These are presentation slides shared by Wesley Fryer on April 12, 2011, at the Intellectual Warrior's Conference in Lawton, Oklahoma, at Fort Sill. The title of the presentation was, "Effective Uses of Educational Technology: Blended, Continuous Learning in the 21st Century Military." Contact information for Wesley is available on http://www.wesfryer.com/contact

1. Effective Uses of
Educational Technology
Blended, Continuous Learning in the 21st
Century Military
Intellectual
Warrior’s
Conference
by Wesley Fryer
12 April 2011 www.speedofcreativity.org
Ft Sill, OK wiki.wesfryer.com
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2. “Any sufficiently developed technology is
indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C Clark
by Juliana Coutinho
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3. "The future is
already here —
it's just not very
evenly
distributed."
- William Gibson
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4. www.flickr.com/photos/ivyfield/4486938191
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5. http://contxts.com
TXT WFRYER TO 50500
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6. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9NGAV3-3k
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8. Goals Today
• provoke and challenge new thinking about
the learning environment
• its challenges and opportunities
• the effective roles of educational
technology
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9. Questions
• What is possible now?
• What does this mean for students?
• What does this mean for instructors
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10. <1>
stories
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11. www.flickr.com/photos/krtribunal/5168442519
lecture based instruction is marginally effective
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12. www.rogerschank.com
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13. www.flickr.com/photos/markgallagher/45242144
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14. www.flickr.com/photos/expertinfantry/5417503618
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15. Lesson #1:
training must involve more stories
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16. www.storychasers.org
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17. <2>
HUDs &
pedagogy
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18. www.ezgear.com/ALL/ezVisionGallery.html
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19. www.flickr.com/photos/usarak/5151518261
Land Warrior Heads-up Display System
(Nov 2010, Alaska, 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team)
www.flickr.com/photos/kylemay/1573158163
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20. www.flickr.com/photos/barkbud/4140020420
navigate multiple sources of competing information
(under stress)
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21. 27
www.nytimes.com/
April Text 2010/04/27/world/
2010
27powerpoint.html
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22. Bloom’s Taxonomy (old)
edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy
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23. 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy
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24. Lesson #2:
most effective learning
is active
& creative
(training must include multiple, competing inputs)
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25. <3>
keys
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26. Framework Keys:
• mobile learning
• blended learning
• individualized assessment
• virtual environments
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27. mobile learning
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28. blended learning
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29. individualized assessment (portfolios)
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30. virtual simulations
April 2006
www.wired.com/wired/archive/
14.04/learn.html
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31. Gaming tends to be regarded as a harmless diversion at
best, a vile corruptor of youth at worst. But the usual
critiques fail to recognize its potential for experiential
learning. Unlike education acquired through textbooks,
lectures, and classroom instruction, what takes place in
massively multiplayer online games is what we call
accidental learning. It's learning to be - a natural byproduct
of adjusting to a new culture - as opposed to learning
about. Where traditional learning is based on the execution
of carefully graded challenges, accidental learning relies on
failure.Virtual environments are safe platforms for trial and
error. The chance of failure is high, but the cost is low and
the lessons learned are immediate.
www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html
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32. Lessons
• Blended Curriculum Required
• Multimedia Class Preparation
• Multiple Assessments (including sims)
• Continuous Digital Learning Portfolio
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33. homework
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37. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
www.flickr.com/photos/johne777/4138895285
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
- Arthur C Clark
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38. Effective Uses of
Educational Technology
Blended, Continuous Learning in the 21st
Century Military
Intellectual
Warrior’s
Conference
by Wesley Fryer
12 April 2011 www.speedofcreativity.org
Ft Sill, OK wiki.wesfryer.com
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