Tools for Learning - Artifact Five Reflection:
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Artifact Five, marking the halfway point in my studies, is an essay written for Dr. van Oostveen’s EDU 5101G Learning with Technology course. This course was designed around Desjardins’ (2001, 2005) Human-Communication-Human-Interaction Model (HCHI). The model focuses on computer usage, divided into four categories, three of which are derived from the tasks users can perform with a computer (Social Competency, Informational Competency, and Epistemological Competency). These competencies focus on the ability of individuals to complete tasks with technology. While this model does assume that any user of digital technologies must have a basic understanding of hardware and software (Technical Competency), these competencies are learned through experience with the tool, as well as with other users that collaboratively use the tool simultaneously. From this model, we see that digital literacy mostly involves “mastering ideas, not keystrokes” (Bawden, 2001).
Dr. van Oostveen's YouTube video explaining Desjardin's HCMI Interactive Model
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As outlined in the course syllabus, this assignment challenged us to critically analyze a commonly used digital tool (Twitter, WordPress, Prezi, etc.) using the perspectives and theoretical constructs discussed in this course, specifically the HCHI Model (van Oostveen, 2014). As mentioned in Artifact Four, having previous success with the mind-mapping presentation tool, Popplet, I choose this application to understand why the tool has been so successful in my work. Popplet touches on all four strands of the HCHI model. In the technical order, Popplet builds technical skills, and, as with most Web 2.0 applications, offers the end user a way to use computer-mediated communication to invite real-time collaboration with distant users.
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Within this social order, Popplet allows the user to create negotiated, collaborative knowledge with others. In the informational order, Popplet helps the user organize data and data relationships thus assisting with verification, validation, and reliability. Finally, Popplet, in its nature, is an epistemological tool, assisting the user to visually organize and problem solve (Griffiths, 2014). Understanding why we use these tools, as more than a means to an end, that we begin to be digitally literate 21st-century learners.
Artifact Five: Applying the HCHI Model
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