Theory & practice of teaching and learning with tablet computers

Mart Laanpere, senior researcher @ Tallinn University, Estonia :: martl@tlu.ee

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Technology generation shifts

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Changes in learning environment

Learning environment: a range of contexts, components and activities in which learning occurs. Four dimensions: physical, relationships, structures and expectations, language and communication

Taken for granted, that’s why reform pedagogies usually start from breaking down the traditional learning environment (Pestalozzi, Montessori, Steiner, open classroom…)

Historical learning environments: Socrates and peripathetikos, apprenticeship, Rousseau Emile, early village schools

The first virtual learning environments: 3D copy of classroom

1:1 computing: a disruptive change in learning environment

Technology in learning environment

1900: educational films, educational radio

1960: B.F.Skinner: programmed instruction, learning machines

1970: Seymour Papert (MIT): LOGO

1990: CSCL, content is not important, learning is about collaboration and communication

2000: E-learning: Web-based course management systems

2015: 1:1 computing, tablet computers and smartphones (BYOD)

Learning from computers vs. learning with computers (Jonassen)

(Geels 2002)(Geels 2002)

Whole school digital turn

The training and support is oriented on the level of a teacher

Diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1992), OECD study (2002)

Whole school intervention models are needed

Digital turn towards 1:1 computing: promises and failures

Horizon Report 2012: the main technology trend in education with 1 year time to adoption

Radical shift in learning environment, re-definition of teaching and learning processes, lecturing won’t work in 1:1 classroom

Failures: OLPC Peru: 2.4 million laptops, no effect on learning Tiger Leap laptop schools: “Please, take these laptops away!”

Success stories: Odder, Denmark: iPads for 200 teachers and 2000 students Essa Academy, UK: technology as an essential component of radical

school improvement

Pedagogical change

Innovative learning (The Club of Rome 1979)

Trialogical learning (Paavola): collaborative knowledge building resulting with shareable digital artefacts

Learning in design mode vs belief mode (Bereiter, 2000)

Flipped classroom, game- and project-based learning

Self-regulated learning, changing role of the teacher

Re-conceptualising e-textbooks

Five scenarios for tablet classrooms

Flipped classroom: learning in advance of the lesson from short videos and other resources, making sense and applying new knowledge during the lesson (Khan Academy)

Inquiry-based classroom: learning like scientists do, by questioning, exploring, explaining, (in)validating

Project-based classroom: collaborative creation of artifacts

Problem-based classroom: solving and constructing problems

Game-based classroom: learning from playing and designing games (Quest2Learn school NY)