Enhancing Classroom Communication: Tools and Discourse in Instructional Design

1. Using mediated communication tools in the classroom Research on Technology in Teaching

2. CMC Redux • Identifying the tools • Identifying the discourse • Designing for instruction

3. Technical Characteristics • Synchroneity • Persistence • Exchange • Audience

4. Synchroneity It describes the notion of in sync - the more the various people are present to each other asynchronous Simple mail telephone This is also a temporal facet that describes a response on a continuum from synchronous - real time to asynchronous - delayed conversation synchronous

5. Persistence Persistence describes the nature of the message and the ability of an individual’s ability to recall the content of the message. mutable immutable asynchronous Simple mail If the message is mutable it is hard to recall the message word for word. In contrast the more static a message The more immutable the content. telephone conversation synchronous

6. Exchange describes the type of response that is a continuum from active to passive. Exchange mutable immutable asynchronous passive Exchange describes the ability of participants to be able to negotiate meaning. Simple mail telephone conversation active synchronous

7. The audience is for whom the message is intended Audience mutable immutable asynchronous passive Simple mail The audience can be either public or private or somewhere in between. telephone conversation active synchronous private public

8. Taxonomy of Choice mutable immutable asynchronous passive Simple mail telephone conversation active synchronous private public

9. Choice discourse technology functional interpretational instrumental applications

10. Design for Epistemic discourse

11. Instructional Design Epistemic discourse Define Epistemic? Define Discourse

12. Instructional Design Epistemic (Epistemology) What we know And how we know it

13. Instructional Design Epistemic discourse What we know And how we know it

14. Instructional Design Epistemic discourse Reflection Interaction Discourse