Matt’s Notes
Welcome one and all to the latest EnT! We are going all in on change in education… and the role of ed tech therein and/or therewith and/or whyfor… please have at the clicking and/or otherwise checking in below!
If it weren’t for the viewing, this listening would be a “total experience” #ednontech
Interviews, and more interviews!
As we spoke to during the episode, we have… mumble-mutter… A NUMBER of interviews lined up in the month of June… and perhaps beyond…
Basically, LinkedIn has been extremely helpful in this regard.
It took having my job with the Commissionaire Corps of Canada eliminated for this to happen. For the foreseeable future… i.e., until I have a “regular” job again… whether in a week or six months or longer… I’m treating this podcast and the music podcast… and other kinds of writing… as a full-time job…
And so… reaching out to colleagues through LinkedIn… who just happen to be some of the top people in the e-learning / ed tech / learning design area. I’m not saying who until the episodes have been recorded… as a matter of principle… but as I sit here typing these notes early Monday morning… we have two interviews scheduled within the next 72 hours with people who I think will bring A LOT to the show…
As such, it was absolutely brilliant speaking with Dave Cormier a few days ago about his excellent, highly necessary Learning in a Time of Abundance… and the Uncertainty conference in July… AKA #ShrugCon…
Anyway, once we have interviews posted with 9 or 10 of the top e-learning people in the world in the next few weeks… we may be in a position to begin work on the long-gestating ED NON-TECH (ENT) BOOK…
Again, it’s a function of not having a “regular” job that I have time to act on this stuff…
You might say it’s downright fortuitous… and that’s saying nothing of my interviews scheduled this week for a couple of “regular” jobs… either of which could be highly rad…
TRU Education 5040
As per LinkedIn…
Please click here to check out the Ed non-Tech lecture on EDI! There are currently 77 comments in total… with more on the way!
Turning 46
Speaking of change… and changes…
On the one hand, any birthday in your forties really is a nothing year. I am squarely in the middle of life. My grandfather passed away around this time last year… at the age of 90.
If I’m lucky, I have half my life left. But as per the Stoics, as long as I’m living a good life… then I should be ready to go anytime…
What I can say at this point is that I have the best family, friends, and colleagues in the world. And over this past weekend, I realized that again writ large.
Backyard hangs. Long drives. Family heirloom beer steins. World-class grilled sausages. Lemon meringue pie and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Cross-country phone calls and long-distance doggo pictures. One cat and then another. Piles of craft beer. Heavy food at Boston Pizza. Auntie hugs that nearly take the wind out of you.
Yeah, more of these things please. I am one lucky self-employed son-of-a-gun. You’d have to be thick as a brick not to see it…
Gather Up the Chaps
Man, there’s just something about the Lawrence Arms.
There are days that go past where I listen to nothing but the greatest (non-)hits collection We are the Champions of the World. Somehow I’ve been a fan of punk and other heavy music since I was a child… but had missed Larry Limbs until around two years ago… when I embarked on:
A) Starting these podcasts
B) Buying many (many!) thousands of dollars of vinyl records
…both of which were functions of being without work for the first time in many (many!) years.
Larry operates on a basic principle: three-piece Chicago punk with two singers that veers into pop territory, but really owes more to dark, ugly folk music than anything else…
It’s danceable as fuck, is how I’d put it if I were writing these notes for the other podcast!
I’ve gotten the Flappy logo as a forearm tattoo, and I’ve direct messaged the band’s IG and guitarist Chris McCaughan IG many (many!) times… the only thing I can say is that if anyone from Larry appears on the music podcast to interview, it’ll be a minor miracle… but on the other hand, neither Larry nor Chris have blocked me at this point…
ANYWAY
Because they have so much talent, Brendan Kelly and Neil Hennessy from Larry started the Falcon, which also includes Dan Andriano from Alkaline Trio and Dave Hause from Philly’s The Loved Ones… Brendan moving from bass to guitar and primary vocal duties… with Dan on bass and some vocals, Neil on drums, and Dave on guitar and some other vocals. They have at least two full-length releases… including Gather Up the Chaps…
It slays is all. And I can’t stop listening to it right now. Here’s hoping to exorcize these earworms by blasting them through this here blog format!
My name is Matt, and this has been a public service announcement…
Doug’s Notes
Change in Education: What role does EdTech play in this?
… retrospection may help us answer the question of how the current push for integrating technology into schools might compare with the histories of previous technologies in educational reform.
… a common pattern that the introduction and use of past instructional technologies have tended to follow. … the ‘exhilaration / scientific-credibility / disappointment / teacher-bashing cycle”.
Kent, T. W., & McNergney, R. F. (1999). Will technology really change education? From blackboard to Web. Corwin Press, Inc., A Sage Publications Company, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
Change. It happens. Why should we care or try to understand its nature? Change surrounds us; we are immersed regularly in its process.
Ellsworth, J. B. (2000). Surviving Change: A Survey of Educational Change Models. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, Syracuse University, 621 Skytop Rd., Suite 160, Syracuse, NY 13244-5290.
All educational organizations need to innovate and to develop their practices to keep pace with social and technological change, and to respond to economic pressures. In this situation, teachers need to adopt new professional roles, cultivate their professional identities, and incorporate new insights into their professional practices
Vähäsantanen, K. (2015). Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers’ professional identities. Teaching and teacher education, 47, 1-12.
Building on the concept of an instructional regime, as described by Cohen and Ball (1999), educators and policymakers need to stop thinking of learning software as an intervention in and of itself and to think instead of broader instructional activity systems (Roschelle, Knudsen, & Hegedus, 2009) defined by:
- Learning content
- Learning activities, only some of which are technology-based
- Articulation between a given learning activity system and other systems the student is exposed to
- Teacher professional development and collaboration around
- implementation of the instructional activity system Assessments for learning
- Use of data to refine the instructional activity on an ongoing basis.
Means, B. (2010). Technology and education change: Focus on student learning. Journal of research on technology in education, 42(3), 285-307.
Word of the Podcast
Change / (or Disruption)
Question of the Podcast
How can we make change easier to adapt to in education?
Phrase of the Podcast
When it is not in keeping with the students needs…
Many thanks for stopping by! We’re looking forward to next time!
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