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Place: Baker University Center Ballroom
Provost Dr. Stephen Kopp will share his thoughts on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Light refreshments will be served before the keynote session.
Place: Baker University Center Ballroom
Alan Lesgold, University of Pittsburgh, will speak on the subject of "Some Candidate Principles for Designing Tools for Learning."
After more than two decades of work related to applications of information technologies for learning, some very basic principles have become quite evident to me. The first is that we learn primarily by doing and reflecting. Accordingly, anything that facilitates doing hard cognitive work, getting help when impasses are reached, and reflecting afterwards on what has been done will be productive. Technologies that do not handle well are three components -- simulation or other ways of presenting realistic hard tasks, coaching to resolve impasses, and reflection opportunities -- will be relatively ineffective. A second principle is that cultural knowledge is needed to make it easy to use a technology. If the training course in how to use a technology is long and complex, it will not get used well and probably won't be used much at all. I will discuss these principles, some evidence for them, and some things that follow from them, using as sources of experience my work with colleagues on intelligent training systems for complex troubleshooting tasks, work on an argument environment for science education, and work on professional development environments on networks.
Alan Lesgold received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1971 and joined Learning Research and Development Center and the Department of Psychology of the University of Pittsburgh that same year. He is a fellow of the Divisions of Experimental, Applied, and Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association, a fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a past president of the Society for Computers in Psychology. In 1995, he was awarded the Educom Medal by Educom and the American Psychological Association for contributions to educational technology. In September 1999, the Open University of the Netherlands awarded him an honorary doctorate. Lesgold served on the National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment from 1993 through 1998 and chaired the Board's Roundtable on Schooling, Work, and Assessment. He also served on two Congressional Office of Technology Assessment advisory panels and was the chair of the Visiting Panel on Research of Educational Testing Service. Lesgold and colleagues developed a technology of intelligently coached learning by doing over the period from 1986 to the present, in partnerships with the U.S. Air Force, US WEST, and Intel Corporation. More recently, he and his colleagues also developed a technology for supporting rich collaborative engagement with complex issues and complex bodies of knowledge. This work is now being applied to professional development as part of LRDC's Institute for Learning, a partnership with urban school systems for standards-based school system restructuring.
Anita Leach and Dick Piccard revised this page (http://www.ohiou.edu/learningfair/2003/keynote.html) on January 29, 2003.
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