Class Notes

Apple Conference Update

• Abeline Christian University - gave out iPhones and iPods to the entire student body
• iBYU app?
• Technology Life Cycle - Ruben Puentedura

BYU: 30,000 students, 1,500 full-time faculty. 1:20

Elementary School: 800 students, 25 full-time faculty. 1:32

InvestTools: 40,000 active students, 100 full-time faculty: 1:400

Open High School : 130 students, 4 teachers: 1:22

1:1 ratio found in informal learning contexts: families, marriages, tutoring, learning by the Spirit...

Sooooo...

• We need to teach people how to seek out the necessary resources to LEARN.
  
• Ideas: Teams, Peer Groups, "crowd sourcing," Teams + Instructor

Part of mentoring is helping students recognize when they're in the zone of proximal development.

ZPD --> Metacognition --> Efficacy/Responsibility

Key Ideas, Commenting on the idea of the 2-Sigma Problem:

• Performance - Did the student acquire new knowledge, skills, abilities to solve new problems?
• Context
  
• Mastery Learning
• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
• Ratios
• Feedback (frequency)
  
• Customized Learning
• Computer-Aided Instruction
• Characteristics of tutors/mentors, whether that matters
• Learning Efficacy/Responsibility
• Love
  

How can we make sure each student has mastery instead of group mastery approach? --> Using computers to do that. --> Limitations of using computers. --> What can we do, using computer frameworks, to achieve mastery learning?

*Between now and next week, come prepared with 3 or 4 sentences that summarize all of these concepts. What are the 3 or 4 things you can say about the most effective way to help people learn? Let's see if they're similar.

Maybe in the future we can turn this into a thought piece about these things.