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An Invitation to Innovation
The answers to important questions about technology and education can be found when a diverse array of committed people get around a table and talk creatively and honestly about where they aim to go.
The World Economic Forum reports that you need the ten skills listed below to thrive in 2020:
(1) Complex problem solving
(2) Critical thinking
(3) Creativity
(4) People management
(5) Coordinating with others
(6) Emotional intelligence
(7) Judgement and decision making
(8) Service orientation
(9) Negotiation
(10) Cognitive flexibility
Students raise awareness by creating a documentary film using Premiere Rush instead of writing a research paper.
"Our Lives Together" by Carrie Lewis
Prototype.
Collaborate.
Publish.
Design.
Raise Awareness.
Compose.
Create.
Context: The Third (or Fourth) Industrial Revolution
New York Times: "Welcome to the Post-Text Future"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/09/technology/the-rise-of-a-visual-internet.html
"I’ll make this short: The thing you’re doing now, reading prose on a screen, is going out of fashion. . . . The defining narrative of our online moment concerns the decline of text, and the exploding reach and power of audio and video."
- Farhad Manjoo
High-Impact, Hi-Touch, Experiential, Applied, Active Teaching and Learning
- Students are no longer passive consumers of knowledge and information.
- Students become active producers of knowledge and information.
- Learning by doing, making, problem-solving = creative, critical thinking and learning.
- Learning outcomes and capacities that transfer
At UNC Chapel Hill, we are using Adobe Creative Cloud as a "virtual maker space" that travels with students wherever they go:
to produce and circulate intellectual work
to critically and creatively solve problems for themselves, their communities, families, professions, institutions, and organizations
The Essential Skill for the Information Age
(1) Identify, locate, or generate the best information
(2) Discover or analyze a pattern within the information
(3) Articulate a perspective, solution, or call-to-action based upon analysis
FOUR STUDENTS
Education: Julio "Our Kids in Cages"
Patient Care: Carrie "Our Lives Together"
Community Engagement: Sarah "Historic Occoneechee Speedway"
Research, Innovation & Economic Development: Maneesha and Scientific Tar Heel
"Our Lives Together" is a documentary short film made by Carrie Lewis, who had never made a film before this class. The film tells the story of a family's poignant struggle with Alzheimer's disease through the words of loving, faithful wife and her thoughtful, caring son.
In what kinds of courses/departments might "Our Lives Together" belong?
From a Student Experience perspective, how might an assignment like "Our Lives Together" compare with a conventional research paper on such a topic?
From a Faculty perspective, how might an assignment like "Our Lives Together" compare with a conventional research paper on such a topic?
https://speedwayproject.myportfolio.com/
Omni-Literate Students Who Learn to Solve Problems through Design Thinking
TOOL vs. INSTRUMENT
Critical Literacy = From Knowledge Consumers to Knowledge Producers
Critical Digital Literacy = From Media/Information Consumers to Media/Information Producers
Digital Literacy Pedagogy is not just merely aesthetic; it's epistemological.
Digital Literacy Pedagogy is not just surface, it's substance.
1) Early success and retention
2) Success across the curriculum and time-to-degree through transformative, high-impact, experiential learning
Watch One -- Do One -- Teach One
Adobe Creative Cloud is a Virtual Maker Space that travels with students where they live and work through their mobile devices.
https://issuu.com/tiffanyfriedman/docs/scientific_tar_heel_vol._1
3) Success on the job market: Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication
4) Success as life-long learners
"I thought of you because I am now in charge of my division's blog; I just utilized some HTML code that you taught me during my freshman year [2000]! When I reflect back on how I have used the skills you taught in that class, I am amazed by what a positive impact you've had on my life. By using multimedia, you helped me understand the importance of strong communication skills as well as given me unique skills [that others in my profession do not have]."
Faculty Development and Support
Free Online Textbook: Adobe Creative Cloud Across the Curriculum
Todd Taylor Online Portfolio and this Presentation
https://toddtaylor.myportfolio.com/
Adobe Education Exchange "Turn-key" Teaching Modules
https://edex.adobe.com/member/2148d786/
Ten Commandments for Innovating with Instructional Technology
Credits:
Created with images by Pexels - "hands spinning workshop" • Miguel Henriques - "untitled image" • arvin febry - "untitled image" • Lachlan Donald - "Ghost town tool shed" • rawpixel - "untitled image" • Parsing Eye - "Deadvlei 💀" • Skitterphoto - "apple tree garden" • mp1746 - "apple pie dining food sweet baker taste" • Art Poskanzer - "heating manifold" • skeeze - "discovery space shuttle launch mission astronauts liftoff"