Technology and Cognition

Links for EDUC 451 presentation on technology and learning

• Thinking about technology and change
  • Google vs. Yahoo! (now) vs. Yahoo! (back in the day): Wayback Machine.
  • Video via Discovery Education Streaming.
• Examples of good and not-so-good research
  • Discussing Lee & Molebash: Group B used http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/msc_cubamenu.asp. 
• Examples of technology's affordances
  • Being visual: Google Earth overlay of places / events of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Being multi-modal: This fascinating proof-of-concept for science ed: The old, egg-in-a-bottle experiment: http://www.primaryaccess.org/mix/
  • Being interactive: Could go with clickers / blogs / etc. Will settle for digital documentaries with PrimaryAccess: http://www.primaryaccess.org/show.php?id=271
  • Being more on-demand, recursive: (ppt from SOL review); can also use Jefferson's mail: http://viseyes.org/show/?base=jt , click on "Mail"
  • Being more "authentic": Wikipedia local history examples: Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and entry on Henry Noll, Bethlehem-area steelworker. 
  • Off-loading fact-recall, emphasizing schema
    
    • Jewish populations during the Holocaust
      
      • Charts from Yad Vashem for Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

      • GIS file displaying the same data (requires My World GIS).

    • Visualization of schema: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2181563514430595509
  • Being epistemologically self-monitoring: The Differences Slavery Made (Ayers &Thomas, 2003)

Literature referenced

• Boster et al., 2007. The impact of video streaming on mathematics performance. Communication Education, 56(2), 134-144.
• Carr, N. (July/August, 2008). "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/
• Lee, J., & Molebash, P. (2004). Outcomes of various scaffolding strategies on student teachers' digital historical inquiries. Journal of Social Studies Research, 26(1), 25-35.
• Presnky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On The Horizon, 9(5). http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf