Gary,
On the contrary, my experience is that most (though not all) professors
nearly-automatically reject most new technology as being mere "fluff"
until they are dragged there kicking and screaming by their own
students. Articles like this one only reinforce their seemingly-natural
(not to mention ironic) resistance to learn anything new (outside of
their narrow field of research). Now, if what you object to is
professors simply converting their classroom lectures into "podcasts"
(read: into mp3 files that could be loaded on to one's mp3 player) that
obviously has limited pedagogical value, but it also hardly expends to
potential of podcasting.
If you're coming to SF for APA, I invite you to my talk "Revenge of the
MP3 player: Podcasting for the Classroom." Or you can just go to the
site for my podcast series, "This Week in the History of Psychology"
(http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/ ). Ask yourself whether I could
have gotten those 27 historians of psychology to physically parade
through my classroom over the course of the term, and whether it is
valuable to have students hear what these folks have to say directly
from their own mouths, rather than simply having them read the
simplified, tenderized, homogenized accounts typically provided by
textbooks.
Regards,
Chris
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Gary Klatsky wrote:
If you look at some of the faculty on my campus, and others I assume,
they automatically jump on the "new technology bandwagon" without any
critical analysis. The latest bandwagon has been podcasting. I
don't know how many conferences and symposiums I have been invited to
that address incorporating podcasting in your curriculum. My reading
of the article, maybe na¨ve, was to point out that podcasting is not a
panacea. You also get the knee jerk response against the use of
technology for the same reason. They view technology as the ends not
the means. I also can't count the number of articles, presentations
and such decrying PowerPoint as an inherent evil.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D.
Director, Human Computer Interaction M.A. Program
Department of Psychology [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University (SUNY) http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
7060 State Hwy 104W Voice: (315) 312-3474
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*From:* Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:43 AM
*To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
*Subject:* [tips] Re: Consensus: Podcasting Has No 'Inherent'
Pedagogic Value
Gary Klatsky wrote:
"A bevy of recent studies on students' experience listening to
recorded lectures via podcasts confirms what many lecturers already
know: that the pedagogical value of podcasts depends almost entirely
on student motivation and the learning "context" of the application."
http://campustechnology.com/articles/49018/
What a load of malarkey. Of course podcasting doesn't have "inherent"
pedagogical value (whatever that might mean). Neither do textbooks
have "inherent" pedagogical value, nor chalkboards, nor even
classrooms themselves. And once one gets past the misleading headline,
that point is made clear even by the person who did the study: "As
with any educational technology, whether and how podcasting impacts
the quality of the learning experience and/or educational outcomes
depends largely upon how the technology is put to use."
I'm not sure who produces "Campus Technology" or why, but with so
transparent a hatchet job as this, I'll be sure not to read them
again. Does Karl Rove work for them? "Democrats exude million of
gallons of sweat into environment every year!" :-)
Regards,
Chris
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Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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