Allison Rossett

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

The first problem that occurred to me was I had no clue what the words were let alone their definitions. They took a picture of the words and definitions with their cellphone cameras and posted it on my Facebook wall. Now I had the exact word with the exact definition.

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

The first problem that occurred to me was I had no clue what the words were let alone their definitions. They took a picture of the words and definitions with their cellphone cameras and posted it on my Facebook wall. Now I had the exact word with the exact definition.

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Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New

Allison Rossett

If you ask 100 instructional designers for a definition of ID, you won’t get one. Walter Dick, long time Florida State professor, now retired, provided this definition: instructional design is applied educational psychology. Something old AND something new. You’ll get many. That was true when I wrote it a decade ago.

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Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New

Allison Rossett

If you ask 100 instructional designers for a definition of ID, you won’t get one. Walter Dick, long time Florida State professor, now retired, provided this definition: instructional design is applied educational psychology. Something old AND something new. You’ll get many. That was true when I wrote it a decade ago.

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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

The part of the paper that resonated with me was the definition of the two contrasting approaches – a standard “tool view” approach vs. a sociotechnical approach. He provided a basic framework for planning and executing less painful technological change. Note, he didn’t promise no pain at all, just less of it.

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Introducing New Technology: From Promise to Reality

Allison Rossett

The part of the paper that resonated with me was the definition of the two contrasting approaches – a standard “tool view” approach vs. a sociotechnical approach. He provided a basic framework for planning and executing less painful technological change. Note, he didn’t promise no pain at all, just less of it.