10-Rep Learning ~ Teague's Tech Treks

Learning Technology & Tech Observations by Dr. Helen Teague

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Tech Infusion and its Potential to Mediate Online Identities

A recent ice storm caused my retreat from the roadways and outside activities. My indoor inertia was replaced with the indulgence of re-reading my online team process journals. These journals include observations, quotes of team members, ideas for future research, links to current research, and a few doodles. I remain committed to the learning power which emanates from doodles, but time to search for cooraborating research eludes me.

As I turned the paper pages of the journals a quote from an online research team member caught my attention. Our team, led by Dr. Eric Hamilton featured a conversation with Dr. Paulina Sameshima.

Dr. Sameshima’s dialogue during this particular meeting addressed how learners templatize thought for neural efficiency. Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Sameshima catelyzed a discussion on meaning-making.  My research teammate, in response said,

“We bifurcate on default”

My margin notes then echoed my astonishment at the level of understanding engendered from my research teammate. I wondered if the technological affordances of a synchronous meeting held within a communal space simultaneously shared through the online affordance of Fuze amid the separated environments of each of our individual locations coalescenced and liberated insights such as my teammate shared.

“We bifurcate on default”

There is a protection that emerges for online exchanges whether they be confined to formal learning spaces of online courses, webinars, and synchronous team meetings or informal learning spaces of chats, status updates, benchmark updates and the like. 

Both online participants and facilitators for new identities situated within the online community (Brown, et al. 1989; Ito, Kafai, Teague, 2017; Turkle, Wenger and Wenger, 2016). We may become a new version of ourself, embodying attributes of the self that are restricted or confined in the world of our face-to-face interactions. Through the participatory spontaneity of online discourse coupled with the identity safeguards of our physical environments, insights are formed and shared. Growth branches and, as Vygotsky wrote, this development precedes learning. 

 

Permenant Link: https://tinyurl.com/ParticipatoryOnlineIdentity 


Sameshima, P. (2007). Seeing red: A pedagogy of parallax: An epistolary bildungsroman on artful scholarly inquiry. Cambria Press. Amazon

 

Background polling supplemental research: As of January 2014: •  90 percent of American adults have a cell phone. •  58 percent of those have a smartphone (the number soars to nearly 80 percent for those between 18 and 49). •  42 percent have a tablet.1 It’s a truly different, more informed and more connected world. SOURCE: 1 – http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/

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Helen Teague Dissertation

APA Citation:
Teague, H. L. (2017). A mixed methods study of online course facilitators’ perceptions of mobile technology, design, and TPaCK affordances (Order No. 10590840). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ Pepperdine University – SCELC; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1889540301). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29276.39044

Please access my dissertation from ResearchGate, ProQuest or this blog post link

A mixed methods study of online course facilitators’ perceptions of mobile technology, design, and TPaCK affordances

 

ResearchGate Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316714796_A_mixed_methods_study_of_online_course_facilitators%27_perceptions_of_mobile_technology_design_and_TPaCK_affordances

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GSEP Student Research Symposium ~ June 18

Excited to present “Intergenerational Digital Storytelling Goes Virtual, Mobile, and Global” at Pepperdine’s GSEP Student Research Symposium.

GSEP Student Research Symposium

http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/

GSEP Sign

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ October 3

“Through engagement, but also imagination and alignment, our identities come to reflect the landscape in which we live and our experience of it. Identity becomes a system, as it were.” (Wenger, 2010: 185)

WengerQuotePhotoDesignBy Helen Teague

 

 

 

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Quote Source: Wenger E (2010) Communities of practice and social learning systems: The career of a concept. In: Blackmore C (ed.) Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice. Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp. 179–198.

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Brian-Computer Interface Videos

My Learning Partner gave an excellent presentation on the Brian-Computer Interface (BCI). The central element in each BCI is a translation algorithm that converts electrophysiological input from the user into output that controls external devices.

—BCI operation depends on effective interaction between two adaptive controllers, the user who encodes his or her commands in the electrophysiological input provided to the BCI, and the BCI which recognizes the commands contained in the input and expresses them in device control.

Here are a few of the videos she highlighted.

Brain-Computer Music Interface

Brain Controlled Wheelchair

Virtual Hand Demo

Smart Headband for ADHD Improvement

 

Absolutely amazing the advances that are being created!!

 

To learn more:

—Leuthardt, E.C., Schalk, G., Moran, D.W., Wolpaw, J.R., Ojemann, J.G. (2006). Brain Computer Interface. U.S. Patent No. 7,120,486 B2. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

—Lim CG, Lee TS, Guan C, Fung DSS, Zhao Y, Teng SSW, et al. (2012) A Brain-Computer Interface Based Attention Training Program for Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e46692. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046692

—Wolpaw, J.R., Birbaumer, N., Heetderks, W. J., McFarland, D. J., Pecjham, P. H., Schalk, G., Donchin, E., Quatrano, L. A., Robinson, C. J., Vaughan, T. M. (2000). Brain–Computer Interface Technology: A Review of the First International Meeting. IEEE transactions on rehabilitation engineering, 8 (2), 164 – 173.

—Wolpaw, J.R. and McFarland, D. J. (2004). Control of a two-dimensional movement signal by a noninvasive brain-computer interface in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(51), 17489-17854.

 

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QR-Coded Survey for Your Completion

Want to be part of real-time research? I sure would appreciate your answer on this anonymous, online, 1-question survey. The survey question is: What technological object has had the most transforming influence on your life?
Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/teaguetech  (Feel free to share the link.)
You may also access the survey using this QR Code:

Survey726qrcode
You can see all responses upon completion.
Thanks!

 

 

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This survey is part of coursework in Emerging Technologies course, EDLT 726

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This survey is part of coursework in Emerging Technologies course, EDLT 726

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Technology and the Promise of Enchanted Objects

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur Clarke, quoted by David Rose in Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things

David Rose describes the balancing act between human-to-computer interactions in his book, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.  Rose, an MIT Media lab scientist, begins Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things with an intriguing question: In 50 years, what will computers be called?

One answer might address a McLuhan-esque perspective of enchanted objects as extension of ourselves. Another answer might be Asimov’s approach of subservient worker to overseer. Rose asks the question, “Are computers more human or are humans more computerized?” I think as technology becomes more invisible that there might not be any name used at all, but, I was never one to name my car.

Rose clusters his discussion of enchanted objects in six categories of promised benefit: Omniscience, Telepathy, Safe-Keeping, Immortality, Teleportation, and Expression. He writes that between 50 billion – 1 trillion devices will be connected to the Internet in the current decade, resulting in a $14.4 trillion economic impact. His website, Enchanted Objects displays some of the most enduring and enchanting devices. I wanted to see what my colleagues on LinkedIn, PBS TeacherLine, and Facebook would choose as the technology with the most enchanting and enduring legacy.** I designed a one-question survey to collect their responses. Here is the survey link: http://tinyurl.com/teaguetech

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For mobile access, I created a QR-code for my survey. Survey Responses confirm Rose’s contention that we rely on, and perhaps revere, the enchanted objects in our lives. Among outlier responses was one from my dad, who at 88 years, pitched the innovation of air-conditioning as most enchanting because it “changed everything.” People shifted their routines and schedules since they were not confined by avoidance of the blazing sun. Another outlier, a colleague in Singapore, reflected pride of enchantment by listing his website.

The responses in my unofficial survey parallel the often contradictory aspect of dialectic interplay.  We need these objects but resent their intrusion and our own dependence on them. Rose writes an eloquent meditation on the effect of our “interruptive” gadgets. He writes, “I want the computer-human interface to be an empowering and positive experience-to minimize the interruption, annoyance, and distraction of our so-called smartphones and glass-faced tablets” (p. 3). Click here  to discover Rose’s choice for the least “interruptive” enchanted object.

Another instructive section of the book describes the design process progression of items on their way to Enchanted Object status. According to Rose, an object vaults to the status of enchanted when it empowers rather than weakens its user. Rose describes this ascension when tools align with our thought processes and when they ascend to become the storytellers of our lives. For example, iPhones record our everyday calls, numbers, photos, and notes. These become our daily stories. Director Cesar Kuriyama even used his iPhone to take a daily one-second video and collected them into this TED talk.

Time-traveling away from its 2014 publication date, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things could be the second volume in the trilogy between The Design of Everyday Things and Convergence Culture. It is available as a dead tree book, Google Book, Simon and Schuster ebook, Amazon Kindle book, and an Audible book recording. This book is a thought-provoking book and I recommend it.

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This blog post and survey are part of coursework in Emerging Technologies course, EDLT 726

References

Rose, D. (2014). Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things. Simon
and Schuster.

Link to this Book Report Blog Post: http://tinyurl.com/TeagueEDLT726

Teague Survey Link: http://tinyurl.com/teaguetech

 

 

**Optimistically, I also posted information about my survey on this blog to invite the few people not related to me who read also this blog.

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ June 6

“The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider” ~Vygotsky, 1985
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Quote Source: Thorsteinsson, G., & Page, T. (2007, June). Computer Mediated Communication as a Collaborative Learning Environment for In-Service Teacher’s Education. In Proceedings of FISTE-A Future Way for In-Service Teacher Training Across Europe–Dissemination Seminar, Academia Nationala De Educatie Fizica Si Sport–Bucharest, Romania. page 131
also in Anderson, Anderson, T. (2004). Teaching in an online learning context. Theory and practice of online learning, 273-294.

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Weekend Ed. Quote ~ May 29

Asked once if he would have done things differently if he could live life over, he replied with characteristic candour: “All I can say is, I did my best. This was the job I undertook, I did my best, and I could not have done more in the circumstances. What people think of it, I have to leave to them. It is of no great consequence.
What is of consequence is I did my best. ~Lee Kuan Yew

 

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Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/lee-kuan-yew-singapores-founding-father-dies-aged-91-201#sthash.Wjea408c.dpuf

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