PIDT: Tom Schwen

Especially irreverent speculations about the future of educational technology R&D

• Problems are solved by individual interventions
• There are multiple ways to do interventions
• Have we been able to model change in socially mediated .. over time
• All models are wrong, some models are useful - George Box
• - Karl Popper
• All theories are wrong, some theories are useful - with apologies to Popper
• Time not to throw the model aw ay but to introduce new models
• Assumptions toward an alternative framework
• Gagne, Merrill and Reigeluth, - DOminant framework
• Omission - social cultural learning - (Wundt)
  
  • Vygotsky
  • Social mediators
  • Children and language learning
• Omission - theoretical learning - (scaling up)
  
  • The predominant mental model is a micro theory
  • Our units of anaylsis are infentsimal compared to the scope we intend as instructional designers over time
• Individual
  
  • Micro - CBT / Job Aids
  • Meso - Classroom / EPSS / Group
    
    • Gloria Gery - EPSS
  • Macro - KM Objects / Systems (ic)
    • Knowledge as object
    • Knowledge that is reusable in another circumstance
    • Hoban - Systems
• Social/Cultural
  
  • Barbara Rogoff - Girl Scout cookie study
  • Micro
    
    • Apprenticing
  • Meso
    
    • COP
      • Middle theories
    • Activity theory
  • Macro
    
    • Institutional  theory
    • Knowledge Management process
      • Modeling the way knowledge moves thru a system
    • Organizational learning
  • Each of these perspectives has scalability issues
  • We have assumed all of these scale equally wel
  • That is not the case

  • Download theoryfinal_2.doc

  • Atheoretical practices
    • Micro
      • Coaching
      • OJT
    • Meso
      • GE Workout
      • Action learning
      • Simulation games
        
        • What is the social consequence of the game?
    • Macro
      
      • Planning change
      • Strategic planning
  • Mental Models Tzeng & Schwen
    
    • Mental represntation based task analysis
      
      • emphasizes knowledge representation
      • analyzes trainers and learners mental representations
      • Understands, communicates, and negotiates for the meanings of the best practice
      • Integration of patterns of behaviors
      • Mental representations based
  • Observations - interviews - identify action patterns - if/then goal propositions
    

    Download paper_05.ppt

  • Download good_collective_readings.doc

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