Sawhill Keynote notes from Gus:

Barbara Sawhill, Oberlin College
"From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Sharing: Language Learning Technologies In A Brave New World"
Plan for presentation is to move from teacher-centric to student-centric. move to conversation and hold dialog for 15 minutes.
No 1-flavor to resolving this tension of supporting and integrating technology into the language classroom. Many ways this professional role is described--see iallt.org statement of professional responsibilities http://iallt.org/iallt_documents/IALLTProfessional.pdf to continue the exploration of the roles we play.
How are we seen from the outside? Silos? See AACU report on the mystery of what is not known about what we do. Better known from the outside than on our own campus.
Why do this work? See CNN video clip.
How to change what we teach: See Swaffar " Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/1252359/janet-swaffar/remapping-the-foreign-language-curriculum-an-approach-through-multiple-literacies-teaching-languages-literatures-and-cultures
Are we creating mini-me's? creating more PhDs and creating more silos? Or are we contributing to the wholeism of human studies?
BS: Embracing the system about to break is a system ready for change!
"Teaching languages is not dialogic, it's polylogic."
Who is in charge in this environment? BS shows slide with multiple connections and paths from student to student and even to teacher...
Where does control come in? How do we separate student needs and wants from passions and goals? How to take the course in a direction that meets them both.
Teaching is not like playing baseball... it's more like playing frisbee! Keep the frisbee aloft, passing it from one to another--participating and flowing, not starting and stopping, counting runs and errors.
Step 2: find technology to emphasize social nature of learning. Noisy, collaborative, chaotic, etc.
So are ed-tech systems a contradiction in terms? They help maintain control, form barriers to collaboration, manage learning, and allow people to organize...
Technology is a medium, not a means.
Good technology never fixes bad teaching, but actually exacerbates it. Technology is not = pedagogy.
Fear 2.0 video. (Bryn Mawr production) http://geekymom.blogspot.com/2008/01/fear-20-video.html
End of Part 1.