10-Rep Learning ~ Teague's Tech Treks

Learning Technology & Tech Observations by Dr. Helen Teague

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Video Review of Constructivism and Constructionism

Here is an updated video review of the Constructivism and Constructionism Learning Theories.

The video features a Microsoft digital storytelling app for creating interactive presentation called Sway. Here is the Sway link if you would like to scroll through at your own pace: https://tinyurl.com/TeagueSwayPVP

Vimeo video link: https://vimeo.com/teaguetech/piagetvygotskypapert?share=copy

 

Please note: This is a video excerpt from a Webinar I gave for graduate students and presented onsite in Tampere, Finland and Dublin, Ireland. This is a very low-tech, summary version of a much longer conference presentation. Participant questions and discussion are edited and gaps may be present. The video has been edited for time and content. Some edits are choppy and will never win awards. 🙂

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ April 30

 

“… the original decision about how to use computers placed the teacher on a collision course with School’s system of control: As soon as she (the teacher) decided not to control the students, she took away School’s established way of controlling her. The question has moved from how power is distributed within the educational hierarchy to whether hierarchy to whether hierarchy is an appropriate mode of organization for education.”

~Seymour Papert, The Children’s Machine: Rethinking school in the age of the computer, 1993

 

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Reference

Papert, S. (1993). The Children’s Machine Rethinking school in the age of the computer. Basic Books.

 

 

 


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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ April 9

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Enduring Value In Online Courses & Beyond!

For our Students in Online & F2F courses, (such as those offered by PBS TeacherLine and GCU) subuilding enduring knowledge structures together provides collaborative value & deeper learning (McTighe & Willis, 2019; Papert & Harel, 1991).

Here’s how:

In resource share assignments, after posting in the LMS, invite students to also copy/paste their resources to a Class Community document (GDoc/Slides/Sheets, etc…).

At the end of the assignment, for students have co-constructed a comprehensive learning artifact of all their collaborative shares for enduring value and use in their current/future professional practice.

GCU Tweet Contest

 

Check out our latest enduring value share: https://tinyurl.com/TEC544Us

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ July 7

“Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which Edtech is placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.” ~Seymour Papert

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ October 7

“…deficiency becomes identity, and inevitably learning is transformed from that early free play and exploration of the world to an habitualized task.” Papert, Mindstorms, page 42

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One of the key ideas that emerged during research for last night’s webinar was that students need a return (or, for the fortunate ones), a continuation of exploration and play. Papert’s quote from Mindstorms still resonates. Here’s hoping that this weekend brings opportunity for all of us to play and explore and have fun.

 

 

 

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ September 23

Give yourself time is an absurdly obvious principle that falls equally under heuristics and mathetics. Yet school flagrantly contravenes it by its ways of chopping time … Seymour Papert, A Word for Learning, In Constructionism in Practice, by Yasmin Kafai and Mitchel Resnick

 

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ August 6

Seymour Papert Quote

“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” ~Seymour Papert

 

 

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ February 20 ~ Technocentrism

A favorite excerpt on technocentrism:

“Consider for a moment some questions that are “obviously” absurd. Does wood produce good houses? If I built a house out of wood and it fell down, would this show that wood does not produce good houses? Do hammers and saws produce good furniture? These betray themselves as technocentric questions by ignoring people and the elements only people can introduce: skill, design, aesthetics. Of course these examples are caricatures. In practice, hardly anyone carries technocentrism that far. Everyone realizes that it is carpenters who use wood, hammers, and saws to produce houses and furniture, and the quality of the product depends on the quality of their work. But when it comes to computers and LOGO, critics (and some practitioners as well) seem to move into abstractions and ask, ‘Is the computer good for the cognitive development of the child?’ and even ‘Does the computer (or LOGO or whatever) produce thinking skills?'” Seymour Papert in this ground-breaking article  (italics mine)

 

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Weekend Ed. Quotes ~ May 22

“You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.” Seymour Papert, MIT mathematician, educator, computer scientist.

From Designing Digitally, Inc.: http://www.designingdigitally.com/blog/2015/03/10-fascinating-quotes-about-online-learning#ixzz3YSZTKR2M

 

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