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EXIT

THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

Now….Ask yourself…

• How do you teach?

• How do you use?

• What tools do you use?

• How tools can you use?

• Do you encourage them to innovate and create?

THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

The future of education

• Information is changing.

• WHERE and HOW we learn is changing.

• If we don’t integrate the tools effectively…

Formal education will become increasingly

irrelevant

INTRODUCATION TO SOCIAL MEDIA

• Technology web 2.0 (Social media) has the power

to transform teaching and learning.

• You have the power to give them the skills and tools

to work in the 21st century.

• Teach them how to find, make sense of, and use

relevant information.

• Give them the ability to find and use information

with critical discrimination in order to build

knowledge.

• Learn together, network together, grow together.

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA

What are they?

Potential Uses for Teaching

???

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• Defined as the “ Read-Write” Web

Provides all the services and applications to

allow individuals to co-create content,

collaborate and share it with other

• Support user-generated content

Content created by users rather than specialist

authors or publishing using a variety of affordable

technologies like blogs, podcasts and wikis

• Encourages the social aspect of the web

Through the use of social media like blogs, wikis,

social bookmarking tools and social networks.

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• What do these social technologies look like

• Social networking – establishing and building online

relationship with others, and a fundamental social

activity

• File-sharing – creating, storing and/or sharing files in

all formats: pictures, videos, presentations,

documents, screencasts, etc

• Social bookmarking – storing and sharing links to

web resources

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• Communication tools – communicating in real time

via instant messaging and chat, in web meetings,

and in live broadcasts, or asynchronously via email

• Collaboration tools – working synchronously or

asynchronously with other to co-create documents,

presentations, mind maps, etc.

• Blogging – reading, commenting or writing blog

posts

• Micro-blogging – sending, receiving and replaying

to short messages with others – for real-time

communications

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• Podcasting – creating or listening to audio (MP3)

files

• RSS – Really Simple Syndication- subscribing to and

reading blog and web news feeds

• Social and collaboration platforms – providing

enterprise-wide, integrated suites of social media

tools in one platform

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• What impact are social (Web 2.0) technologies

having on working and learning?

Web 1.0

Web Technologies

Web 2.0

Social Technologies

Publishing

content/courses

reading content

some interaction with

content

Sharing information and

knowledge

Collaborative working and

learning

social learning

CONTENT PEOPLE

WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES

• HOW CAN SOCIAL MEDIA (sOmE) BE USED FOR

LEARNING AND WORKING?

Social Media for Working & Learning aka Social Learning Use of SoMe

for: communicating – sharing – networks and communicaties

Formal

learning/training/

education

Informal Learning

Learning as you

work or play

Working

Improving

performance

• Use SoMe to

engage online

learners

• To engage

learners in the

classroom

• Use SoMe to

find things out

by/for oneself

• To learn with

and from other

• Use SoMe to

rethink/improve

work processes

• To work

collaboratively

with other

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY WEB 2.0

WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE

• Please browse Top 100 Tools for Learning:

• http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

• Then write the number (name) of tools in that list that

you are presently familiar with.

http;//www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

• A collection of bookmark (favourite)

• Access your bookmark links from anywhere

• Share with friends, coworkers and the community

• Discover new things

Examples

• Delicious, digg, connotea, citeulike

Application

• Lecturers and students can build a course library of

relevant course links based on shared bookmarks

using a course tag.

Delicious.com

digg.com

SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Used for self-expression, personalization and the

building of communicaties

Example

• Facebook, ning, elgg

Application

• Lecturers can set up a class “social network” or

learning community for students to meet and

communicate with anouther – before, during and

after the course

• Students can have group discussions and group

chat

Facebook.com

ning.com

elgg.com

schoology.com

mahara.org

MEDIA SHARING

• Sharing of slides, videos, pictures, audio…

• True user generated contents

• Some available for downlord

Example

• Slideshare, scribd, youtube, teachertube, flickR

Application

• Educators and students can share their own as well as other user-generated podcasts, presentations, screencast, videos, etc and embed them in blogs, websites, etc and comment on each other resources.

slideshare.net

youtube.com

teachertube.com

WIKI

• A “wiki” is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access toit.

• “Wiki-wiki” is the Hawaiian for “quick”.

Example

• Wikispaces, pbwiki, wikiversity

Applications

• A group of students can collaboratively create documents related to class projects

• Lecturers can use wikis to collaborate on projects, wheather editing a textbook, preparing a jurnalarticle, or assembling a syllabus or reading list.

wikispaces.com

pbworks.com

Wikiversity.org

BLOG

• “…a web-based publication consisting primarily of

periodic articles, most often in reverse chronogical

order.

Examples

• Blogspot, wordpress, edublogs

Application

• Educators can write course blogs to host an entire

course, to provide a chronogical focus for assignments,

a site for students interaction and discussion, where

students can contribute thought and experiences

• Students can write blog to reflect on their learning or to

post e-portfolios to comment on the other student blogs.

blogger.com

wordpress.com

OTHER WEB 2.0 TOOLS

• Prezi (Presentation)

http://www.prezi.com

• Glogster (Interactive Poster)

http://www.glogster.com

• voiceThread (Collaborative slideshows)

http://www.voicethread.com

• Jing (Screen capture? Casting tool)

http://www.jingproject.com

• Google Docs, Zoho (Online Productivity)

http://docs.google.com

http://www.zoho.com

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

ISSUES & CHALLENGES

AN EDUCATION PARADIGM SHIFT

EXPERT

LEARNER

LEARNER

LEARNER

Conventional Learning

AN EDUCATION PARADIGM SHIFT

Modern Learning (digital)

INFORMATION -BOOK/NETS

EXPERTS

LEARNER

RUMORS/UNRELIABLE INFO

AN EDUCATION PARADIGM SHIFTISSUES

?

Learning is an

active process

not an event

Teach to be

independence

Active thinking

and speaking

No longer

content expert,

but rather the

learning expert.

Teach tools

NOT content.

Active listening

1 2

WHAT ABOUT THE LEARNER ??

“Blended Solution”

Classroom

E-learning

WHAT ABOUT THE LEARNER

INTRODUCTION• TEACHING IS CHANGING…

– ARE WE READY…??

Teaching With Technology

Thank you.