Virtual Museum of Educational Technology Project

SCoPE session, October 1, 2008Richard A. SchwierUniversity of Saskatchewan

Purposes of the project

• To investigate the contemporary history of educational technology

• To populate a virtual museum of educational technology with interviews, artifacts, media and print documents.

Question 1:

• What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?

Question 2:

• Who is the most influential scholar in educational technology you can name?

Question 3

• What is an important event in the history of educational technology?

Historical Lenses

Photo credit: André Karwath, Wikimedia Commons

The People Lens

The People Lens

The People Lens

Wikipedia:Karl FischIan JukesJamie McKenzieScott McLeodAlan NovemberSeymour PapertWill RichardsonGary StagerJohn SwellerJoyce Kazman ValenzaDavid WarlickDavid Marcovitz

Rick’s additions:ComeniusJames FinnRobert GagnéKaty CampbellAlbert BanduraGeorge SiemensStephen DownesMarshall McLuhanAllan PaivioMarcy DriscollM. David MerrillLarry LessigDavid JonassenCharles ReigeluthAndy GibbonsElizabeth BurgeDenys Hlynka

Your additions:

“Thinkers” in ECT lens

The Organizational Lens

- 2007

AMTEC - 1971 CADE - 1980s

CAVA - 1961

EMAC-1968

DAVI - 1958

ETRAC - 1968

• CAVA News - 1958

• Educational Media - 1969 - 1971

• Media Message - 1973 -

• Canadian Journal of Educational Communication 1983 - 2001

• Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology 2001 - ??

The Publication Lens

• AVCR - 1952-1977

• Educational Communication and Technology (ECTJ) - 1978 - 1992

• Journal of Instructional Development 1978-1992

• Educational Technology Research & Development 1992 - ??

The Publication Lens

• Film - 1940s

• Television - 1950s

• Programmed instruction - 1960s

• Systematic instructional design - 1970s

• Computers - 1980s

• The Internet - 1990s

• Social networks & Web 2.0 - 2000s

The Panacea Lens

The Social Lens

• Objectivism

• Cognitivism

• Constructivism

• Connectivism- Social learning

Individuals

Groups

The Theoretical Lens

Shifts in ET lens

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Shifts in ET

ObjectivismCognitivis

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Social Learning

ConstructivismConnectivis

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Shifts in ET

ObjectivismCognitivis

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Connectivism

Constructivism

Individual growth

Group growth

The National Lens

Partners/Collaborators

George SiemensUniversity of Manitoba Sylvia Currie

BCcampus Online

YOU

But what can you do• Any of you can contribute something to the site

• Identify & gather innovative content.

– Artifacts? Stories?

– Video interviews with key people in the field?

– Examples of classroom media and hardware?

– Virtual tours of historical sites?

• You might interview someone to gather stories and artifacts of historical significance

• You might prepare summaries of the interviews and add your contact's contributions to the museum site

• Join us for the launch of the Museum in April

Questions (examples)

• Describe important contributors and contributions to ET.

• Who was influential in the growth of ET, and why?

• Any stories from your own experience that inform the history of our field of study?

• What can we learn from our past?

• What issues in educational technology do we face?

• What locations are significant to ET and why?

• What artefacts or documents are important to us, and why?