chat / IM
• Video conference
• Audio
• Presentation
• Feedback
• Resources / learner support
• Grouping

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Presentation
• Slideware
• Video
• Podcasts
• (combos of the above)
• Feedback
• Resources / learner support
• Grouping

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Presentation
• Feedback
• Via communication tools, plus
• Markup of student work
• Remote access to desktops?
• Resources / learner support
• Grouping

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Presentation
• Feedback
• Resources / learner support
• Course documents
• Links
• Help functions / tutorials
• Third-party assistants (and/or peers)
• Grouping

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Whats happening online?

• Communication
• Presentation
• Feedback
• Resources / learner support
• Grouping
• Associating sub-sets of students
• Placing students in extra-mural groups
• All of the above functions are repeated within
  groups

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Whats not happening online?

• Whole class dialog?
• Asynchronously, yes Discussion boards, blogs
• Synchronously With the right software and/or
  techniques
• Teaching one-on-one, hands-on (e.g.,
  manipulatives)
• Attending to students social / emotional
  development?
• ?

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Tools to teach learn online

• Systems (LMS, CMS, OLE)
• Ex Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle
• Look inside our Blackboard coursewhats there?
  Whats not there?
• Teacher platforms
• Ex Website, blog, wiki, Moodle
• Look at my wiki (hammond.seedwiki.com)whats
  there? Whats not there?
• Web 2.0 toolbox
• Google tools, JamGlue, PrimaryAccess, etc.

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Online vs. F2F

• In a traditional classroom, what does a teacher
  do? How does a teacher act?
• In an online environment, what does a teacher do?
  How does a teacher act?

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Online vs. F2F

• In a traditional classroom, what does a student
  do? How does a student act?
• In an online environment, what does a student do?
  How does a student act?

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Return to classroom
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De-brief

• How was the experience? Any difficulties?
• Content Anything to review or discuss?
• Advice Should I do this againor not? Would you
  want to have class sessions like this in future
  courses?

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More futuristic talk

• The number of Internet devices in...
• 1984 1,0001992 1,000,0002008 1,000,000,000
• The number of text messages sent and received
  every day exceeds the population of Earth.
• It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million
  people it took Facebook 2 years to reach 50
  million.
• A week's worth of news in the New York Times now
  is more than a lifetime of news in the 18th
  century.
• 4 exabytes of unique information will be
  generated this year - more than the previous
  5,000 years of information.1 exabyte 1
  billion gigabytes

Anne Collier, NetFamilyNews.org
ConnectSafely.org
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What are young people doing (learning) in there?

• Learning social norms skills
• Strategizing
• Negotiation
• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Risk assessment
• ID exploration/role-play

• Information gathering
• Social/political activism
• Sharing/producing music
• Producing editing videos
• Writing blogs
• Designing/customizing
• Writing software code
• Promotion marketing

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What else are they doing in there?

• Neutral or negative
• Seeking validation
• Competing in a popularity contest
• Venting
• Showing off
• Embarrassing themselves

• Pulling pranks
• Getting even
• Harassing
• Making threats
• Defaming
• Impersonating
• Blackmailing

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Why its different online

• Disinhibition Lack of visual cues reduces
  empathy
• Persistence searchability Net as permanent
  searchable archive
• Replication Ability to copy and paste from
  anywhere, to anywhere
• Scalability High potential visibility of actions
• Invisible audiences You never know whos
  watchingmight be no one, might be your neighbor
• Blurring of public and private Uncertain
  boundaries

Source danah boyd Taken out of Context, 2008,
via Anne Collier
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A little perspective?

• I believe we are living at the moment of the
  greatest change in human communication in human
  history. We now have the capability of
  communicating instantly, globally. This is the
  time to be engaged in the work of literacy."
• --Richard Miller, English, Rutgers University
• Nobody is as smart as everybody.
• --Kevin Kelly, founding exec. editor, Wired
• The moment were living through is the largest
  increase in expressive capability in human
  history.
• --Clay Shirky, author, consultant, pundit

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Teens reflection on social media

• Yourcurtainsareugly The online world is not
  separate from physical reality. I have the same
  responsibilities online as a citizen, member of a
  society, and human that I do anywhere else. My
  online existence would not be sustainable without
  my continued physical existence. My physical
  existence is connected with more thoughts and
  ideas with the Internet. It is as if my eyes and
  ears and mouth can go anywhere in the world to
  communicate with others or look through
  information resources."

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Ones child impact, aided by social media
"Earlier this year, as I was listening to a
presentation by 11-year-old community volunteer
and blogger Laura Stockman about the service
projects she carries out in her hometown outside
Buffalo, N.Y, an audience member asked where she
got her ideas for her good work.... Her response
blew me away 'I ask my readers,' she said. I
doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that
answer. But if you look at the ClustrMap on
Laura's blog, 25 Days to Make a Difference,
you'll see that Laura's readers - each
represented by a little red dot are all over
the world. She has a network of connections,
people from almost every continent and country,
who share their own stories of service or
volunteer to assist Laura in her work. -
Will Richardson, 2008
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Conclusions

• Teaching online is a different space
• Teaching in the F2F classroom is impacted by
  online life
• therefore, we have to bridge the two worlds
• but we have few/limited models for how to do
  this, who to be, what to expect

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On the one hand
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On the other hand Joes Non-Netbook
Joe fellow students atScience Leadership
AcademyPhiladelphia
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Good luck!
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And what about those cups?

• Classroom management
• Parent-teacher conference conversation piece
• and

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checkback

• Questions?
• Who is handling the course evaluations?

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Between now and next Friday

• Reading SLR, Ch. 12 (Trends in technology and
  media Looking ahead)
• Do any remaining WTL that you want me to consider
  when grading
• Complete WebQuest, submit URL via BB