{"id":534,"date":"2012-10-17T00:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/?p=534"},"modified":"2012-10-17T00:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:59:02","slug":"keynote-speaker-open-ed-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.lwebs.ca\/index.php\/keynote-speaker-open-ed-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker \u2013 Open Ed 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Keynote Speaker for the conference was Dr. Gardner Campbell. As you can see from his bio at http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/members\/w-gardner-campbell<\/a>. He is quite the Renaissance Man.<\/span><\/p>\n

He started his talk with this photo of the launch from the Stratosphere<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/g-121014-cvr-felix-3p2.photoblog900.jpg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

and these quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>It may be learning, but it’s not academics.<\/span>”
\n– A colleague’s response when the presenter first introduced him to the World Wide Web.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The presenter claims that despite academic resistance OER (Open Educational Resources) has won thanks to <\/span>MOOCs<\/a>, <\/span>Coursera<\/a>, <\/span>Udacity<\/a>, <\/span>edX<\/a> and <\/span>Edupunks<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

However,<\/span><\/p>\n

“That is not it at all,
\nThat is not what I meant, at all.
\n<\/span><\/span>T.S Eliot. The Love Song of . Alfred Prufrock<\/span><\/p>\n

These initiatives do not fit with the original vision of OER. We are in a <\/span>double bind<\/a>. We see the potential of open educational resources, but the actual implementation of it is not what this speaker originally envisioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a better understanding of the issues surrounding OER, the speaker recommended <\/span>The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer by Seymour Papert<\/a> and <\/span>Steps to an Ecology of Mind<\/a> by Gregory Bateson. Open is an attitude towards systems. He differentiated between Schoolers (i.e., those who school or are schooled) and Yearners (those with a strong desire for something more than schooling or academics). He also recommended <\/span>To Repair the Ruins<\/a> a series of essay on Milton as well as <\/span>Who Am I by Pete Townshend<\/a> for a better understand of the issues arouond this double bind.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were presented with <\/span>Bateson’s Hierarchy of Learning<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning Zero: <\/span>“\u2026<\/span>is characterised by specificity of response, which <\/span>\u2013<\/span> right or wrong – is not subject to correction.<\/span>”
\nLearning 1:”<\/span>\u2026<\/span>is change in specificity of response by correction of errors of choice within a set of alternatives. ” e.g.,Pavlov, habituation, adaptation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Learning II: <\/span>“\u2026<\/span>is change in the process of Learning I, e.g. a corrective change in the set of alternatives from which choice is made, or it is a change in how the sequence of experience is punctuated.<\/span>“<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Learning III:<\/span>“\u2026<\/span>is change in the process of Learning II, e.g. a corrective change in the system of sets of alternatives from which choice is made.<\/span>“<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Learning IV: <\/span>“\u2026<\/span>would be change in Learning III, but probably does not occur in any adult living organism on this earth.”
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The hierarchy is discontinuous. Just as a longer B paper does not become an A paper.\u00a0<\/span>All communication has this characteristic — it can be magically modified by accompanying communication.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Double bind may also be the way out.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond access and cost: a primary benefit of open education insofar as it is not merely open but opening, This is the opportunity for networked transcontextualism — a planetary double-take.<\/span><\/p>\n

BUT<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t fake the double take!<\/span><\/p>\n

We were then given examples (places) where he found the double-take happening in a course.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first example was his course, <\/span>From Memex to YouTube: Cognition, Learning and the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n

He created a variation of the Apgar test for class meetings<\/a>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is the <\/span>“<\/span>dackolupatoni<\/span><\/a>“<\/span> experiment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He closed his presentation with quotes from two poems.<\/span><\/p>\n

We shall not cease from exploration
\n<\/span>And the end of all our exploring
\nWill be to arrive where we started
\nAnd know the place for the first time.\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0T.S. Eliot — “Little Gidding” (the last of his\u00a0Four Quartets<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At a Window
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Give me hunger,
\nO you gods that sit and give
\nThe world its orders.
\nGive me hunger, pain and want,
\nShut me out with shame and failure
\nFrom your doors of gold and fame,
\nGive me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!<\/p>\n

But leave me a little love,
\nA voice to speak to me in the day end,
\nA hand to touch me in the dark room
\nBreaking the long loneliness.
\nIn the dusk of day-shapes
\nBlurring the sunset,
\nOne little wandering, western star
\nThrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
\nLet me go to the window,
\nWatch there the day-shapes of dusk
\nAnd wait and know the coming
\nOf a little love.\ufffd
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Carl Sandburg
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire presentation is available online at\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/bit.ly\/Gardner-Keynote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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