VicTeach Debate 2014

VicTeach Debate 2014 - Lecturers should have the ability to switch wifi off in teaching spaces
Arguing for the negative - Louise, Jonny and Stephen

L1 Affirmative (intro outlining L’s position, what L1,2 and 3 will discuss, argument/evidence L1 wishes to make) '''R1 Negative (intro outlining R’s position, what R1,2 and 3 will discuss, argument/evidence R1 wishes to make and possibly rebuttal of any points L1 made) '''

L2 Affirmative (reaffirm L’s position, provide evidence/argue and offer rebuttal for a key point from R1) '''R2 Negative (reaffirm R’s position, provide evidence/argue and offer rebuttal for a key point from L2) '''

L3 Affirmative (reaffirm L’s position, provide evidence/argue and offer rebuttal for a key point from R2) '''R3 Negative (reaffirm R’s position, provide evidence/argue and offer rebuttal for a key point from L3 – or possibly offer a concluding “vote for me” statement to balance L1 having the intro) '''

Brainstorming

 * Talk about the growth of ICT as a "second machine age". Steam and oil power enhanced physical capability and allowed the human race to exploit a vast energy reserve to rapidly expand both the scale and the quality of our civilization. ICT technologies potentially and increasingily enhance cognitive capability.
 * Modern education is dominated by a model developed to complement the first machine age, reflecting the values and needs of large factories and the British Empire. We are evolving to a model that reflects the needs of the second machine age.
 * Modern technology evolves by recombining existing enabling technologies to generate new ideas, improvements in power, display and networking technology all needed to happen to make devices like the iPhone practical. New educational technologies are no different and depend on those enabling infrastructures - without reliable and easily available wi-fi we don't get new ideas deployed and used effectively in the classroom (university context?)
 * clickers are 30 years old, modern use required pedagogical changes and now wi-fi so students can use their own devices to access GoSoapBox
 * Educated people are more effective when supported with appropriate technology
 * educated more effective than uneducated
 * AI systems are better than experts in some domains but not as flexible
 * Combination of AI and education is much more effective


 * Discuss the birth and schooling life of the digital native:
 * Show pictures of my lovely 4 year old who could swipe before she could speak
 * Overview the flexible and 'open device' environment of Amesbury School
 * Porirua is aiming to be the first gigatown in the southern hemisphere- place where all the students have digital technologies for learning and internet connectivity at home.
 * Overview MLE and project based learning environments in secondary schools
 * Recount the horror of these digital learners who have been immersed in connectivity and collaboration for 13 years who arrive in a 'leading open thought institution' to be greeted with a wall of digital silence with no way to express themselves in the manner that they have been able to since learning their basic facts from year one.

"I am tired of all this thing called science.... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped." - Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, demanding that the funding of the Smithsonian Institution be cut off, 1861 What is the purpose of a university?- VUW mission statement "developing graduates with skills in leadership, communication and critical and creative thinking". [how do we achieve this?]

Prisons use cellphone blocking technology- comparison here with the way we position students- conform, listen and be controlled. blocking wifi will effect those without 3g or 4g therefore need to block those as well (equity)

learning in a digital age at university what this involves:-NOT being made to sit in a large lecture theatre for one or two hours and hoping that students will listen to a person at the front or watch their words in powerpoint as they reveal them. Turning the wifi on or off may not make a difference if the person at the front is not charismatic or an outstanding teacher. What is needed is a way to leverage the tools and infrastructure to enable learning and the meeting of the mission statement.

Ways that wifi or UFB can enhance learning in a university setting:- 1. collaboration amongst students 2. range of different media to share ideas (not reliant on being told once in a lecture) 3. interactivity

Leadership:-

communication:

critical and creative thinking:-

How long do we have each? - 5 Minutes

Images
It struck me that we could have a set of images displayed behind us, and even another set to show as a commentary behind our opponents? I wonder whether we should also arrange to have a twitterfall and a GoSoapBox session running through the debate?


 * http://bryanhaggerty.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/look-at-them-apples.jpg
 * http://cdn.sciencefocus.com/sites/default/files/uploads/25360/RI_1855_0.jpg
 * http://byzstud.history.ox.ac.uk/medieval/images/medieval_lecture.jpg
 * http://www.aci-iac.ca/content/general/LectureSeries_Image.jpg
 * http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/school.jpeg
 * http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-06-21/