#DLDA

Learning2gether23/12/12

HOW IS THE DIGITAL AGEANY DIFFERENT?

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED FOR DIGITAL AGE?

GLOBAL TRENDS (NMC sponsored retreat on

The Future of Education)

• Work is increasingly Global and Collaborative

• People learn anywhere, anytime (BYOD – bring your own device)

• Mobile

• Openness — content, resources, courses, research, attitudes

• The CLOUD

• Ownership (copyright) and privacy

• Access, and Scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success (MOOCS)

• Notion of literacy is being redefined (multi- or transliteracy)

• Rise of Informal Learning

• New Business Models

Employability Skills (VET sector)

• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

Graduate Attributes (Higher Ed)

• Creativity• Communication• Teamwork• Leadership• Collaboration• Information Literate• Initiative• Problem solving

21st Century Skills

http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/

21st Century Skills

• Decentralized decision-making, information sharing, teamwork and innovation are key in today’s enterprises

• Whether a technician or a professional person, success lies in being able to communicate, share, and use information to solve complex problems, in being able to adapt and innovate in response to new demands and changing circumstances, in being able to marshal and expand the power of technology to create new knowledge and expand human capacity and productivity.

Compare:21st C Skills

• Decentralized decision-making• information sharing• teamwork • Innovation• Communicate• use information to solve complex

problems• adapt and innovate in response to new

demands and changing circumstances• marshal and expand the power of

technology • create new knowledge• expand human capacity

Employability Skills (Aust Industry) • Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

Indicate which of the items below you use in your role as an educator

I would contend that the abundance of content and connections is as fundamental shift in education as any we are likely to encounter, and there has, to date, been little attempt to really place this at the centre of a model of teaching. (Martin Weller – referring to A Pedagogy of Abundance)

PEERAGOGY PARAGOGY=

Stems from a philosophy of abundance (Tim Longhurst)- of content and connections

SUBSCRIBING TO PEOPLE

• “People don’t subscribe to magazines anymore. They subscribe to people” (15 yr old)

• Subscribe:– RSS feeds (websites, blogs, podcasts)– Following people (Twitter)– Friending people (Facebook)

FILTERING AND CURATION

• Clay Shirky: "It's not information overload. It's filter failure.”

http://boingboing.net/2010/01/31/clay-shirky-on-infor.html

DIGITAL CURATION

• Curate via feeds, follows, friends, OR

• Scoopit!, then• Bookmark (Delicious,

Diigo)

NETWORKED LEARNING

• Enormously successful model for professional development

• BUT, does it translate to the ‘normal’ teaching context?

• “...there has, to date, been little attempt to really place this at the centre of a model of teaching.” (Weller)

NETWORKED LEARNING

• Assumes everyone in the network takes on role of educator and student

• Everyone curates and shares content• Collaborative– Shared activities– Co-creation/curation of content– Peer review/assessment

NETWORKED LEARNING IS IMPORTANT:

• Fosters an essential component of digital literacy

• it is becoming a lifelong learning skill

Courtesy of Ruth Geer

NETWORKED LEARNING IS HARD!

• Requires advanced Internet skills• You need to manage multiple accounts• You have to work out who to follow!• Involves sharing and being open with and

about what you know (against the culture/values of many)

DOUBTS/SUSPICION

• Information generated and curated from networks is not from recognised authority/experts

• Not officially sanctioned ie it isn’t in a textbook

• It’s INFORMAL

POSITIVE NEGATIVE

• Current• Digital literacy/lifelong

learning• You have a gang

(network) to help you navigate, curate, and create content

• You’re never alone!

• Tendency to want to know everything

• The information flow never stops

• Can be distracting. (Multitasking is inefficient.)

• Information often comes in byte-sized grabs > lack of discourse of any substance

• Everything you do is tracked and monitored (and probably sold to a third party for some commercial advantage.)

So you need to be smart AND disciplined >>>>>

http://rheingold.com/netsmart/

michaelc@chariot.net.au