Final Day of the 2013 Conference

Final blog for EdMedia 2013 in Victoria, BC

Thursday, June 27, 2013

When the regular presenter was delayed by weather, we did not get to hear on the addictions of the digital age. Intstead,   Rod Sims spoke on design alchemy transforming the way we think about teaching and learning and using technology. He recommended that we create a whole new online pedagogy for teaching where 

1  The student needs to be active.

2  The learning needs to be learner centered. 

2  The learner lives in their own particular context. 

3  There  needs to be a Problem-based model

And students need to hypothesize, modify, experiment, manipulate

Compare, and choose      This all enables critical thinking. 

It's a social world;  we need to work with others and learn from them. 

While working together we have a series of collaborative roles as 

Teacher

Writer

Builder

Learner

Designer 

Anyone in a learning space can take on any of these roles.

Rod showed some nice info graphics to help get his proposed concepts across and had a very effective format for his presentation.  It was easy to follow and ideal to emulate. As an alchemist he set a clear outline for how to design a course and it's assessments and activities.  

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During the second session, I used the hotel computer to write my blog for yesterday. The computer was laggy, but I was able to complete my report.  Plus, I was beginning to reach critical mass and let like I was get inning the trends at this conference, something I felt I needed to be a part of to k now I was being current in my studies as an emergent excellent teacher.  It was clear that the flipped classroom model for sure had an overwhelming emphasis at this conference. Getting the student involved is key. 

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The next presenter, from Hawaii at Manoa , was focusing on the Emerging scholar stream at the conference, but she spoke  about preparing a CV.   Everything she said was consistent about what I k now. It just had a slightly different focus for an academic resumes for people applying for professorship positions. 

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The next session I chose was from a former Ottawanian Nw in Austrailia: Encouraging senior university faculty members to move their teaching content online: we CAN teach old dogs new tricks!

Carol Miles, University of Newcastle, Australia, University of Newcastle, Australia

Carol was a great presenter and talked about the evolution of teaching and teaching theory and how some professors who have been teaching for a long time are not embracing technology. She showed the famous model of the early adopters right to the laggers   As a learning and teaching centre director, she says we cannot expect everyone to embrace technology. She also talked about the historical development of the learning and teaching centre and how sometimes they don't have the budgets they need and are different from the skillet of the IT departments. 

When I asked her about Lisa's suggestion that I present my evolution as a TEK opportunities and how I've changed my teaching practice since attending EdMedia. I thought that might b the perfect story. There are l it's of new up and comings and they might want to hear the benefit of me attending so that they can establish benefits to schools sending their department staff to EdMedia.  One of the EdMedia tweeters for the conference told me that he'd l I've to hear a strategy for how to l is ten at EdMedia. I'm going to do a little more canvassing to build the right content for a specific audience and apply for special PD funds so that I can attend EdMedia in Finand nex year,  Maybe I will have a story to tell.