Going Cyber doing it better
Ted Nellen, Cybrarian
Murry Bergtraum HS
Cyber Courses getting it done
Cyber courses:
Utilize the Internet and related technology to fulfill the curriculum.
- Are driven by pedagogy.
- Provide greater access to resources and community.
- Allow for more inter disciplinary study.
- Put the scholars at the center of learning.
Why do a Cyber Course
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Cyber
Scholar does
Audience is Many
Nearly All Students do
Equity
Flexible Structure
User Friendly
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Traditional
Teacher does
Audience is One
Too Few Students do
Inequity
Rigid Structure
Not User Friendly
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Dewey learn by doing
Dewey introduced this idea at the turn of this century and it is finally being realized.
- "Doing proceeds from needs to know, to grasp a thing intellectually or theoretically…"
- "..of doing and not being done to.."
- "..of doing and undergoing the consequences of doing."
Constructivism is doers doing
Internet is where we do what we do
Telnet, FTP , IRC, Gopher, Lynx, WWW
email, listserv, chat, MOO, browse, surf
Power of the Internet:
- Publishing
- Audience
- User Driven
- Access to Resources and Community
Publishing reflects on the doers doing
- Goal of Writers, to publish
- Multiple Forms of Expression
- Scholars construct their web pages
- Their work is published.
- They are considering design, font, graphics, color as well as the content.
- They are interacting, socializing…
Audience reacts to the doers doing
Audience
- Increases from one to many.
- Allows for efficient peer review.
- Access to many talented netizens from retirees to student-teachers who can now have access as telementors in the schools.
- Parents are communicating with their children through email.
Scholars are doers doing
- own webpage
- own email
- time management
- regents
- SCANS
- School-to-Career
- Self
Resources to help get it done
- primary, secondary, tertiary sources.
- Credibility issues
- Government, Academic, Commercial
- Access tomes of information
Move from Vertical to Horizontal
- Onus is on the scholar
- from top down to shared decision making.
- Nearly all scholars do not just a few
- from sage on stage to guide by the side.
- Quality not Quantity.
Bringing Community to the Schools
Power:
Power to the user
Power to the Community
Power to the Schools
Power to the People
Conclusion doodles
- Dewey: learn by doing
- Constructivism: is doers doing
- Internet: where we do what we do
- Publishing: reflects on the doers doing
- Audience: peer, telementor, parent
- Empower Scholars: ownership
- Vertical to Horizontal: leadership
- Community: involvement
Cyber English doing a cyber course
Ted Nellen
Murry Bergtraum HS