On the Language of Internet Memes

http://editlib.org/p/11137/

This paper presents an expansion of the Will, Skill, Tool model of technology integration originally developed in 2000 (Knezek, Christensen, Hancock, and Shoho, 2000). This model posits that educator desire to use technology (will), training in use of technology (skill), and access to information processing hardware, software and support structures (tool), are all necessary for full integration of technology into the classroom environment . The expanded Will, Skill, Tool Model is designed to provide a workable framework for examining the interplay of multiple variables in operant, phenomenological, social cognitive, volitional, and socio-cultural aspects of the student, teacher, and technology relationship.

Initiatives like One Laptop per Child have had a huge impact in shaping my beliefs and teaching philosophy about the integration of technology into the learning experience. Especially how such integration must take special care to not turn students into a handful of consumers for specific proprietary software, but must instead function as a launching pad for students to learn not only about the plethora of digital tools out there, but must also try to shift he paradigm of students as consumers of a specific brand and try to make them producers of their own. On the other hand,the branding alone of projects like Google African University Programs makes me cringe a bit, even if the ultimate goal is quite similar.

From 1962 to 1967 researchers selected students with low-income and low-I.Q. parents at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and divided them into two groups. One group received a special high-quality education, while the control group used the school’s normal curriculum.

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The open development of a School of the Open in many ways requires those who hope to collaborate to follow through a systematic, scaffolded process akin to Blooms revised taxonomy that culminates with the creation of new courses regarding the open. It is within this notion of the open that I plan to develop research regarding the potential for the language of internet memes to be exploited as learning objects and open educational resources.