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Where the Digital Heart is-- Bringing the Human Face to Technology
Hall Davidson keynote
6-18-2002
www.halldavidson.net
Research shows people learn more and retain more when they are laughing
Hall is a visual guy
- we have lots of students all around us with lots of visual intelligences
This is not a talk about futurism, the big picture
- right now is good to talk about, it can be applied right away in your classrooms
- right now we need techniques that we can apply today
NOWISM: classrooms have needs
- he has a daughter in kindergarten, asked to fix the printer in his daughters class
Needs to talk about the urgency of what we are doing: bringing visual elements into learning
- bought clipart from iWire for $40 of dog drinking out of a toilet
written lanugage is about 5500 years
Ag 10,000 years old
Cave drawings 30,000 years old
Our ancesters were making images long before
- compared cave drawing of a horse with Marlboro ad of man riding a horse
- don't have to look at data, we see commercials every day
In super bowl, people paid $2-3 million for 30 seconds of time
Advertisers know that visually delivered information will stick in your brain, and you will access it when you need it
- they have opened the affective domain
This is what we want to do in schools, we should learn from business and commerce
- we want students to retain information and recall it when needed.
We have lots of images in education but we don't alwa
Images we see the most are based on the human face
- has the most recognition
- watch on TV how many times human faces come on the screen
Hall used HyperStudio
Text is something people have to learn
- text wasn't around for everyone
- Armenia didn't get text until they needed to write the Bible
- Socrates and Plato didn't write anything
- in a Greek Court writing meant nothing, in the Golden Age they had to have witnesses
Language has to be learned also
- some rare individuals raised without being talked to can't speak
- if you don't hear language, you won't learn it
Visual Intelligence comes hardwired
- response to light, your mother's face
- this is a more direct route to your brain
The brain adds comprehensible input
- the brain makes input comprehensible
Text is not always this wayFrom the Dept of Neurology in the Harvard School of Medicine
- when you hear audio with seeing a picture, your brain adds information
www.halldavidson.net
- Newscast from the Past
- after losing the 2nd Crusade, the only way to get spices was to go west (Columbus)
Study in California (not causual)
- the more tapes there were in the library, the higher the test scores
- maybe indicates wealthier districts?
Kids at 14 months did better modeling a behavior they saw on TV
Cross the bush/gore vote map with the percentages of adult video rentals
Students are incorporating media in their media festival, make it a curriculum based project, must match learning objectives
- take student media that meets criteria, and broadcast that on TV
- DV cameras is broadcast quality
- kids have so much visual intelligence, they have so many skills
Demo is a CD ROM project caused Desert Creatures
- worked every thursday after lunch
- 5th and 6th graders
- used with chromakey and finalcut pro
Used Empower to create this
Norm Bland the Language Man - Like Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Los Angeles Unified School District
Cllps from high school students who had premise that to understand the 60s counterculture
Remember we are a HANDED SPECIES
- we realized that tasks require ROOM
India TItler - QT movies
Serious question: which best documents rises in student achievement
- computer, cdrom, multimedia, internet, full motion video and sound
ANSWER: full motion video and sound
- it is hard to find groups that have really
- even on the internet when you add video and sound you get better retention
- some schools find better retention on TV courses compared to internet
1 management support
2 teachers background
3 tech plan
4,5 teacher attitude toward tech
6- use of tech at home
7- use of tech in school
need all the above things for successful tech integration
We are a 20 click species
- we have an attention span
- if it takes 21 clicks, kids give up on a search (we're OUT at a certain point)
- this is our culture
Like McDonalds, there are less choices, 9 choices are enjough
What tech is doing to make it easier
- we hired united streamings to put videos on the web for us
- can download video based on a curricular strand
- KOCE
effective use of video means find the right cue, than take 5 or 10 minutes to show it
So what we get is video tends to be abused in classrooms (showing long tapes)
- on their website can search by title and by standard
- then can actually download them
None of the clips Hall showed us today were longer than 2 minutes
A videotape is a 12.9 Gig server
1.5 gig per minute for full motion video
TV is a 5 milion baud modem, compared to computer technology in downloading video
conclusion
cave horse is 30,000 years old, our visual literacies come on board today
- we have ability to do moving
From PBS show, cave horse running
You can make it move
Last trick: what he was in ISD they did studies on reading improvement
- all the people who tested better in reading had hearing impaired people at home
- they did this because you had to, because of captioning
When you are in your classroom and you show videos, TURN ON THE CAPTIONS
- captioning by law it is in every TV Set made since 1984
- there is a chip in the TV,
- push guide menu, then select captioning and press OK, then exit the menu
That is the trick to use videos to increase reading scores