new technologies and the future of learning
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An invited presentation for the Learning Skills Group Conference, Olympia, London, on 14 June, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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New Technologies and the Future of Learning: Learning is open, social, personal, mobile...
Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth
Learning Skills Group Conference, Olympia, London: June 14, 2011
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Takeaways...
• New and emerging learning technologies
• Innovative learning• Location independent learning• Alternative modes of
assessment and feedback • New roles and responsibilities St
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http://thebitchywaiter.blogspot.com/
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
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“Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.”
- Mary Somerville, Pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
http://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk
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New and emerging technologies...
http://www.weirdthings.org.uk
...are often met with opposition.
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http://www.objectlessons.org
“Students today can’t prepare bark to
calculate their problems. They depend on slate which is more
expensive. What will they do when they
drop the slate and it breaks? They will be
unable to write!”(Anon – 1709)
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“Students today depend on paper too
much. They don’t know how to write
without getting chalk dust all over
them. What will they do when they run
out of paper?”(Anon – 1815)
http://www.nikkikatz.com
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A Personal History…
Steve Wheeler c 1965
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My first experience of technology was at the Evoluon in Holland in 1970 when I saw one of the first video conference systems.
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http://www.spacetoday.org
http://www.gamersmint.com
http://www.techdigest.tv
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Revolution!• Are we witnessing a digital
revolution?• Or is it a digital evolution?• Will learners need new skills to
use new technology?• Can they simply adapt and
apply old skills to new contexts?
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The pace of change is
acceleratingHow will we
keep up with it?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/42232541@N04/4267059618/
The future of learning is Open
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons
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“The concept of the ‘gift economy’ is where the whole culture works on a framework of mutual giving.”
– Mark Zuckerberg
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“Scientists build on the work of other scientists
without asking or paying for the
privilege.”
- Lawrence Lessig
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“Given the crises in economics and the environment, and the many challenges we face in modern society, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form”. – Brian Lamb
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http://www.frikipix.com
Homeless and wireless
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6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education
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Characteristics of e-learning
Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education
We have the technology to facilitate the rest, but do we have the will?!
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The future of learning is Social
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http://photozou.jp/photo/show/1274031/63055983
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Connection
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Online, En massehttp://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
Communication
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Collaboration and Creation
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‘The wisdom of crowds’
Common interests and purpose
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Social media use 2011
>640 Million
>175 Million95 million tweets/day
>100 Million
>125 Million
>17 million articles >5 Billion images3000 images/minute
2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute
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Source: http://www.browsermedia.co.uk
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The future of learning is Personal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg
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Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are
acknowledged
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“Blogging ... Is the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that
we have.”
- Lawrence Lessig
http://news.oreilly.com
“Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few...”
- Katie Hafner
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Blogging
http://www.volusion.com/
In the act of writing... ...we are written.
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We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com
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Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
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Personal technologies
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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg
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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1259/595625303_d054b5f8a5.jpg
Listening culture
Audio feedback for learning
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The future of learning is augmented
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Augmented Reality (AR) is when technology recognises what you are doing and then enhances it.AR apps add information to the world around us.
Source: www.geeks.co.uk
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1: The phone app2: The ‘wearable’
images.businessweek.com
Augmented Reality
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Marker technology (‘Magic Symbol’)
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The future of learning will merge virtual and real
worlds.
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http://www.wunschfeld.net
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The future of learning is visual
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raylopez/867883420/
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http://techncruch.com
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http://techncruch.com
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Infographics
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http://www.elrst.com/wp-content/
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The future of learning is mobile
http://learningputty.com
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Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/
Intuitive handheld devices
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Natural gesture interface
Connection to my learning network
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Smartphone GPS Webquest and FoursquareGeocaching
http://www.gsa.europa.eu
Taking the classroom back out
into the world
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What will bethe new trainer/ teacher roles?
http://www.riotraining.co.uk/
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Content isn’t King. It’s a Tyrant...
• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I file content?• How do I categorise content?
scavenging.files.wordpress.com
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http://www.riotraining.co.uk/
What new skills will learners need in the digital age?
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Digital wisdom
e-safety
What do learners need?
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Learners need ‘digital literacies’
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Digital literacies
• Social networking• Transliteracy• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing/repurposing content• Filtering and selecting• Self presenting
http://www.mopocket.com/
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Learning to learn
Critical thinking
Collaboration
Creativity
Reflection
Evaluation
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“...digital literacy is all about making the technology work for you, finding new and interesting ways in which information technology can enhance life and improve the quality of teaching and learning.”
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“The digitally literate teacher will be convinced of the efficacy and usefulness of the connected computer.”
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"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker
http://pixdaus.com
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