WHAT DO

THEY WANT?

CC-BY – Children in India (http://pkdeviance.blogspot.com/) – But this applies to many places

DEVELOPMENT & DEPENDENCY

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Summer 2012 – Visit D.R. (Pre-

Dissertation)

Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 – Collect Data

(Online Portion – Development of

PLEs)

Summer 2013 – Visit D.R. (Culmination)

TIMELINE

High Investment in ICT (Broadband, Mobile,

CTC)

Close Proximity to the US (Migration History)

Moderate to Low Regional Education

Performance

Personal Relations and Connections (ITLA,

Family)

WHY D.R.

2008

Graduation rates

18 Latin American countries.

STEAL, 2010

COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

Visiting the DR this summer for two months.

Establish a working relationship with 3 CTCs.

Visit ITLA, the Ministry of Education and record interviews.

Continue to work with ITLA to promote open and mobile

learning.

Begin recording a Documentary about Invisible Learning.

Request donation for a 1 to 1 mobile learning project through

a CTC.

STAGE 1: PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH

LEVELS

Gov.

Community

CTC Administrators

CTC Users

Interviews

Participant Observation

Field Notes

Survey

Focus Group

METHODS

a. How do you think the technology available to you through the

CTC has infl uenced your learning?

b. How does tecnología impact the economy?

c. Was the building of the CTC a good investment?

d. What is your opinion of the local education system?

e. What would you like to learn that you currently are unable to?

f. Why did you buy a mobile phone over a landline phone?

g. What is your opinion of the CTC?

h. Do you have internet at home?

i. Do you own a personal computer?

j. Do you have family abroad? How important is their support?

QUESTIONS – (CTC MEMBERS)

BROAD ICT AND EDUCATION - THEORY

Pro-ICT Positivists

It Depends ICT Constructivist

Against-ICTNeo-Classicists

There are constructivist and critical writers that are in all three categories. Most positivist are pro-technology, while some neo-classicists see it as a corruption of traditional values.

1- Sociotechnological archetype for a new ecology of education

Serendipitous

InformalNon-

formalFormal

Invisible Learning

HOW IS INVISIBLE LEARNING TAKING PLACE

PRE-DISSERTATION QUESTION

How are community members learning through the CTC? Are they developing Personal Learning Environment. Do these learning environment will focus on using high quality low cost educational resources?

Is access to information through ICT transforming the educational experience (“invisible learning”) of community members?

Community Technology

Center

High CostLow Quality

High CostHigh Quality

Low CostLow Quality

Low CostHigh Quality

STAGE 2 – DEVELOPING A “PLE”

How does Mobile Learning impact and Internet Access impact their education? Can individuals learn marketable skills through PLE? How does Mobile Learning impact their informational and digital literacy skills?

MATERIALS- HQ-LC

Closed Open Pirated

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Cerrado

Abierto

Pirata

LEARNING COMMUNITIES - IOS

The Internet and Open Data (Berners-Lee)

Free Culture Movement (Lessig)

Open Source Software Movement

(Stallman)

Open Licenses (Lessig)

Open Access Journals (Suber)

Open Educational Resources (Wiley)

Massive Online Open Courses (Downes)

Open Badges (Mozilla, OERU)

Open Economies (Benkler)

OPENNESS

Openness

OC

OER

OCW

OPEN INFORMATION

Credit: Apple

CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT

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DipticJun 23, ‘10

PicFrameMay 4, ‘11

Learning Activity Knowledge

Formal Informal

Arts and

Crafts

Reading

iTunes U

Student’s

Experience

Apps

LEARNING AT A LOW COST

DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PLES

MOBILE PLE STUDY

iPod Touch PLE

iPod Touch PLE

iPod Touch PLE

Interviews and Selection of Participants

Understanding of 1 Year Participation

Project Based Course – Creating an OER

Course Together on Setting Up a PLE

Communicate Via Moodle or Ning Site

Weekly Meetings – Progress Reports

Obtain a Badge, Credit from ITLA

Co-Edit a Documentary (Knowledge Remittances)

SET UP – MOBILE PLE

Flexible Learning Theory

Andragogy

Measuring Lifelong Learning

Connectivism

Transactional Distance Theory

ICT AND LIFELONG LEARNING

MAKING A DOCUMENTARY TOGETHER

SHARING A FINAL PROJECT

Revisiting the Dominican Republic

Focus Groups

Interviews

Member Checking

Reactions to the Documentary

STAGE 3 – SUMMER 2O13