Dr Ashley is my reporting officer (RO) at the NIE https://sites.psu.edu/edtec467/wp-content/uploads/sites/3397/2013/06/Podcast-Interview-Dr-Ashley-Final.mp3
The 3 main courses that Dr Ashley facilitated are, ICT for pre-service teachers, Edpsy2, and Managing Change with ICT for in-service teachers who are slated to be heads of ICT in schools (using the framework PALS: Planning-Articulating-Leading-Sustaining). Note: This is the class site (https://sites.google.com/site/edpsych2/) he mentioned in the interview on the question of what changes he made as a result of using Web 2.0 tools
Dr Ashley also offers courses outside the NIE, on social media based learning, video game based learning as well as change management in ICT.
P/S Parts of the podcast (above and pauses) were deleted to reduce the size of the file. Apologies for the large file but I spent over 5 hours downloading converter (m4a to mp3) to open up the audio file in Audacity for editing (had to watch on YouTube ref how to edit….)
I was very intrigued by his reference to Alan Kay when he talked about how the tools shape us via our interactions with them. Kay was (and is) most definitely one of the most visionary and original thinkers when it comes to technology and its applications. To be sure, this point about how the tools shape us is a very good one to emphasize. Tools are not innocuous things and metacognitive awareness can help both teachers and learners think about how their perceptions of ideas, concepts, etc are influenced by the tools they use to express their understandings of these things that they encounter.