Life is condensed to moments
"Moments of Evaluation"
How do you learn a you perform a skill?
Skill is a dynamic activity - can change from day to day - quality varies.
The definition of what constitutes expert skill is fluid.
Anders Erickson
He writes about expertise
Skill increases at 45* angle and then ability levels off
Maybe we need some outside energy to push it up to another level (coaching, mentoring)
Talent is Overrated
How is skill developed? Skilled ability is not a thing. It's a concept - a verb, not a noun.
There is something more than adaptive expertise.
Faith -> Virtue -> Knowledge -> Temperance -> Patience -> Brotherly Kindness -> Godliness
-> Charity (a gift) -> Humility -> Diligence
These are all connected to skill development = GODLINESS
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
20 Jan 2010:
tokbox.com
Asynchronous video can create a relationship
Every week there's video feedback from the teacher - this is closer than they thought.
You need to hire people who are caring, genuine people - students will pick up on it immediately.
"Whatever you've got, it enhances the relationship."
It's the immediacy, the visual, the connections that come with body language.
Face-to-face isn't best for all things and distance education isn't best for all situation - this was something that blended the best of both and allows people to connect.
Student teachers using technology to supplement teaching.
Do the principles hold beyond just the person.
What is the time issue? People/students appreciate instant feedback.
It can actually be better/faster to give video feedback.
What about bandwidth? Especially Hawaii connecting to more remote islands.
BYU Hawaii Blackboard
Using tutors instead of professors to bridge/bolster student learning.
Introduction form the professor, intro from the student, and then introductions between students
Streaming recorder to a server somewhere - webcam somewhere else in the world - it's stored on the server somewhere else. Java app records to desktop and then uploads.
Some people get more responses than others - could be perceived as a weakness.
Instructions to watch the most recent 2 posts and then discuss what person A and person B said before you comment yourself.
Face to face can be dominated by students who talk a lot; in contrast, students express their ideas and you hear every single person and each person gets a comment.
We do not redeisgn classes.
Plug all lesson plans into Blackboard and then identify what doesn't work in this like facetoface.
Responsibility is on the reader to know what is legit, not on the writer to cite references.
One big issue is perceptions of security - particularly with regard to video tests.
1) 20% of on-campus courses need to be taught online.
2) Helping students off-campus prepare to come on campus
Asynchronous video can create a relationship
Every week there's video feedback from the teacher - this is closer than they thought.
You need to hire people who are caring, genuine people - students will pick up on it immediately.
"Whatever you've got, it enhances the relationship."
It's the immediacy, the visual, the connections that come with body language.
Face-to-face isn't best for all things and distance education isn't best for all situation - this was something that blended the best of both and allows people to connect.
Student teachers using technology to supplement teaching.
Do the principles hold beyond just the person.
What is the time issue? People/students appreciate instant feedback.
It can actually be better/faster to give video feedback.
What about bandwidth? Especially Hawaii connecting to more remote islands.
BYU Hawaii Blackboard
Using tutors instead of professors to bridge/bolster student learning.
Introduction form the professor, intro from the student, and then introductions between students
Streaming recorder to a server somewhere - webcam somewhere else in the world - it's stored on the server somewhere else. Java app records to desktop and then uploads.
Some people get more responses than others - could be perceived as a weakness.
Instructions to watch the most recent 2 posts and then discuss what person A and person B said before you comment yourself.
Face to face can be dominated by students who talk a lot; in contrast, students express their ideas and you hear every single person and each person gets a comment.
We do not redeisgn classes.
Plug all lesson plans into Blackboard and then identify what doesn't work in this like facetoface.
Responsibility is on the reader to know what is legit, not on the writer to cite references.
One big issue is perceptions of security - particularly with regard to video tests.
1) 20% of on-campus courses need to be taught online.
2) Helping students off-campus prepare to come on campus
Friday, November 6, 2009
6 Nov 2009: John Seeley Brown
Group Study - Social Learning
Gradepoint average = predictors of "success"
We don't seem to ask deep questions about waht leads to sccess
The best market right now is for home schooling
People are desperate for content
Univ of Phoenix owned by Apollo (3B to 8B in the last 3 months)
There is a growing hunger right now for tools
People are fed up with what is not happening
Most universities don't enable teachers to help sutdents
BYU is great because it focuses on students
How important will certificates be in the future?
Instead, we'll be asked to show a portfolio of what has been done.
Render public our best stuff
People will want to know your ideas and what you've written through a highly intelligent conversation
"I've never looked at a transcript. I hire people based on what they've done. You learn in school how to play the game."
"The best kind of education is travel."
"Powerful byproduct of an LDS mission is the travel and extracurricular experience. You come back a changed person."
How do we institutionalize afterschool programs?
If you want to specialize in a certain area, travel to the place where the gurus are.
Worry less about certificates and degrees and more about what you're learning.
"personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning."
* Submit articles to be published
* Mitch = take photos of his homes
* Check to see who else is doing this open ed resourcses for development?
* Beta release
World of Warcraft
- A massively multi-player online game (MMOG)
- Everquest
- Virtual spaces which both define and are defined by the players who inhabit them
- Social spaces where issues of community, meaning, and values are negotiated
- Sites of joint collective agency
* Classic meaning of community of practice
- joint work through face to face work
- average age is 28
- multigenerational, three generations (grandparents, parents, and kids)
* "The edge" = is often referred to as a knowledge economy
* To see the value of games, don't just look at the core of the game, but pay close attention to the 'social life' on the edge of the game.
* Manageing Knowledge in Creation Spaces
- Structure of filtering and feedback loops
- Problem: Knowledge is constantly changing
- Problem: too much information to reliably manage
- Guild structures allow for small groups (20-200) to test, filter, and disseminate information
- Mantra of WoW: "If I ain't learning, it ain't fun"
- Wikis, blogs, databases, blizzard forums, videos (tens of thousands of new entries a day)
- Helps players gain and create knowledge exponentially faster
Layering of Information Management
* Intra-guild communication
- Officers/Leaders to members
- Performance reviews
* guild to Guild communication
- High level strategy/discussion
- Joint problem solving
- Shared reousrces
* Dissemination and "bragging rights"
Dashboards and After Action Reviews
- WoW is way too complicated to play without complex analysis tools and dashboards
- These dashboards are nearly always ahndcrafted by each player & key to masterful play
- Static images are hugely simplified
- Will then show you waht they are like in real action
- 360 review: leaders are evaluated on same level as the others
- Born gamers: I want to be measured & I want to craft how I'm measured (last thing that employers ever expected to hear)
- People are playing through their dashboards, not through graphics, and these are largely constructed by themselves
- Exponential Learning (Palo Alto Resrach Center - PARC)- Trust-based INTERACTIONS amond environments are integral for Exponential Learning (Optimizing eh most expensive resource - people)
Triangle = Networks of imaginagion
1) Networked imagination (top of triangle = emergent from collective action)
2) Networks of Practice (bottom left of triangle = networks of practice)
3) Communities of Interest (bottom right of triangle = communities of interest)
State of joint in-dwelling
Platform of tacit knowledge across a virtual domain
Revlutionizing Yahoo and Google
A manager's job is to facilitate the poacher
find the best skll in the area - vote with your feet
people with the right project (seduction is okay and even encouraged)
you go there because you think that you can learn more there than any place in the universe
Every person in Google now has dashboards
Render public your knowledge and be accountable to what you say you'd do
Kindle (underline and annotate anything you read)
Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation (Cheif of Confusion)
Gradepoint average = predictors of "success"
We don't seem to ask deep questions about waht leads to sccess
The best market right now is for home schooling
People are desperate for content
Univ of Phoenix owned by Apollo (3B to 8B in the last 3 months)
There is a growing hunger right now for tools
People are fed up with what is not happening
Most universities don't enable teachers to help sutdents
BYU is great because it focuses on students
How important will certificates be in the future?
Instead, we'll be asked to show a portfolio of what has been done.
Render public our best stuff
People will want to know your ideas and what you've written through a highly intelligent conversation
"I've never looked at a transcript. I hire people based on what they've done. You learn in school how to play the game."
"The best kind of education is travel."
"Powerful byproduct of an LDS mission is the travel and extracurricular experience. You come back a changed person."
How do we institutionalize afterschool programs?
If you want to specialize in a certain area, travel to the place where the gurus are.
Worry less about certificates and degrees and more about what you're learning.
"personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning."
* Submit articles to be published
* Mitch = take photos of his homes
* Check to see who else is doing this open ed resourcses for development?
* Beta release
World of Warcraft
- A massively multi-player online game (MMOG)
- Everquest
- Virtual spaces which both define and are defined by the players who inhabit them
- Social spaces where issues of community, meaning, and values are negotiated
- Sites of joint collective agency
* Classic meaning of community of practice
- joint work through face to face work
- average age is 28
- multigenerational, three generations (grandparents, parents, and kids)
* "The edge" = is often referred to as a knowledge economy
* To see the value of games, don't just look at the core of the game, but pay close attention to the 'social life' on the edge of the game.
* Manageing Knowledge in Creation Spaces
- Structure of filtering and feedback loops
- Problem: Knowledge is constantly changing
- Problem: too much information to reliably manage
- Guild structures allow for small groups (20-200) to test, filter, and disseminate information
- Mantra of WoW: "If I ain't learning, it ain't fun"
- Wikis, blogs, databases, blizzard forums, videos (tens of thousands of new entries a day)
- Helps players gain and create knowledge exponentially faster
Layering of Information Management
* Intra-guild communication
- Officers/Leaders to members
- Performance reviews
* guild to Guild communication
- High level strategy/discussion
- Joint problem solving
- Shared reousrces
* Dissemination and "bragging rights"
Dashboards and After Action Reviews
- WoW is way too complicated to play without complex analysis tools and dashboards
- These dashboards are nearly always ahndcrafted by each player & key to masterful play
- Static images are hugely simplified
- Will then show you waht they are like in real action
- 360 review: leaders are evaluated on same level as the others
- Born gamers: I want to be measured & I want to craft how I'm measured (last thing that employers ever expected to hear)
- People are playing through their dashboards, not through graphics, and these are largely constructed by themselves
- Exponential Learning (Palo Alto Resrach Center - PARC)- Trust-based INTERACTIONS amond environments are integral for Exponential Learning (Optimizing eh most expensive resource - people)
Triangle = Networks of imaginagion
1) Networked imagination (top of triangle = emergent from collective action)
2) Networks of Practice (bottom left of triangle = networks of practice)
3) Communities of Interest (bottom right of triangle = communities of interest)
State of joint in-dwelling
Platform of tacit knowledge across a virtual domain
Revlutionizing Yahoo and Google
A manager's job is to facilitate the poacher
find the best skll in the area - vote with your feet
people with the right project (seduction is okay and even encouraged)
you go there because you think that you can learn more there than any place in the universe
Every person in Google now has dashboards
Render public your knowledge and be accountable to what you say you'd do
Kindle (underline and annotate anything you read)
Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation (Cheif of Confusion)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
22 Oct 2009: Mary Cook "More Fit for the Kingdom, More Used Would I Be"
What choices are helping me to be more fit for the kingdom?
How has the Lord used me for his purposes?
How can I do better?
Through agency we can make many choices to be better teachers and better parents.
Never overestimate your abilities; never underestimate what the Lord can do with your life.
We are here to build the kingdom of God
You will become a great asset to your family, your church and your community
Focus on character, conduct and citizenship.
As teachers, we have an incredibe influence in the community.
Choose the skills you wan to focus on.
D&C 88: Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you -
WHAT? Things which are at home, things which are abroad, the wars and perplexities of the world; we are to learn as much as we can
WHY? That you may be prepared when I send you again for the calling with which I have called you
How to find out:
Patriarchal blessing
Influence of teaching on motherhood
maternal education is closely tied to maternal sensitivity
strongest and most consistent predictor of a child's emotional, social, and intellectual devpmt
we are in the business of educating future mothers
sister cook never had her own biological children
Elder L. Tom Perry asked Sister Dalton to emphasize what we should teach
recognize that motherhood is a sacred role given by God
we must be those righteous role models so our children know and learn these skills
respect, cooking, cleaning
she was assigned to mongolia just after russians pulled out; just living took a great portion of my day
The more education someone has, the more likely to gain a testimony, serve in church callings, serve in leadership callings
Her husband: managing director of the PEF
In order to be a leader in the church, you need to have discretionary time!
10% of bishops were graduates of PEF
"They're sending missionaries to Mongolia? This must be the end of the world?"
I was the key to open b/c of education skills (esp in special ed), but my husband was the one to open door with all the govt leaders (volunteered in govt) - one year later they opened the door for missionary work later. He became mission president there. (Gerald Rogers, Natalie Romrell)
General Asst Controller at Ford, CPA (but never practiced) - Arthur Anderson doing accounting in Mongolia
Learn how to teach teachers to be better teachers
Do whatever possible to give praise wherever I see it
Cultivate love and righteousness
Be an instrument in His hands
It is our unique opportunity to serve in the community and be an influence for good
Alma 36
Title of Liberty
As teachers, we must build our own titles of liberty.
We must be free from spot.
We must raise our banner.
How many teachers have criminal records?
Our banner is to raise the eyes of others as they see the integrity of church members.
We must know the doctrines and clarify truth.
More fit for the kingdom, more used will I be.
51% of people interviewed don't know about Mormons
47% don't have a favorable view
31% view Mormons as Christians
My impressions:
Help me to know thy will, Heavenly Father. I will serve where you want me to be. Help me to know when to get pregnant. Help me to be open. I will serve where you want me to be. Help me cultivate the skills you want me to have. Help me offer the best gift I can - my gift, my unique abilities, my personality, my will, my heart. I will place these on the altar, dear Father.
We need to go to the temple
We need to read the scriptures more
We need to say our prayers with more clarity and direction
We need to be more financially fit
I need to be more prayerful as I seek direction about how to spend my time, talents, money
Listen First
Know the Doctrine (especially the facts! and live the facts!)
Live the Standard
Be Good Neighbors (What have I done kind for someone today?
Open our Mouths (Declare, Testify, Show/Be belief)
Extend Invitations (Include, Open up, Share)
Be Bodl, But Not Overbearing
Integrity (wholeness/completeness of what we know and what we do)
Be on your guard (sexual involvement with students? it's crazy! be on your guard)
People are not living virtuous lives - they need to learn this from teachers in schools!
We cannot teach religion in schools
But, we can make our own banner
We can be a good example and live what we believe
Stand where you stand
Certificates can help because they might acknowledge you more
Those who know, know - you won't need degrees for the smartest of people
We need degrees for those who don't know
Education of any and every type will help you be more used by the Lord
be a humble servant and you will be more used by the Lord
How great reason have we to rejoice!
Could we have know that, when we started from this land (of Bountiful, of Provo) that we would see such great blessings?
How has the Lord used me for his purposes?
How can I do better?
Through agency we can make many choices to be better teachers and better parents.
Never overestimate your abilities; never underestimate what the Lord can do with your life.
We are here to build the kingdom of God
You will become a great asset to your family, your church and your community
Focus on character, conduct and citizenship.
As teachers, we have an incredibe influence in the community.
Choose the skills you wan to focus on.
D&C 88: Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you -
WHAT? Things which are at home, things which are abroad, the wars and perplexities of the world; we are to learn as much as we can
WHY? That you may be prepared when I send you again for the calling with which I have called you
How to find out:
Patriarchal blessing
Influence of teaching on motherhood
maternal education is closely tied to maternal sensitivity
strongest and most consistent predictor of a child's emotional, social, and intellectual devpmt
we are in the business of educating future mothers
sister cook never had her own biological children
Elder L. Tom Perry asked Sister Dalton to emphasize what we should teach
recognize that motherhood is a sacred role given by God
we must be those righteous role models so our children know and learn these skills
respect, cooking, cleaning
she was assigned to mongolia just after russians pulled out; just living took a great portion of my day
The more education someone has, the more likely to gain a testimony, serve in church callings, serve in leadership callings
Her husband: managing director of the PEF
In order to be a leader in the church, you need to have discretionary time!
10% of bishops were graduates of PEF
"They're sending missionaries to Mongolia? This must be the end of the world?"
I was the key to open b/c of education skills (esp in special ed), but my husband was the one to open door with all the govt leaders (volunteered in govt) - one year later they opened the door for missionary work later. He became mission president there. (Gerald Rogers, Natalie Romrell)
General Asst Controller at Ford, CPA (but never practiced) - Arthur Anderson doing accounting in Mongolia
Learn how to teach teachers to be better teachers
Do whatever possible to give praise wherever I see it
Cultivate love and righteousness
Be an instrument in His hands
It is our unique opportunity to serve in the community and be an influence for good
Alma 36
Title of Liberty
As teachers, we must build our own titles of liberty.
We must be free from spot.
We must raise our banner.
How many teachers have criminal records?
Our banner is to raise the eyes of others as they see the integrity of church members.
We must know the doctrines and clarify truth.
More fit for the kingdom, more used will I be.
51% of people interviewed don't know about Mormons
47% don't have a favorable view
31% view Mormons as Christians
My impressions:
Help me to know thy will, Heavenly Father. I will serve where you want me to be. Help me to know when to get pregnant. Help me to be open. I will serve where you want me to be. Help me cultivate the skills you want me to have. Help me offer the best gift I can - my gift, my unique abilities, my personality, my will, my heart. I will place these on the altar, dear Father.
We need to go to the temple
We need to read the scriptures more
We need to say our prayers with more clarity and direction
We need to be more financially fit
I need to be more prayerful as I seek direction about how to spend my time, talents, money
Listen First
Know the Doctrine (especially the facts! and live the facts!)
Live the Standard
Be Good Neighbors (What have I done kind for someone today?
Open our Mouths (Declare, Testify, Show/Be belief)
Extend Invitations (Include, Open up, Share)
Be Bodl, But Not Overbearing
Integrity (wholeness/completeness of what we know and what we do)
Be on your guard (sexual involvement with students? it's crazy! be on your guard)
People are not living virtuous lives - they need to learn this from teachers in schools!
We cannot teach religion in schools
But, we can make our own banner
We can be a good example and live what we believe
Stand where you stand
Certificates can help because they might acknowledge you more
Those who know, know - you won't need degrees for the smartest of people
We need degrees for those who don't know
Education of any and every type will help you be more used by the Lord
be a humble servant and you will be more used by the Lord
How great reason have we to rejoice!
Could we have know that, when we started from this land (of Bountiful, of Provo) that we would see such great blessings?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
21 Oct 2009: Stephanie Allen
Stephanie Allen
Working for LDS Church (Digital Media Division of Audio Visual Department)
Center for Teaching and Learning
How do we capture emerging technology and "share the message"?
For you? Youth, new members, potential members etc.
Aaron Lower (Missionary Dept) - exhibits and kiosks in visitors cetners etc.
Outdoor street kiosk (2012 Olympics) - outside Hyde Park
Scott Olsen
26 years
Web media group
Crowd sourcing - video, audio from conference (300 files) and needs to get up online (tagged, named etc) - let members sign up and resize and tag - getting members involved
How to con members into doing work for you for free
Jim Anderson
Web Media Producer
Media arts & film program
Internet media marketing - new ways to get the message of the gospel out & reach new audiences
Next generation "next gen" of lds.org
Video testimony wall & user-generated content
Bob Jones
Audio-Visual Dept - graduated in media message devpt and research
How can we use the social media market to engage more folks?
Google Wave
Working for LDS Church (Digital Media Division of Audio Visual Department)
Center for Teaching and Learning
How do we capture emerging technology and "share the message"?
For you? Youth, new members, potential members etc.
Aaron Lower (Missionary Dept) - exhibits and kiosks in visitors cetners etc.
Outdoor street kiosk (2012 Olympics) - outside Hyde Park
Scott Olsen
26 years
Web media group
Crowd sourcing - video, audio from conference (300 files) and needs to get up online (tagged, named etc) - let members sign up and resize and tag - getting members involved
How to con members into doing work for you for free
Jim Anderson
Web Media Producer
Media arts & film program
Internet media marketing - new ways to get the message of the gospel out & reach new audiences
Next generation "next gen" of lds.org
Video testimony wall & user-generated content
Bob Jones
Audio-Visual Dept - graduated in media message devpt and research
How can we use the social media market to engage more folks?
Google Wave
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
8 Oct 2009: Rick Cline (Utah Education Network)
Is Instructional Design and State Government an Oxymoron?
It just depends on how it's implemented
Syllogism: a logical argument in which a decision is inferred from two premises
- 1) libraries provide and maintain a collection of information for peple to use
- 2) online databases are collections of records stored in computers for people to use
- conflict: many people don't know how to use computers to access libraries
- solution: find a way for library patrons to become aware of and use the onine databases
It just depends on how it's implemented
Syllogism: a logical argument in which a decision is inferred from two premises
- 1) libraries provide and maintain a collection of information for peple to use
- 2) online databases are collections of records stored in computers for people to use
- conflict: many people don't know how to use computers to access libraries
- solution: find a way for library patrons to become aware of and use the onine databases
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