Teaching, resources, references: Notes on Chris Debe video conference recording

March 31, 2007

Notes on Chris Debe video conference recording

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Chirs Debe

new knowledge based world
- global
- tech drive
- changing
weird tech
- what is the golden eggs
- his works
Learning styles
- old school
  - sensory
  - personality
- media based
  - millennial
  - not age based
    - based on what you do day to day
  - together
    - online solving problems
  - + - play looks like
    - 21C work
      - play - process good
  - multi-tasking
    - good
    - bad
  - EX
    - cisco
      - meeting and need knowledge
      - new IM to people on a PDA
Distrubuted
- some times online
- some times face to face
- mentoring
- how to learning
  - not content
- coaching
- doing and learning
- relationship are distrubuted
- What is the role of teacher
New Interfaces for Distributed learning
- world to the desktop
  - internet now
    - email
    - web
    - chats
- Multi-User Virtual Environments
  - Alice is WonderLand
  - MUVE
- These two are emerging
- Ubiquitous
  - not tied to the desktop
MUVE
- avators
- digital artifacts
- virtual world
- reminds people of games
  - actual content is not great
  - enagement is good
- games
  - scoring
  - good and bad
  - not always postive
- games like
  - NSF
    - 4 million $$$
  - not actually game
  - science school
    - what is hard
      - enquiry
      - this was the focus
      - problem finding not problem solving
  - bottom third of the class
  - what teachers find hard
River City Video
- game like look
- in history
  - with problems
- use 21C knowledge
- Real-time 3D
  - objects
    - click
    - html links
    - web browser in the enviroment
- Video Doc
  - screen captures
  - interviews
    - with Key points as text
  - student using
  - students interviews
- Work in teams
  - illness
    - not just one solution
      - complex problems
  - compare worked at the end
  - gap better high performing and low performing closes
  - research
    - data
      - survery
      - interviews
      - logs of students actions
        hadn't thought about this !!!
- Questions
  - Older students and workplace
    - interface needs to be simple
      - adult master in 15 minutes
      - kid in 3 minutes
    - What is good for ?
      - eg not good for word processing
      - might be only good for building motivation
      - for experience based learning
        complex
        
        on the fly to sort out
        
        workplace skills
        often not foundation skills
  - Development time and $$$
    - rapid development
    - River City
      - bleeding edge
        that is why it took so much time
      - What took so long
        research
        not the development work to build
        
        $$$$
      - feels it could be re-used
        by changing the scripts
        
        by changing the rules
        
        ? what exist that could be re-used
        
        more we develop more can be re-used
        eg web quests
      - Not as complex as a commerical game
    - Key Elements
      - not just about the medium
  - Skill VET based how to o the social stuff
    - evidence
      - lab books
        classic
      - logs
        say
        
        do
        
        timestamped
    - like what they do in life not in class
    - Design the rest of how they teach
- Outcomes
  - guide inquiry
  - mentoring relations
  - collobarative learning
  - + situated learning
    - eg intership
      - engaged in a practice
      - move from the edge as noivce and center
    - classroom good for reflection
      - not good for sorting out complex
  - Learning Community
    - teacher not dowloading info
    - can be f2 and arcoss distances
  - tech is the catalyst
Ubiquitous
- handheld
  - wireless
  - smart objects and intelligent contexts
Mystery @ MIT
- not his project
- staff and students being pioson
  - 3 hours to report back on the problem
- move around
  - meeting virtual people
    - depends on the rol eg report or engineer
      - each time on has part of the problem
- drill holes to explore
- During information out of complex situation
  - eg experience and get information
- Knowledge is shared
- Knowledge is more acrossed to Real Activity
- situated more like result in transfer of knowledge
  - more real like than classroom
    - ? test was only better different games
- Mobile Phone will be space this happens in
- We take away powerful tools

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