EDUC 540 - Educational Technology: Agenda for June 13

Word Processing

Follow yesterday's instructions

Intro to Cognition

How do we learn? There are three basic streams of thought in how we learn. I will introduce each briefly.

Lecture on Cognition

Behaviorism

• Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism - a historical outline
• The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Behaviorism Tutorial

Information Processing Model

• Lecture notes
• The Conditions of Instruction - Gagne's IP-based theory
• TIP database

Constructivism

• Resources for contructivism are found on this page, including a comparison of Piaget and Vygotsky's approach.
• Bruner's constructivism, which looks a lot like Vygotsky

Break

Research Paper

There is a forum in Blackboard for research papers. Please post your topic in a forum for peer and instructor comment.

PowerPoint

Creating a simple presentation using PowerPoint

• The Basic Slide Show
• Improving Yesterday's Lecture
  • Graphics
  • Download Ed Tech lecture

Ideas on using PowerPoint well

• Article :: Gates, Jobs and the Zen Aesthetic
  • Key Point - Keep it Visual
• Today's Cognition Lecture (.ppt file)
  • We'll go through some of my techniques
• Output for PowerPoint and its limitation
  • Today's Cognition Lecture (pdf)
  • Today's Cognition Lecture (html)
  • Today's Cognition Lecture (quicktime movie)

Assignments

Readings

• Biology of Learning
• Seymour Papert's Talk

Assignments

• Create and hand in via Blackboard a formatted resume using all elements discussed in class

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