Thursday, October 4, 2007
Joey's Reflection on Interaction/Interactivity
Reflection on Interaction: to engage in Interactivity.
Terry Anderson http://it.coe.uga.edu/itform/paper63/paper63.htm
Highlights:
-Interaction is the number one debated topic among educators, most important to education.
-The likelihood of finding a perfect mix of interaction is low.
-Collaboration is key component of all forms of education both process and context
-Definition: Wagner’s (1994). Reciprocal events that require at least two objects and two actions.
-Functions of; learners control, facility, program adaptations based on learner input, various forms of participation communication.
-Interactivity key to formation of Leaning Communities and part of constructive learning theory.
-1916 John Dewey stated interaction is the defining component when information is passed from one student to another, resulting in construction of information.
6 types of interaction
1) Teacher-Teacher
2) Teach-Content
3) Content-Content
4) Student-Student
5) Student-Teacher
6) Student-Content
-No single media supports the educational experience in a manner that is superior in all ways to that supported via other media.
-Conclusions from informal surveys of students: wide range of needs preferences paces, synchronous asynchronous act, desire for exposure, differing modes of activities and provisions
Equivalency theorem:
1) Student-Teacher
2) Student-Student
3) Student-Content
Interaction above can be substituted with little loss of effectiveness
- Student Interaction: Teacher interaction currently has the highest perceived value amongst students and thus commands highest market value.
- Teacher Interaction: Some teacher interaction can be substantiated into learning objects (videos, animations, assessment programs etc.) thus migrating student-teacher interaction to student-content interaction.
- Content Interaction: The value of the content is dependent on the extent to which it engages students or teachers in interaction, leading to relevant knowledge construction –There is also a direct relationship between this capacity for interaction and resulting engagement mindfulness and motivation.
Classroom Delivery:
1) Low Level of student- student interaction
2) Medium Level student-content
- Distance Education Email- text allows for high levels of student content interaction.
- Web Based; Audio Video, Centra, ELuminate, have the same technical and pedagogical pluses and minuses of earlier video and audio graphic systems.
Conclusion- Author hopes people will engage in dialogue about interaction, think critically about the role of human interaction with non human entities.
Interactivity,
Joey
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