Chris,
I certainly agree that there are great implementations of technology that enhance the learning experience. But those benefits of educational technology are not automatic. I have made use of your podcast series and hold them up as an example of how technology can enhance learning. Unfortunately there are too many faculty who believe a podcast of their lecture along with a PowerPoint slide show is sound pedagogy. I serve on our campus technology advisory board and all too often there is never an assessment of the pedagogical benefits of a new technological advancement. I dont believe the article I posted came out against podcasting, only that the benefits are only as good as how they are implemented. Unfortunately, I wont be in San Francisco and will miss your presentation. I was there last fall for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting and had a great time. 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 Oswego, NY 13126 Fax: (315) 312-6330 All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:14 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Consensus: Podcasting Has No 'Inherent' Pedagogic Value 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 ============= 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 dont know how many conferences and symposiums I have been invited to that address incorporating podcasting in your curriculum. My reading of the article, maybe naïve, 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 cant 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 Oswego, NY 13126 Fax: (315) 312-6330 All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein 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/> 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 -- Christopher D. 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