If you’re not familiar with it yet, ds106 has been doing all kinds of innovative and creative things when it comes to extending the online learning space. And today, I spotted another one of their creative samplings — this one for sparking student interest in one of their future learning adventures.
Via Not[Trivial]
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Ed-Tech: the established thinking is that pedagogy should precede technology. But in a review of Cathy Davidson’s new book Now You See It, we see an instance of the reverse:
She and her Duke colleagues worked with Apple to give every entering freshmen an iPod, and then they sat back and watched as students and teachers developed innovate [sic] and collaborative ways to incorporate iPods into their work … No one could have predicted all the ways the iPods enhanced learning once they were in the hands of students and teachers — and that’s a central point of Cathy Davidson’s new book Now You See It.
So what was the key ingredient to this deviation from the established line of thought? Was it the demographic (e.g., college-aged students as opposed to a younger, K-12 crowd)? Were students asked to take more active roles in the instructional designs? Or was it just an outlier? I’m curious to know if Davidson elaborates on this in her book.