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

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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“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

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

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

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/4259162368_0f9b2f0a32.jpg

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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

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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Connection

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http://i.imwx.com

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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

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

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/

http://techncruch.com

http://techncruch.com

Infographics

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The future of learning is mobile

http://learningputty.com

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/

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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What new skills will learners need in the digital age?

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Digital wisdom

e-safety

What do learners need?

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.”

"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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Thank you

W: http://steve-wheeler.netE: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

http://steve-wheeler.net