I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the presentations over the past few weeks. I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing the research and experience that your colleagues have brought to these presentations. I’m compiling all of the resources shared by presenters in the weekly posts and you can locate them based on when they were presented. Next week we will have our final presentation and our final class for EDCI 565.

Learning through Storytelling with Digital Tools – Brenda & Zaineb

Building an online community – Matt & Julia

For next week

I have a short reading I would like you to engage with before we meet again next week. It looks forward in the field of learning design at what could be coming next in terms of sharing, reusing, documenting, and rewarding thoughtful learning designs in school contexts. You can find the reading linked here, remember that the password is the CRN number for the course as listed in the syllabus.

I will be interested in your thoughts on this and your general ideas about the future of learning design. Please do make at least one annotation on the reading using hypothesis and come prepared next week to talk about your own ideas around future applications of learning design.

I’m providing three visual provocations for thinking about this task.

Note: You can find the entire collection of French postcards here, they are fun and in the public domain for remix and reinterpretation. I also encourage you to experiment with Wombo AI generative art, to see what kind of creative works it can compose. 

 

People have been thinking about the future and the role of technology in shaping the future for many years. Now is no different, although we are faced with many new, emerging, and not well understood technologies pervasive and becoming ubiquitous in our society. I am asking you to think about the future, you can be hopeful and/or dystopian, and bring forward some ideas for discussion next week.

Questions for consideration:

  • What could come next in terms of changing practices around learning design?
  • What can you imagine having a real impact in the space of your classroom and impacting student learning within the next 25 years?
  • Be speculative about future technologies not yet created (employ Science Fiction Thinking) and how they might impact schools?
  • Optional, read The Fun They Had, by Isaac Asimov (1951) imagining the classroom of 2155.