Friday, July 19, 2013

Roy Pea (guest post by Tami Chappel)

About:

1978 Doctor of Philosophy University of Oxford, England
Developmental Psychology (Advisor: Jerome S. Bruner)

1974 Bachelor of Arts Michigan State University
Highest Honors
Philosophy, Psychology
Minor in Linguistics

After studying child language and cognitive development from 1975–1980, his research concerns were attracted to understanding how innovations in computing and communications technologies can significantly influence learning, thinking, collaboration, and educational systems.
Roy is a key figure in the development of the Learning Sciences as a recognized field of research and graduate study. He founded and served as the first director of the first Learning Sciences doctoral program, at Northwestern University (1991), directing the NSF-funded field-building Center for Innovative Learning Technologies, and launching in 2002 the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at Stanford University. In 2004-2005, Roy was President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences.
Roy was one of the first research scientists to build the Bank Street College Center for Children in Technology (1981–1986), the first social sciences center devoted to studying children's learning with technology. Later, recruited by John Seely Brown and Jim Greeno to contribute to the development of the intellectual agenda of the Palo Alto CA based think-tank, The Institute for Research on Learning (1988–1991), he developed their K-12 learning technologies emphasis, with pioneering work on distributed intelligence, learning by multimedia authoring, and science learning with dynamic diagramming tools.


From: 

Wikipedia

Stanford University



 Article and Video Link(s):

1.  Google Scholars Articles Page Link:

2.  Beyond participation to co-creation of meaning: mobile social media in generative learning communities. Social Science Information, Vol. 49(3): 1–19.


Article Description: 
This article considers the interactive structures and frameworks that underlie much of ‘Web 2.0’ participatory media, and proposes that theories of social learning and action could greatly inform the design of participatory media applications to support learning. (from abstract)

3.  How to improve collaborative learning with video tools in the classroom? Social vs. cognitive guidance for student teams. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. vol. 7, issue 2.



Article Description:
[The authors] present empirical evidence for the positive effects of instructive guidance on performance and on learning of students who use web-based video tools during a short collaborative-design task in their history lesson (from abstract)

4.  Comparing simple and advanced video tools as supports for collaborative design processes. J. Learning Sciences, 19, 1-38.


Article Description:  The idea that digital video technologies can offer opportunities for meaningful learning through design is a given in the article.  However, the authors conducted an experiment in an effort to determine if the addition of too much complexity in video tools would not advance learning.

5.  Collaboration with mobile media -- Shifting from 'participation' to 'co-creation'.  Proceedings of the Sixth International IEEE Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE), pp. 112-116.


Article Description:  It’s noted that today’s use of social media is to follow and share the doings of people and that this could be expanded to a much more richly interactive experience.  The authors describe a mobile media application that is under development and that supports collaboration in distributed learning communities.


Other Notable Web Activity:

Pea’s Academia.com page:  http://stanford.academia.edu/RoyPea


Pea’s Twitter address:  https://twitter.com/rdp_life

Pea’s email address:  roypea@stanford.edu



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