On Wednesday November 2, 2011 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Education Rm. 10) Dr. William Cope will present at the “Transformations: 
Research and Teaching in the Digital Age” seminar series, sponsored by the University of Illinois Department of Educational Psychology, & Ubiquitous Learning Institute. Dr. Cope’s presentation is titled “Integrating Assessment Into Learning: The “Scholar” Environment in Principle and Practice.” In Dr. Cope’s words:
We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, even though much of the time we do not. The things I am going to highlight are by no means written into new media technologies. In fact, these are all things that, with effort, we could have done with printed texts and in traditional classrooms, and sometimes did. The change of greatest significance is the economy of effort. The presentation will explore the practicalities of integrating assessment into learning in several projects I am working on for the US Department of Education. For these projects, we have been building an online writing, learning and assessment environment, and trialing it in schools. I will show this. I will also discuss a theory of new learning and new literacies, focusing on some of the affordances of the digital media: collaboration, differentiation, metacognition, ubiquity, multimodality, agency and evaluation.
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