Better Learning through Technology – Malta Workshop

Teaching through Technology

Vanessa Camilleri

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“Education must

begin with the

solution of the

teacher-student

contradiction, by

reconciling the poles

of the contradiction

so that both are

simultaneously

teachers and

students.”

- Paulo Friere

http://arts.anu.edu.au

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How we learn today, is not how we will learn tomorrow.

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Changing Trends in Education

Does education need transformation?

Source: Chambers English Dictionary

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

- Nietzschehttp://thescholasticdiary.wordpress.com

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Young people’s out-

of-school

experiences with

technology can

mean that students

find the presentation

of school curriculum

less challenging,

less relevant and

less engaging.

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• Imagination is more important than

knowledge – Einstein

• We need diversity of thought in the world

to face new challenges – Sir Tim Berners

Lee

What is happening around us?

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What is happening around us?

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Shifting Cultures

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Networked learning

“Understanding how

networks work is one

of the most important

literacies of the 21st

Century.”

- Howard Rheingold

Making Connections

In connectivism, learning involves

creating connections and developing

a network. It is a theory for the digital

age drawing upon chaos, emergent

properties, and

self organised learning.

(It’s not what you know but who you

know)

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Social Networks...

Redefine community,

friendship, identity, presence,

privacy, geography, power

relationships

Enable learning, connections,

collaboration, sharing,

exploration

Networks form around shared

interests, ideas and objects

Adapted from Couros, A. (2010)

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://strategicdc.com

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“We are seeing peer-based learning

networks where students are

learning as much from each other

as they are from their mentors and

tutors.”

– John Seely-Brown

Image source: http://businessinnovationfactory.com

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To conclude…

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As a teacher, use

the technology to

become an

network enabler

that provokes

serendipitous

encounters

leading to

learning.

Instead …

Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2011

Here's to the crazy

ones. The round pegs in

the square holes. The

ones who see things

differently.

And while some see

them as the crazy ones,

we see genius.

Because the people who

are crazy enough to

think they can change

the world, are the ones

who do.

THANK YOU!

Vanessa Camilleri

Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt

Blog: https://seriouslyvirtual.wordpress.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/veecam

LinkedIn: mt.linkedin.com/in/vanessacamilleri

Skype: vcami01