Next Horizon VCOP Meeting Jul 27 noon EDT
Our next Horizon VCOP meeting will be a presentation on Wed Jul 27 at noon EDT. Details below:
Title: Avoiding Self-Delusion: New Technologies and Expectation Effects
Presenter: Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D., President, Hippasus
One fine day you come into your office, and find everyone singing the praises of a new technology for the classroom - or perhaps complaining bitterly about it. The question in your mind is, though, is it solely the technology's pedagogical merits that are causing these reactions, or are there other factors at work? For instance, could novelty and the expectations that surround it be causing the observed results? Join us as we discuss how expectation effects can confound the evaluation of new classroom practices, how to improve your evaluation methods so as to clear away this fog, and how to apply this methodology to the upcoming technologies discussed in the Horizon Report.
When: Wed Jul 27 noon EDT [For your time zone: http://tinyurl.com/8qpwy ]
Where: iCohere Horizon web space [ http://www.conferences.iCohere.com/horizon ] and phone conference. If you want to invite colleagues to come along and they aren't members, please do. They can use the guest login to Horizon [user id = Horizon, password = guest] and we can fix them up with a permanent login after the meeting.
Horizon VCOP Team
http://www.horizonvcop.org/
Title: Avoiding Self-Delusion: New Technologies and Expectation Effects
Presenter: Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph.D., President, Hippasus
One fine day you come into your office, and find everyone singing the praises of a new technology for the classroom - or perhaps complaining bitterly about it. The question in your mind is, though, is it solely the technology's pedagogical merits that are causing these reactions, or are there other factors at work? For instance, could novelty and the expectations that surround it be causing the observed results? Join us as we discuss how expectation effects can confound the evaluation of new classroom practices, how to improve your evaluation methods so as to clear away this fog, and how to apply this methodology to the upcoming technologies discussed in the Horizon Report.
When: Wed Jul 27 noon EDT [For your time zone: http://tinyurl.com/8qpwy ]
Where: iCohere Horizon web space [ http://www.conferences.iCohere.com/horizon ] and phone conference. If you want to invite colleagues to come along and they aren't members, please do. They can use the guest login to Horizon [user id = Horizon, password = guest] and we can fix them up with a permanent login after the meeting.
Horizon VCOP Team
http://www.horizonvcop.org/
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