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HOW WEB TECHNOLOGY IS REVOLUTIONISING
EDUCATION (Curtis Bonk)
The Sage is Still on the Stage!
Personal Learning Network (PLN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0(Stephen Downes)
Elearning 1.0:• static packaged content • little true interactivity and learner input and • very little contact with a teacher/facilitator• represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT,
Blackboard, etc)
Elearning 2.0:• more student-centred• centred around a Personal Learning Environment using social software. • students generate and share content. • they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in
the world they can learn from.
(this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald)
“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)
Original photo by Hummanna.
PARTICIPATORY MEDIA/CULTURESOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKINGSOCIAL SOFTWARE
YouTubeFlickrMySpaceFacebookNing, etc
WHAT HAS CHANGED?(the locus of control is shifting)
• Decline of the Gatekeepers
• Publish then evaluate
• Content Creators; Content Rankers
• Everyone has access to everything
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
• “People just don’t subscribe to magazines anymore; they also subscribe to people.”
Agency has shifted from teacher to learner; from teaching to learning
Networked Learning
CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
(George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada)Principles of Connectivism:
• Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
• Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
• Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY
A GLOBAL AUDIENCE
• 9000 hrs of extra content each day (approx 20 hrs/minute)
• In 6 months generates as much content as major broadcasters in US did in 60 years
• Superb video from Michael Wesch: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
Rewriting or Killing our Cultures?
THE CROWD:
Collective wisdom?
Stupidity of the masses?
Is our culture beingre-written?
Is the Internet killing ourCulture? (Andrew Keen:the cult of the amateur)
MySpace/FacebookSeptember 2nd, 2008
• POLICE are trawling social networking sites and tracking text messages to find the organisers of a wild party shut down by the riot squad in Sydney.
• About 1500 people crammed into a Camperdown warehouse in Sydney's inner west for the party which was publicised through Facebook and other online forums.
(http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24273455-5014108,00.html)
September 2nd, 2008
• A wild teenage party promoted on MySpace has been condemned by Geelong police who were pelted with glass bottles when they tried to close it down.
(http://www.theage.com.au/national/myspace-party-teens-pelt police-with-bottles-20080902-47hg.html)
fear
Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com
NY Times, Oct 30th, 2007
Are we sociologically ready?
What are our ethical responsibilities as adults/educators:
• to our children/students?• to ourselves? (teacher sacked for
posting photo on MySpace)
Open Content
Creative Commons Licensing
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/
• TIME: end user innovation (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html)
• 'mid-career professionals‘ are predominant users
• Exemplifies power of networks (PLNs)
• Is revolutionising the way we communicate
• Powerful real time search tool
GENERATIONS
GENERATIONS
• Now possible to delineate characteristics of 4 different generations – Veterans, Boomers, X, and Y
• Danger of stereotyping
Digital Natives (Marc Prensky)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30864080@N00/347520047
Not all Digital Natives are Generation Y
http://flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/1460848008/
Digital Natives are:• Communicating (Instant Messaging, SMS)• Sharing and collaborating (blogs, wikis, MySpace, Facebook)• Buying and selling (eBay)• Exchanging (peer to peer technology; phone to phone file transfer)• Meeting (3D worlds)• Reporting and documenting (camera phones)• Evaluating (comments on blogs, photo and video sites)• Searching (Google)
They are CONTENT PRODUCERS and CONTENT RANKERSMany have an online presence. And…they don’t use email!
Generation Y
• Highly reliant on technology
• Have been doing almost all written work on keyboards since primary school
• Facebook is a must if you want to be in the social loop (and even if you don’t have your own FB account parts of your life are documented by others)
• Most are unconcerned about issues of privacy and their digital footprint
• They don’t use Twitter (seen as something only used by those who are too involved with the Internet), but do use FB status updates!
• Electronic/video/multi-user games
Gen Y are tech savvy but many Boomers are much better at using the Net productively.
DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS
ISSUE:
are teaching
DIGITAL NATIVES
BOOMERS
are teaching
GEN Y
Whither the Learning Management System (LMS)?
• WebCT has gone; Bb decreasing market share
• Moodle is the rising star – why?
• Open Source
Proprietary v Open SourceProprietary
• Expensive
• Sophisticated appearance by default
• Locked in to fixed product for extended periods
Open Source
• Free or very cheap
• Host can modify product as often as desired
• Philosophy of collaboration and sharing
• May not look as sophisticated but level of functionality matches proprietary products
• Microsoft working on integration with Moodle (that's all you need to know!) http://www.educationlabs.com/projects/moodleproduct/Pages/default.aspx
• New version 2 will allow embedded media in discussion forums (cf Google Wave)
• Should be available mid 2010
ePortfolios
• Personal Learning Plan
(schools)
• Integration of Moodle and Mahara (OS)
• Mahara (or other eportfolio tool) should be optional
• Too much time and effort spent on interoperability and standards
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
• Virtual Worlds/Immersive Environments • Cloud-Based Applications
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
• Geolocation • Alternative Input Devices
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
• Deep Tagging • Next-Generation Mobile
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
• Virtual Worlds/ ImmersiveEnvironments
• Cloud-Based Applications
Second Life
See Second Life in Education
Google Docs
Google Apps
Zoho Office
Flickr
YouTube
Blogger
etc
Microsoft Live (Skydrive)
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
• Geolocation • Alternative Input Devices
GEOTAGGING
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
• Deep Tagging • Next-Generation Mobile
IMPACT FOR EDUCATORS?
Image courtesy of law_keven
Learning in the 21st Century
• “ I have seen predictions that a student doing a 3 year course by 2012 will experience the situation where most of the knowledge they have gained in year one will be completely out of date by the time they finish year 3.”
• “…the only sustainable approach…will be to find the learning and teaching strategies which will ensure that people embrace attitudes and behaviours anchored in lifelong learning.”
• “It is becoming …an imperative for industry to have staff who are lifelong learners and highly ICT literate.”
Greg Black, CEO, education.au (Campus Review 16/10/07)
TENSION
SOCIAL
SOFTWARE/PLN
ORGANISATIONAL DEMANDS (AQTF, AUDITING, ASSESSMENT, DUTY OF CARE, COPYRIGHT, etc)
V
ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING V
NETWORKED LEARNING
Teacher centred
Control
Top down
Hierarchical
External imposed authority
Right answers pre-determined
Only one end point
?
Student centred
Student choice
Bottom up
Distributive (flat)
Knowledge sharing among peers
Decisions made collectively
Multiple destinations
Engaging!
mutually exclusive?
“The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler)
Image courtesy of Nancy White
Courtesy of Greg Whitby
Extent of Change?
• It is not all or nothing; it is gradual and context dependent
• Not all activity will be on the right hand side
• Personal values may dictate the rate at which you adopt changed approaches (if at all!)
Awareness or a Set of Skills?
• New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…
Employability Skills
• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology
Where to Begin? (You)
• Join an online community or email list• Ask questions and initiate discussions about your interests and needs• Start publishing or tracking blogs, podcasts• Create a Twitter account (or Yammer for a walled garden equivalent)• Do an online course in multiliteracy; 23 things• Create social bookmarking and photosharing accounts• Create media – start simple:
– Upload photos to Flickr; comment on others’ photos– create Digital Stories (Photostory, Moviemaker) and upload to YouTube
• Search YouTube and other video repositories for educational content• Create a Ning or Facebook account for friends or family• Use a wiki or Google Docs to collaborate on a small project • Place yourself in the new habitus of learning – you need to do it to
understand and internalise the power of networks; reading and observing will not achieve this philosophical seachange
Education by and large has not changed. Syllabus/curriculum is still rooted in a past paradigm of fixed knowledge. The world beyond classrooms has changed a great deal, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing rate……
Photo courtesy of Sawrah, http://flickr.com/photos/sawrah/314474272/
Libraries v Classrooms?
• Check the 5 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999ZEf2EpHg
Michael Coghlanmichaelc@chariot.net.au
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