{"id":385,"date":"2010-03-16T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/cracking-the-books-user-generated-content-in-education\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:31:28","slug":"cracking-the-books-%e2%80%98-user-generated-content-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the Books \u2018 User-Generated Content in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 16, 2010<br \/>Presenters:<br \/>Clyde Boyer &#8211; Trinity Education Group<br \/>Ron Reed &#8211; RL Reed Consulting<br \/>Anita Givens &#8211; Texas Education Agency<br \/>Margarita Pinkos &#8211; MPinkos Education Consultants<\/p>\n<p>Description:<br \/>&quot;Age considers; youth ventures.&quot; This aphorism has never seemed more real than in a typical U.S. public school classroom: the students are operating on several levels simultaneously in media-saturated environments, while classroom teachers and publishers all seem to be standing on the sidelines, trying to catch up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8\">Canon YouTube Video<\/a> put together by a student in Korea. Hundreds of people have learned to play this song just by this video. This is a very atypical learning (informal) learning environment.<\/p>\n<p>Type 3 words into YouTube for what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish. Search for &quot;Graphinc Linear Equations.&quot; Students post comments thanking the poster for putting the information online. Same &quot;think you&quot; comments from GED test-taker as well as an honors math student.<\/p>\n<p>Education Trends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobility<\/li>\n<li>User Created Content<\/li>\n<li>Learning Communities (youtube, facebook, social netoworking&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Culture eats strategy every day of the week.<br \/>What is the culture of these user-created learning content? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Vinton Cerf was the hero of a dark world (father of the internet)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All these computers in the world, but they can talk now!<\/li>\n<li>Learning: Change = opportunity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Connections System from Rice University <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/cnx.org\/\">http:\/\/cnx.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CMS for educational content<\/li>\n<li>Repository of that educational content<\/li>\n<li>Spreads the content in various different ways (online, mobile, hard copy textbook).<\/li>\n<li>Over 15,000 modules woven into nearly 1000 collections<\/li>\n<li>Everything is modularized for repurpose if needed, update a module at a time, not the entire book.<\/li>\n<li>Openness &#8211; everyone can create content! Unfortunately not everything is wonderful because of this. How do you maintain quality? Lenses.<\/li>\n<li>Lenses &#8211; allowing for the good quality people to endorse good high-quality content.<\/li>\n<li>Frictionless Remixing &#8211; you can put in new stuff whenever you want or need (xml and OAI). Everything is Creative Commons based licensed.<\/li>\n<li>Customization &#8211; lightweight branding vs. full-scale branding in your own window. Zoning &#8211; community can rope off areas (k-12 doesn&#8217;t need to see medical content). Enterprise Rhaptos &#8211; states can run their own version of the software.<\/li>\n<li>Textbooks are still the #1 way of learning in the US. Technology isn&#8217;t always available to move away from that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ning Network <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ning.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ning.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build your own social network around whatever areas you need.<\/li>\n<li>Over 1,400 educators are sharing information and practice in this network. &quot;You met each other once at this event, come back and share more.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Share what you&#8217;re doing in the classroom with other teachers. <\/li>\n<li>Mentoring happening, Find out what works and doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>No course management system from Ning, so the system is still evolving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up a virtual island in Second Life.<\/li>\n<li>For teaching ready to be on the cutting edge, this works really well.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like a webinar with an avatar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A design asks questions, &quot;what problem are we solving?&quot;<\/li>\n<li>What are we solving with open source textbooks? What do textbooks solve?<br \/>It&#8217;s a pathway to literacy.<\/li>\n<li>The most telling thing we&#8217;re solving with open source textbooks is cost. States don&#8217;t have a lot of money right now. Many changes are, and always will be driven by cost.<\/li>\n<li>Not only is the cost lower for these textbooks, but many times the quality is higher. <\/li>\n<li>Challenges: How do you get textbooks? Vetting sometimes lowers the quality of textbooks. Looking at this&#8230; do we even need textbooks?<\/li>\n<li>What if we allow students and learning groups to define their own resources? Kids <em>can<\/em> structure their own resources. <\/li>\n<li>Textbooks are written for the classroom (one single source) and NOT for students. A single student will have issues accessing that only source.<\/li>\n<li>Students will probably figure things out before we (educators) do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What states are doing the best job leveraging the best learner created content?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas is going a pretty good job. There is an open-access education initiative that puts Texas in the forefront because it allows open content to be used as the primary text. California allows it to be used, but only as a supporting text.<\/li>\n<li>Open texts are being taken on world-wide &#8211; China, Brazil. There are many forces against it in the US.<\/li>\n<li>The access to technology in large enough numbers may be limiting this too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s being done to incent people to contribute<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give teachers professional visibility (teachers are busy). <\/li>\n<li>Add e-commerce system to the system, and add some sort of payment. Trade funds for creation and\/or use. What about .99 for a lesson plan (ala Apple)?<\/li>\n<li>If you publish in an open setting, you&#8217;re more likely to get it used world-wide &#8211; tenure calls for this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 16, 2010Presenters:Clyde Boyer &#8211; Trinity Education GroupRon Reed &#8211; RL Reed ConsultingAnita Givens &#8211; Texas Education AgencyMargarita Pinkos &#8211; MPinkos Education Consultants Description:&#034;Age considers; youth ventures.&#034; This aphorism has never seemed more real than in a typical U.S. public school classroom: the students are operating on several levels simultaneously in media-saturated environments, while [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}