SCMTME Week 1A: Provocations, plus social media
/// Lecture notes
// Part 1: Social Media Statistics
What we can't argue with: the children WE are going to teach (or our own children) are growing up in a remarkably different world then 20years ago.
We need to be aware their learning, communicating, interacting inside/outside class.
Open Learning
Disruptive technologies in music education
Stage 4 students - no choice.
We're NOT NORMAL : -) We should take our self from our comfort zone. Be ready for it
25% (2012) Aussie ppl have bachelor degree
27% (2012) ................. don't get to year 12
20% .............................get to year 12 but no further
= half finish high school
you're parents' educaitonal background affects!
what is learning like to the majority of students in Australia?
Our experience is not typical.
Not even half of total population of the world are active internet useres.
facebook rules the world $$$$$$$$$$
Oh I am not letting my kid have a smartphone... but I'm thinking that normal phones will be gone in few years
ipad is less than five years old...? I don't believe it
So kids nowadays lose TV rather than their phone... I'd lose my phone to keep my ipod classic. no music no life. not normal. proud of it : -)
We know that kids are using technology, we know that social media is becoming the most important way for our kids to communicate, to learn, to find stuff, to play.
What does it mean to education?
// Part 2:
Good thing about technology: learning anywhere anytime anyhow!
What's not good?
Filter bubble (Eli Pariser, 2011)
...very busy filtering (amazon suggesting things). THIS IS BAD?
your world view is unchallenged - filtered!
www.wired.com
PLN (personal learning environment) PLN (personal learning network)
everyone has their own way of learning but it's very limited to ceratin tools
TICKET TO SUCCESS: Get in to Harvard and then drop out. Shall we all drop out to become great innovating and inspiring teachers?
It is important that we innovate, try things and embrace mistakes.
So intersting.
// Brief notes
#1 Dimitri Chrstiakis: Media and Children
Exactly "三つ子の魂百まで" (Soul of a three-year-old lasts till hundred).Early experience is valid: brain size triples in the first two years of life.
Brain development in early years are rapid and steep.
Overstimulating possible? Harmful? Well...
Attention problems in schools. Rapid change of scenes.
No risk with educational programs.
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
System of current education and schooling: British Empire. Way to produce identical people. But we don't need it anymore. Current education become obsolete?
Leave kids with computers. Voila!Leave more kids with a computer but now with DNA stuff. Voila!
Get some grannie with the kids. Voila! #2
Kids don't need to be taught. They can figure it out themselves.
Learning should be a product of educational self-organization. If you allow educational process to self-organised, learning emerges
It’s not about making learn happen, it’s about letting it happe. The teacher sets the process in motion, and she stands back in all and watch as learning happens.
SOLE = Self Organizing Learning Environment
Broadband + Collaboration + Encouragement.
// logs from online chatting
1. How do we reconcile the two videos? Don't tey ocntradict one another?
I don't think they contradict. It's a matter of sequence.
2. Christakis' work isn't alone. Many researchers are now suggesting children should be screen-free until school age, and some suggest until 7 years. Is this realistic?
- I strogly agree with screen-free idea, but I understand it's unrealistic as well. But I do know that it IS POSSIBLE for parents to control/choose/filter what kids see. It's the matter of degree.
- what I also said in the chat - I once read an article saying that children shouldn't watch that make them think they think they understood - ARTICLE (Japanese). Unlike reading or listening, videos have a strong power than can overpower kids' imagination without them having experience of whatever they see. Imagination is what stimulates the cognitive development, and that imagination only comes from experience. If the experience is too much or too early for them, then they might take the experience as something they think they know but really they don't.
- What I also think... videos lack in multiple senses. Sense of touch, taste and smell. Analog (old-fashioned?) toys have all of them. E.g. Blocks ( you can touch, see, hear the clicking sound, maybe smell the paint/wood, and taste it by licking it)
3. If Mitra is right, and children can teach themselves extraordinary things with a computer and an internet connection, do we need teachers? Do we need schools?
- He gives an answer to that himself. We do need teachers and schools.
"learning as the product of educational self-organiziation
if you allow educational process to self-organised, learning emerges
it’s not about making learn happen, it’s about letting it happen
the teacher sets the process in motion, and she stands back in all and watch as learning happens"