growing up digital workshop

NZCETA conference, Christchurch, 19 July, 2013

Growing up Digital

THE DIGITAL LEARNER

•  2001 – iPod released •  2002 – NCEA introduced •  2010 – iPad released •  2012 – NCEA level 1

(includes programming)

•  1989 – Concept floated for WWW

•  1989 – Tomorrow’s Schools •  1993 - First browser

released •  1995 – WWW comes to NZ

BORN 1997

1990s The computer room

BBC

1980s: the standalone schoolcomputer

A National Education Network?

The school network 1995-2010

4 DECADES OF ICT IN NZ SCHOOLS

Adapted from Becta 2004

Stand alone

computer

WWW - consume

Social networks

Intelligent web

UBIQUITY

MOBILE TRENDS

•  mLearning – in the classroom and workplace

•  BYOD – Bring your own device

•  “snack” learning •  Location-based

integration and workplace training

•  Cloud computing •  Rewind learning

http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/6-mobile-learning-trends-that-grew-in-2012/

CHALLENGE

Have we grasped how significantly student access to technology has changed their expectations as learners?

AGENCY

•  “The power to act” •  “Sense of ownership” •  “Executing and controlling

one’s own actions” •  “Self-efficacy” •  “Personalisation”

WE LIVE IN A PERSONALISED WORLD

•  My watchlist (on Trademe) •  My personal banking •  My travel planner •  MySky •  My portfolio •  My Youtube channels •  My… •  AGENCY is key!

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS

Washor, E and Mohkowski, C (2013) Leaving to learn

Do my teachers really know about me and my interests and talents?

Do I find what the school is teaching relevant to my interests?

Do I have opportunities to apply what I am learning in real world settings and contexts?

Do I feel appropriately challenged in my learning?

Can I pursue my learning out of the standard sequence?

Do I have sufficient time to learn at my own pace?

Do I have real choice about what, where and how I learn?

Do I have opportunities to explore and make mistakes?

Do I have opportunities to engage deeply in my learning and to practice the skills I need to lean?

•  Thinks differently •  Easily bored •  Risk taker – risk averse •  Good at sales •  Future focused •  Task focused •  …

CHALLENGES

•  Do our learners have to adapt to our way of doing things, or do we adapt to theirs?

•  Are we focused on delivery – or learning experience?

•  Open •  Distributed •  Scalable •  Social

generative •  Networked •  Self-organised •  Adaptive •  Global

An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of information in an era of knowledge is doomed to fail. Information today is…

George Siemens: Connectivism – a theory of learning for the networked age http://www.connectivism.ca/

School A

Groups

NETWORKED LEARNING

Network PLN

Federally organised Collections of entities Collaborative Networked knowledge

Externally organised Single entity Competitive Knowledge transfer

Personally organised Association of entities Connected Personal knowledge

The way networks learn is the way individuals learn

NETWORKS

•  redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.

•  enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.

•  networks form around shared interests & objects

CHALLENGES

•  What theories of learning underpin our current models of teaching and learning? Are these still relevant in the digital age?

•  How might we need to adapt as teachers and organisations to work effectively as nodes on a network?

Now let’s focus on the learning – isn’t that what should drive our

decision making?

WHAT LEARNING ACTIVITY OCCURS?

Collaborative wiki writing

Paint a picture

Write an essay

Skype an ‘expert’

Assessment interview

Make a chart Perform a

play

Silent reading Watching a video

Research on the web

Feedback on blog

Maintain a portfolio

Maintain a blog

Make a movie

Writing a play

Group discussion

Listening to the teacher

Video conf.

Gather data Make a speech

WHAT LEARNING ACTIVITY OCCURS?

Collaborative wiki writing

Paint a picture

Write an essay

Skype an ‘expert’

Assessment interview

Make a chart

Perform a play

Silent reading

Watching a video

Research on the web

Feedback on blog

Maintain a portfolio

Maintain a blog

Make a movie

Writing a play

Group discussion

Listening to the teacher

Video conf.

Gather data

Make a speech

Engaging with existing

knowledge

Creating new knowledge

Celebrating and sharing ideas

and knowledge

Understanding “how am I doing?”

Drawing the threads together

BIG QUESTIONS

•  What is your school’s framework for pedagogical decision making?

•  Is it grounded in a shared view of 21st century pedagogy?

•  Is it transparent to all stakeholders?

•  Is it used as a reference for all decision making?

Check – “how am I going?”

Learn access and engage

with existing knowledge

Create Activities that results

in the development of new knowledge

Share Communicating and sharing knowledge

with others

Lear

ning

and

Tea

chin

g

Ubiquity learning anywhere,

anytime, any pace, any deice. Home-school- community. Life-long

and life-wide

Agency The power to act.

Learner choice and control. Personalised,

adaptive, differentiated

Connectedness Collaborative. Social

knowledge construction in communities. Connectivism.

Serv

ices

Etc.

Infr

astr

uctu

re

Streaming media

Online sharing

sites

Content hosting

ePortfolios

Mobile devices

Content hosting SMS/LMS

Cloud services

Wikis-blogs

Etc.

3G or 4G access

No data caps

ISP

International links

Wireless access

UFB to home

Fibre to server filtering

Wikis-blogs

Serv

ices

Etc.

Infr

astr

uctu

re

Streaming media

Online sharing

sites

Content hosting

ePortfolios

Mobile devices

Content hosting SMS/LMS

Cloud services

Wikis-blogs

Etc.

3G or 4G access

No data caps

ISP

International links

Wireless access

UFB to home

Fibre to server filtering

Etc.

Derek Wenmoth Email: [email protected]

Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek Skype: <dwenmoth>