Stephen Bronack, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean of the College of Education at the University of West Georgia. Dr. Bronack is an engaging and informative presenter, and an internationally recognized expert in innovative uses of learning technologies. His scholarship is influencing the development and deployment of 21st century approaches across the educational spectrum. Dr. Bronack is a TED Talk veteran whose work in simulations and learning has been recognized with a Campus Technology Innovator’s Award. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional technology from the University of Virginia, and may be reached via email at: sbronack@westga.edu or on Twitter @bronack
National Equipment Finance Association 2015 Summit
1. New Worlds for Learning
Stephen C. Bronack, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, College of Education
University of West Georgia
@bronack /bronack 2015 NEFA Summit
10. A pre-cursor to the Internet
• Includes “…legal, educational, religious,
research, industrial and technical systems. In
this sense, the noosphere emerges through
and is constituted by the interaction of human
minds.”
12. • “I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers.”
– Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943
• “There is no reason anyone would want a
computer in their home.”
– Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equip Corp, 1977
• “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly
supernova and in 1996 catastrophically
collapse.”
– Bob Metcalfe, Founder of 3Com, 1995
15. How big is that…?
• As of September 2014, 1 billion websites
• Internet vs Library of Congress
– NSA can gather the entire LoC … every 6 hours
– 140+ billion photos on Facebook = 10k x LoC
– 26 Petabytes uploaded daily = 70x LoC
– The entire LoC can be stored in 2 Tb = $1,500
19. “Teachers and text books are assumed to be the source
of knowledge. Teachers ‘teach’ – they impart
knowledge to their students, who through practice and
assignments learn how to perform well on tests…This
is the very best model of pedagogy that
18th century technology can provide. It’s
teacher-centered model that is one way, one-size-fits-
all and the student is isolated in the learning process.”
- Don Tapscott, author, Growing Up Digital
28. Digital Natives
• born after 1980
• Technology has been a normal part of their
everyday lives for their whole lives
• accustomed to
– unrestricted access to information
– having to evaluate its quality, accuracy and
usefulness
– make sense of it in terms of their own life
36. • Meet people where they are
– be present in the myriad informal & unstructured
environments in which people learn
• Responding to challenges folks actually have
– So What?
• Serving as “more capable peers”
– Making our materials, expertise, and and insights
available
39. “...when students in the combined course completed an
interactive activity, they learned six times as much as those
who only read the material or watched the video”
40. “...when students in the combined
course completed an interactive
activity, they learned six times as much
as those who only read the material or
watched the video”
54. “Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as
if limits to our ability did not exist. We are
collaborators in creation.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
55. Create new worlds for learning
• Flipped
• Social
• Open
• Immersive
56. New Worlds for Learning
Stephen C. Bronack, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, College of Education
University of West Georgia
@bronack /bronack 2015 NEFA Summit
Notas del editor
And what she didn’t teach us, we learned from whatever books were available to us in our local libraries … >
Or, from the friends, neighbors, and other members available to us in our local communities. >
I’m suggesting we are doing it differently today
Wrote about the noosphere in 1922. Vatican made him stop publishing, which he did – but he didn’t stop writing. In the 1960’s he was rediscovered and, today, is recognized by church, science, and academy.
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We are surrounded by data and relationships; swimming in a sea of uber-connection.
For some, all this seems quite unnatural, and a bit overwhelming, sometimes. There’s a word for people like us.
in which ubiquitous, high-speed, 24 x 7 connectivity to all things and all people is not a result of technology, per se, but instead, is simply a component of their naturally-occurring world. But there is a new generation of “digital natives” is among us. These “Immediates.” they do not know a world without immediate, 24x7, high-speed, ubiquitous access to any content, any expert, and any community – delivered directly to them how, when, and where they need
They are social sharers; They were born into a world where a mediated connection with people and experiences is natural;
This blended, mediated sense of place, group, task and self is opening new worlds for learning
Learning is Open
Blends real and virtual
in supporting a new generation of connected learners and educators … I call them, the “Immediates” … for whom these technologies are natural extensions of their ways of knowing, being, and doing.
Wrote about the noosphere in 1922. Vatican made him stop publishing, which he did – but he didn’t stop writing. In the 1960’s he was rediscovered and, today, is recognized by church, science, and academy.