Steve's+heuristics

**Heuristic 1:**

**//The medium is not the message, use a medium that best supports the message.//**

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**Comments?:** Here are some suggestions from Shirley (SA):

Re: heuristic statement - rephrase it as a guiding principle or "tip" to inform someone else on how to design online learning and teaching -eg., "The medium is not the message so always consider pedagogy first then how the technology could help"

Also for your assignment - paraphrase your explanation so it's more like academic writing eg., This heuristics surfaced from DiPietro et al (2008) and is supported by McLuhan (add reference). Explain your heuristic, then add your experience with the DET laptop roll-out to illustrate your point. I hope this helps.

SG - Thanks Shirley. I was focussing more on a conversational style in the wiki. I've cut that and pasted a more academic write-up, that I'd consider submitting. Is that what you were suggesting?

SA 13/8/10: Had a quick scan through - very well done! (minor suggestion - explain how heuristics emerged 1st - ie, move paragraph 2 up.)

**Heuristic 2:**

**//Hidden assumptions structure educational values, changing the assumptions demands changing the values.//**

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**Comments:**

SG - I'd really appreciate some feedback on this heuristic. I don't think I've really nailed what I wanted to say - that I think that schools need a fundamental shift to reflect the shift society is undergoing with the introduction of Web 2.0. Also that schools wont bridge the divide between informal education that digital natives engage in willingly, and formal education's struggling attempts to utilize Web 2.0 technology until this shift happens in schools.

Hi Steve,

I have read your blogg, it is a very interesting idea! I have recently come across an interactive concept-mapping tool called “Prezi” ([]) which might be able to assist you in what you are trying to do. Here is an example that relates to your area of interest, teaching math.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[|http://prezi.com/aww2hjfyil0u/math-is-not-linear][|/]

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Regards, Chris

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Thanks Chris, that tool is pretty interesting. I'd like to combine it with voice overs, I'll have more of a play with it. SG

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Hi Steve and Chris,

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Just a quick comment about Prezi (I've been using it with my students since Term 2), alll content is available to the public (unless you purchase user rights). So, whatever you do, make sure your students don't include anything personal about themselves because everyone else can see it.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Vicki <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Thanks for that, Vicki.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Heuristic 3: draft**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**//As an educator, you value-add through your relationship with learners, so consider the ‘voice’ of your computer mediated communications.//**

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Comments:**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">I'd like some comment on the idea that different CMC tools have a different quality of 'voice', there is a different feel to the communication over each media. I tried to to describe it in the blog 'Putting on my blog voice' [|here]. Any one else have a sense of this?

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Shirley 17/8: interesting observation Steve. It all seems driven by the purpose of the interaction and the nature of the interaction eg., synchronous and asynchronous - as to what "voice" is evoked. See if the text by Gilly Salmon (suggested reading for WEeks 3 and 4) has anything - otherwise try and search for papers that report on CMC analysis.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Heuristic 4:**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**E//ncourage authentic conversations about learning, to provide feedback about transfer, an audit of what’s learned and to assist the construction of meaning.//**

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Shirley 17/8: Sorry but I don't understand the point you're making. Suggestion - make it a clearer guideline