ICCE Conference Friday 8 December 2017

Day two - Lou met Ania - who is a passionate educator and a straight shooter (Polish - Doctor)

#190F: Reading for emotion with ICT tools Ania Lian

Educational literature constructs the use of the digital technology - as a communication-mediating device rather than a quality that can be utilized for assisting learning.

Processing load
Data storage
Innovative - environment

Reading for emotional - example

Geography task - Purpose or who are are we presenting to? Why are we doing it?  Contextualization?

There is a tendency for teachers to teach like "I do, we do, you do" - then we call it creativity.

Alan Luke (2000), Critical literacy Australia.

Antonio Damasiao - emotions being the initial process in neurological steps before we decide what to think and do.

Setting Focus (feel) - Disturbance - Dialogue -Development - Resolution - Moral

What do you want the reader to feel? Alert? Aware? Happy? Cautious?

What tools would you use?

www.catalinaastase.com


End of the conference:

Next ICCE conference - Sebastian Deterding (Gameful design - gamification) in the Philipines - Manilla (26-30 November 2018).

ICCE conference Thursday 7 December 2017

ICCE presentation - Day 2

Lou got to present at the conference and got some great feedback about next steps for the Ka Pai App and where to next.

Link to the presentation

The presentation focused on sharing the concept of the paper rather than any particular findings as research as not been completed yet.  However, the Ka Pai app got some great feedback including:

• How could we make the student interface have self-reflection on their own behaviour?
• Making sure that the app has aroha (care) and maintains the whanaungatanga (relationship) in its processes and engagement.

Discussions after the presentation - 

Ania, Nilufar and Natalia (Profs - who Lou had feedback from) 

• What theorists can provide evidence of using the model of the Ka Pai App for improving teacher behaviour?
• How might we use a model to explain what the app does, supported by either game-based, a game designed or gamified teacher?
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Afternoon Session - highlights

Lou met Bao Lu - who is a masters student who has created a tool can POE (Prediction, Observation and Evaluation) tool for teachers to gamify students learning of science.

Mingfong Jan (Professor - University of Taiwan) -  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JD6DhTcAAAAJ&hl=en

Jan shares a few observations on game-based learning, motivation is not a driving factor in learning. The impact of game-based learning on literacy is very low in Asia Pacific.

When we think about game-based learning when games are bought into a classroom. A lot of innovative games are missing social practices (learning cultures).

A sad comparison to educational games is that commercial game designers are very active in engaging their clients as compared to teachers.  James Gee - content fetish around the mastery of the content then processes or social.

Teachers try to teach students how to play/win rather than a way of being or a mindset to a social change in values. Players become students. The game becomes the content that must be taught at a similar pace and the same way.

Mingfong found that in the case study "prey versus predator" -  the game failed to understand food chains or natural law. The teachers could end up only focusing on using the game based approach to teach content rather than the bigger picture about the how the world works in regards to natural law.

#48S: Interaction between standardization and research in drafting an international specification on learning analytics 
by Tore Hoel and Weiqin Chen

• standards, are a form of creating a form of capital or commodity thus needing a set of procedure makes for the good design process. 
• Design based activity - ADR (cooperation of Researchers, Practitioners and End users)

#79S: Train-For-Life: on-line interactive training for industry learners 

Bashar Barmada and Nilufar Baghaei

• The project is about the MOOCs and the use of the academic learners and how challenging it is to be involved in academic research due to the professional career. sWhat is the best way to go about supporting the industry professionals - more than 700 
• In the industry sector - the content is not owned by the companies  
• The sectors include in transport and logistics and are for professionals who are actually needing 

 Nilufar (Lou's supervisor) had some technical difficulties, so she had to cut the presentation to a speech. Five academics has to help get the projector working again. 

ICCE conference Wednesday 6 December

Lou is attending the International conference for computers in Education in Christchurch this week.

Presenting on Thursday 7 December 2017
Practice Driven research,teacher professional development and policy of ICT in Education (PTP).

Some questions already emerging:

How could we show the effect size of the Ka Pai based on behaviour or academic data?

Is there a correlation between the Ka Pai app to stand down rates and academic peformance? 

Dr Mike Sharples : www.inquire-it.org

Judy Kay - University of Sydney - Australia

Personal Informatics for Learning (PIL)- interfaces 

Empowering people with learning analytics at the individual level.

Open learner model- a representation of our learners within our model

Aim: Allowing the learner - to track their progress. 

1. Identify AOs

2. Collect evidence

3. Share the information

PI - ubiquitous learning model - quantified self (if I have ways of collecting data about our selves)

Weapons of Math destruction - the lust of measuring data that which you desire ends up causing us to forget why we were measuring data is in the first place.  - Cathy O'Neil.

Personal data mining - What use is an interface onto personal learning data?

How am I doing against my personal goals - metacognition, metacognitive process, self-awareness,  feeling of knowing? 

It's about creating data - Case study 

Physical Activity data over the long-term 

What do people do to gather their personal data?  The claim is that I can reflect, plan and monitor. 

Learning how you do at eating enough vegetables? 

FIT design (lock screen) - Gerhard maybe able to use this with the multiplication learning 

TRAC - WIKI (ticket based)

Surface and multimedia touch and speech in context - Content drove the model or map of nutritional education for teachers.  The dashboard was created and also a kinnect sensor and coded and put into a learning algorithm.  

Launching the Ka Pai App

Welcome everyone!

Check out the latest on the Ka Pai App - Lou will be presenting the following presentation to the ICCE conference.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ebYDXFeqngWlipMCVUdH5LAXhKxVO_-WLwDi6iipHH8/edit#slide=id.g2a0bef3506_0_26