The Role of Expectancy in Online Teaching-Session

This is by Jared Richardson and Damian Creame

Referenced the book:  Distrupting Class

Making the point of when the transistor radio came out way back when.  They saw a market, and the music, the industry changed — now the people were buying radios who were not buying large ones.

Same thing for Online Education….

At first, it was not very successful:  used for those who needed credit recovery, bad completion rate, etc.

Now we know more about how technology interfaces with students……

Now–How to motivate students using Technology…..

Number one motivation is their interaction with teachers……this holds true with online. That’s why the shells, and the online purchased curriculum is not that great.

Keller’s ARCS Method

• Attention
• Relevance (related to expectancy)
• Confidence
• Satisfaction

This did not work for students—over all…..

then the other model was based on the research of Rheinberg, Vollmeyer, and Rollet

Three expectancies: consider….

What constitutes Success

Degree of responsibility and freedom

Learned approach and can be modified.

Basic to relevant education

How to diagnose

1.  AOE-Action Outcome Expectancy

• These students take responsibility for their learning
• Will not tolerate busy work
• Learning must have relevant goals
• Grades are not a motivator

<So these students are interested in learning for learning sake……>

2.  Outcome Consequence Expectancy-People-Oriented Students

• lets teachers or others set agenda
• highly motivated by grades
• takes responsibility for personal performance…..

<These stuents are still low in numbers….>

3.  SOE-Situation Outcome Expectancy-Comfort-Oriented Students

• Total responsibilit for learning is gien to others
• Will do only what is the minimum to survieve
• Seldom follows set agendas

How do you deal with each type of student:

AOE

Technology assists:  Immediate fedbace, brancing, authentic projects, higher order discussions

Teacher approach-Coaching (+ and – feedback)

Instruction Design:  ARCS

OCE

Tech Assists:  Immediate feedback, ineractive tasks, synchronous conferencing, threaded discussions

Teacher Approach:  Cheerleading (+feedback)

Instruction Design:  ARCS

SOE

Technology Assists:  Immediate feeback, levels of progress, rich visual environment wi/o distraction.

Teacher Approach:  Coaxing( 0 feedback)

Instructional Desigh:  Video Game Format……(need to establish relavence)

Volitional Snags:

• Serendipity Effect (unplanned)
• Distracters (planned)
• Dependence (waiting to do something until told to do it)
• Text-based ennui (boredom)
• ADD/ADHD syndrome

Astleitner’s Checklist

13 things that you need to design a good online class:

1. reflective learning
2. cognitive motivational emotional learning
3. considers strenghs of students
4. knowledge acquired and applied in various contexts
5. basics and higher order thinking..

Applications for the 21st Century

• We need a branched approach where we build on their strengths and needs
• Personalized programs-based on needs of the students
• Human-Technology Interface
• Disruptive Innovation-it might get messy but that is a good thing
• Life-Long Education-we want to help students be life long learners…we want them to value education
• Economics

Good discusson about their school–Premavera Learning: American Virtual Academy.

Schedules of when the teachers will be online.
They publish this for the students, so that they get the support “online” when they need them.. Do not use webcams at al, but they use the white board sessions with “adobe connect” where they share desktops.  They don’t expect that ll of the students are online at the same.  They will be able soon do IMing to their teacher.

Assessment:  Standard MC, Projects, threaded discussions.  all of these are the ways they are assessed.  Eachlesson they do get assessed and then they can get retaught if hey don’t do well.  They then do get mid-terms, etc.

Student/TEacher interaction is 2-3 times more than that of regular teaching.

How do you diagnose the expectancy levels?  Ask”what do you want out of this course?”

Your Digital Personality : the real you in your online class

This session is about creativity, images and content on your online classes.

He had music on when we walked in. the Music sets the mood…..in K 12 environments, it works….do we remember when we took classes in college?  Can you set the moood ther?

How do you set the mood in an online course?

PASSION-a word on the screen—-the most important thing a teacher to have…..passion.

Today, passion –how do you transfer your passion into the digital environment?

In 1999-75 colleges wre using online learning.  Tod Conaway, went to Walden University (online)

Most models follow the structure of text based info, then forums.

Let’s agree”

• The instructions personality impacts student learning
• There is more that is learned in a class than “the content”
• Online instruction makes a “personality” difficult to develop or create.

Online instruction is important to create the environment that we learn in..

• we need ambiance–what does it look like in a face to face classroom, what does it look like  “online”?
• How is it created?  art, sounds, the tome, the istructor’s personality
• Does it impact student learning?

Role of the online instrucion:

• pedagogical role
• social role
• managerial role
• technical role

So the closer you get to someone the more you learn–the more open you are to the learning environment. This is true in the F2F classroom….how true in the Online class.

Online Ambiance:  Banner, background,

What does the role of the instructor play:  How does he instructor put this all on line?

There is more to the LCMsystem than the system.

• You can bring “in” all of the things you want to use for collaborating,
• If you deliver your content within a website, you can do HTML easily
• Roles of the instructor
• Web 2.0 is a great place and great ways to bring in content

The way that you are present in your courses is important.

You want to give them students your passion and enthusiasm…..

• you should put a video, lots of pictures, knowing they will go and Google you.

<great discussion about what should a teacher/online instructor put on line…..I really believe that we need to reach out to our students and risk and offer to them a bit of ourselves.>

Examples:  online weekly videos about what the week’s learning willl be.  A video series from one HS social studies teacher in costume taking on personnae of hisorical figures.

<tegrity-lecture capture program……>

Using video to introduce online classes, is a great way to do this–using Camtasia.

Free programs:  jing.com, Screencast.com, Audacity, dimdim, skype, ning,picassa

connections with students……your personality can be so much more…..

So, this is excellent, and was very good.

Now he is an instructional designer, to help teachers

MEC Conference–Here we go! 1st session-Cathy Poplin Speaks about the 6 trends in Ed TEch

6 Trends in Educational Technology

Cathy Poplin, Deputy Superintendent of Department of Education in Educational Technology, is talking about the trends in Educational Technology.

Below are the notes(Live blogged) for this session.  I  will say that it was interesting and informative.  Good to have the data,  and the information as we move forward in these times of no money.  I feel very validated and confident that we in Cave Creek are maximizing our technology use in many areas, and we are continuing to push forward.  I look forward to our piece of the Ed Tech pie………)

1.  Large scale 1-1 impleentations are still alive and well.

• the implementation plan is important–
• the mobil cart is not what they are talking about
• many districts are continuing down this road
• the ELTF (eLearning Task Force) — one to one learning is what they are looking at — to look for funding –they feel this is key2

.2..Learning Management Systems

• Back board
• Propriatory systems are opening up now, and letting people put in there own content.
• Open source ones are maturing…….
• It takes alot to manage this
• Blended learning is powerful.  IDEAL in Arizona has SAKAI is a LMS within IDEAL and it is wonderful and free within the IDEAL network

3.  Online assessiments

• immediate feedback
• record keeping
• formative assessment
• IDEAL has formative assessments-in the form of Multiple choice to print off.
• In an item bank
• By July, there will be single signon for students, and students will be able to have online assessments for students

4.  Mobile student computing

• all kids have cel phones — texting is alive and well…….
• they are using mobil computing
• in grade 9 nearly 70 %have phones,
• 80% has Mp3
• Kindergartners too, over 40 % of kids have these mobile devices too.

5.  Interactive White Boards-

• This is a huge push
• in IDEAL there are many resources
• Content will begin to explode in a few years….

6.  Internet Bandwidth Crisis

• Big broadband issue–not enough
• ELTF has looked closely at broadband in ARizona
• E-Rate task force is also being looked at.
• Behind the scenes there is much happening..

From the Speak Up data, there was much to be interested in:

 

What do kds use out of the classroom?

Gaming, downloading music, social networking,, communications.  

In many places these are blocked in districted and agencies.  We need new policies so that these are available.

Schoolwork?

writing, online research, creating slideshows, videos, webpages, IM with classmates, online research.  

#1 trend for students:  our students are becoming Free Agent Learners

ONLINE LEARNING:self-directed learning, un-tethered to traditional school, expert at personal data aggregation

MOBIL DEVICES:Power of connections, creating new communities, not tethered to physical network

BAMING, MULITIMEDIA CONTENT:Experiential learning – make it real, content developers, process as important as knowledge gained.

 

Teacher Trends:

Online Learning is increasing…30 % prefer it 

• scheduling
• pacing
• time
• consider IDEAL coursens

33% have explored incorporating online learning in class

in IDEAL July 1 students can come on line, and teachers can do blended learing

Virtual learning too.

 

The National trend is up

 

ADE will be offering a Pilot for AP courses especially 

Online learning is growing 30 % annually,  2000-40000 enrollment, in 2006-700,000 enrollment.  

The course was unavailable is the numer 1 reason the person took the course. 

Our terrible trend in Arizona is that our funding has been cut by half…..we needed benchmark and accountability

 

The annual report, Arioana gets a D- for access to technology.  Our use is good, and we are maximizing our technology that we do have…

Federal stimulus–12,400 million for EETT.

We will get double the usual amount–create 21st century classrooms.  Laptops, whiteboards.

IDEAL

ATTAIN:  Achievement through Technology and Innovation:  Emphasises models that work.  Pd, and research model.

New Ed tEch Standards and Tech Plan

Statewide Instructional Technology (SIT) Project

State of AZ given a D- in access to technology

 

Bright Spots

- Federal stimulus money – around 12 million (want emphasis to be on 21st Century Classrooms)

- IDEAL

- ATAIN – Achievement Through Technology and Innovation – Professional Development, Research based

- New Ed Tech Standards & Tech Plan

- Statewide Instructional Technology (SIT) Project – Statewide person in each county to help with tech integration (1-2 people per COUNTY)

 

What Can You Do?

- Advocate

- Tell your story

- Invite, Inform, Involve –> School Board Members, State Legislators, Congressmen, Corporate Leaders

 

Challenge in 08-09

- Survive Economic Downturn

- Affect policies & Secure Funding

- Tell your stories!

Where did this Semester go?????

Well, I know to be a blogger you have to blog! but whoa, this semester came and went like a bolt of lightening.  We accomplished so much in our district with so little in terms of resources.  ( I know, the story of many districts like ours).  We have set in motion many initiatives and actions that have carried us through and continue to support our district initiaties for sure.  

I have to say I am proud of many of the accomplishments of some of our teachers who are working so hard to do more, be more, and reach harder and deeper into the lives of the students they teach to make an impact.  Those are the teachers I want to be like and strive to be like.  Teachers like Dawn Olson, who is an unwavering support of the district and her school, while supporting her teachers at the building at which she teachers 2nd grade.   Immersed in the everyday act, art and science of teaching, she reaches in and truly knows each of her students and teaches to their strengths.  Through the use of technology integration, seemlessly she engages them into the everyday fabric of school and the important outcomes she must see them achieve.  

But Dawn is not alone in this endeavor.  She has colleagues within the district who risk and reach every day to engage their learners as she does.  Heidi Befort, Marie Frantz, Jill Kratzke, Geoff Johnson, Dominique Flamm, Jeanne Damman the entire language department at the highschool.  All of these folks are reaching and engaging where there is little technology to go on, but a dream of something more.  

In each school there are pockets of learners who benefit from those teachers who just won’t stand for the same ol’ thing.  They dig and search and collaborate and communicate on behalf of their students in order to engage and teach, and facilitate and help them grow to new heights.  These are the teachers I look up to.  I appreciate all that I have had the opportunity to enjoy in terms of the collaboration and kindness, invitation and hope for our students so far this year.  I know that this is only the first half of an amazing year of hard work and growth for so many.  

Thanks to all of the teachers of Cave Creek who have worked along side me and invited me into their classrooms and been so kind to me as we travel along this journey together on behalf of our students.  Hopefully we will have a chance to see some funding across the district from an election that will benefit our students’ learning and growth.  

We need to continue to look forward and grow and push and teach our students how to be global citizens.  They are not going to learn this on their own.  We need to prepare them for their future.  It is up to us and that means teaching with the tools that they use and are accustomed to.  Sure it is a shift.  Sure it is uncomfortable.  For us.  Not them. The students are using all sorts of technology and web applications and software that are catapulting them into the 21st century.  We need to be very careful about how we take our next steps….

We need to be part of the answer.  Part of the solution.  Part of the vision.  

Well, anyway, this semester got away from me here in this blog, but I will try to come back.  I have been itching to write, but not having an avenue–I have been thinking too big.  I’ll start here.  I’ll get back to business.  Over break will be a good time.  Good time to refresh and breathe.  

So here’s to breathing!  Happy Holidays.  I will be back real soon!  I have lots to tell you about what I’ve been up to these past months.  Very interesting stuff, and good too!  As a learner and a teacher.  I’ll write soon………

 

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