hacking the learner experience

H A C K

Tuesday, April 16, 13

Hacking the Learner Experience

Brian Mathews, Virginia TechLauren Pressley, WFU, Virginia Tech

Andy Burkhardt, Champlain College#ACRL2013

techniques & strategies for connecting with your instructional ecosystem


“The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In reality, hacking just means testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.”

Mark ZuckerburgFacebook


“I feel like there are all these opportunities in the world to use technology to make people’s lives better. At Google we’re attacking maybe 0.1 percent of that space. And all the tech companies combined are only at like 1 percent. That means there’s 99 percent virgin territory.”

Larry PageGoogle


LEARNER EXPERIENCEBrian Mathews @brianmathews


ADVISOR’S INSIGHTS


WRITING ACROSS DISCIPLINES


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“A threshold concept can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress.”

Jan MeyerTuesday, April 16, 13

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TRANSFORMATIVE

IRREVERSIBLE

INTEGRATIVE

BOUNDED

TROUBLESOME


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PHYSICS = heat transfer

MATHEMATICS = limit

CULTURAL STUDIES = signification

LITERATURE = deconstruction

ECONOMICS = opportunity cost

PHILOSOPHY = personhood


Courtesy of Char BoothTuesday, April 16, 13

What we teachWhen we teachHow we teach

What we can stopWhat we need to start

Who else we need to work with


LEARNER TAXONOMIESLauren Pressley @laurenpressley


TAXONOMYTuesday, April 16, 13

a standardized categorization


BLOOMTuesday, April 16, 13

Benjamin Bloom

1956


“A large part of what we call 'good teaching' is the teacher's ability to attain affective objectives through challenging the students' fixed beliefs and getting them to discuss issues.”

Benjamin Bloom (1964) in “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives”


Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Understanding

Knowledge


Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Re

vised


what’s our goal?


identify duplicatelocate identifyapply practiceselect compare

plan construct judge select


PERRYTuesday, April 16, 13

William G. Perry, Jr.

1968


first yearTuesday, April 16, 13

first year

dualism


second yearTuesday, April 16, 13

second year

contextual relativism


third yearTuesday, April 16, 13

third year

contextual relativism


fourth yearTuesday, April 16, 13

commitment within contextual relativism

fourth yearTuesday, April 16, 13

KOLBTuesday, April 16, 13

”Learning is an holistic process of adaptation to the world.”

David A. Kolb (1984) in

“Experiential Learning”


do

plan observe

think


Assimilators prefer to be presented with sound logical theories to consider.


Assimilators prefer to be presented with sound logical theories to consider.Convergers want to be provided with practical applications of concepts and theories.


Assimilators prefer to be presented with sound logical theories to consider.Convergers want to be provided with practical applications of concepts and theories.Accomodators prefer to have “hands on” experiences.


Assimilators prefer to be presented with sound logical theories to consider.Convergers want to be provided with practical applications of concepts and theories.Accomodators prefer to have “hands on” experiences.Divergers want to be allowed to observe and collect a wide range of information.


UNDERSTANDINGTuesday, April 16, 13

INQUIRY BASED LEARNINGAndy Burkhardt @vonburkhardt


CLOSING THOUGHTSHacking the Learner Experience


“By being obsessed with success, students are afraid to fail, so they are reluctant to take difficult steps to master new material. Acknowledging that difficulty is a crucial part of learning could stop a vicious circle in which difficulty creates feelings of incompetence that in turn disrupts learning.”

Frederique Autin & Jean-Claude Croizet


Questions & Comments

Brian Mathews, Virginia TechLauren Pressley, WFU, Virginia Tech

Andy Burkhardt, Champlain College#ACRL2013


Photo CreditsQuestion Mark by Marco Bellucci at flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/3534516458

Urban Pyramid by Evan Blaser at flickr.com/photos/evanblaser/5576673518

Rathmines Library by Dublin City Public Library at flickr.com/photos/dublincitypubliclibraries/373898623

Isabelle by Max Braun at flickr.com/photos/maxbraun/8236576898

Untitled by Petras Gaglias at flickr.com/photos/maxbraun/8236576898

Traverse City by Pat (cletch) Williams at flickr.com/photos/26542961@N07/6140209473/

Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser at http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk

Untitled by lil_devil_girl3 at flickr.com/photos/lil_devil_girl3/2784991333

Empire State Pigeon by ZeroOne at flickr.com/photos/70591690@N00/2865833414/

Question Everything by Duncan Hull at flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/202872717/


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