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Connectivity, Mobility and Personalisation: Understanding the Next Generation of Learners

Informa The Future of Learning

Park Royal, Darling Harbour, Sydney February 24-25, 2015

Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director

Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN

Overviewn Next-generation learners !

n Personalising and customising learning experiences

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n User-generated content as a form of expression and a means of social learning

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n The expectation of seamless, mobile learning opportunities.

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Next-Generation Learners

Dynamic Landscape

Horizon Report

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Interactive learning (learner-to-content)

Networked learning (learner-to-learner; learner-to-teacher)

Student-generated content (learner-as-designers).

Connected students (knowledge is in the network)

Learning-oriented assessment (assessment-as-learning)

Interactions

Personalising and Customising Learning

Experiences

CharacteristicsnDigital citizenship nSeamless learning nLearner engagement/

self-regulated learning nLearning-oriented

assessment nLifelong and life-wide

learning nDesire paths

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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

Europe - Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2012n73% of EU households had access to the

internet nA lack of skills is the second most important

reason for not having access to the internet nOnly 53% of the labour force - confident that

they had sufficient digital skills to change jobs. nAge, gender, and education remain the key

challenges. nhttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-

agenda/files/scoreboard_digital_skills.pdf !!!

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Wheeler Digital Literacies

n Social networking skills n Transliteracy skills n Maintaining Privacy n Managing Identity n Creating content n Organising and sharing content n Reusing/repurposing content n Filtering and selecting content n Self broadcasting

!!http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html

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Cognitive

TechnicalSocial-

Emotional

Information literacy Critical literacy Multi-literacies

Socio-emotional literacy

Critical literacy

Operational literacy

Critical literacy

Digital literacy

NG (2012)

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers & Education 59 (2012) 1065–1078

Digital Literacies

nLiteracy is no longer “the ability to read and write” but now “the ability to understand information however presented.”

nCan't assume students have skills to interact in a digital age (JISC, 2012)

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ADFI Major Projectsn Digital Futures - Collaborative Research Network

n Regional Universities Network (RUN) Maths and Science Digital Classroom: A Connected Model for all of Australia

n Aged Care Community, Education, Research & training (ACCERT)

n Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA)

n Making the Connection: Improving access to Higher Education for Low SES Students with ICT Limitations project

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Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

What is Digital Identity?

nSafe and engaged digital citizenship

nAppropriate and responsible technology use

nDigital wellness

nhttp://digitalcitizenship.net/Home_Page.html

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What is Digital Identity?nHow you portray,

represent yourself online

nRich ways of communication

nDigital etiquette

nDigital ethics

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Digital Identity Spaces

Digital Footprints/Tattoo

I can see a day in the not too distant future (if it’s not already here) where your “digital footprint” will carry far more weight than anything you might include in a resume or CV (Betcher, 2009)

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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/digitalfootprint/

Lifelong & Life-wide Learningn Encompasses both formal

and informal learning, self-motivated learning..(Watson, 2003).

n Life-wide learning “recognises that an individual’s life contains many parallel and interconnected journeys and experiences...”

n (Jackson, 2010, p. 492).

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E-portfoliosn Space for personal learning

n Populated by the learner

n Supports learning not assessment

n For life-long and life–wide learning

n Able to present multiple stories of learning

n Access is controlled by the learner

n http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/about.asp

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Seamless Learning

Seamless Learning

Continuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings (Sharples, et al, 2012).

Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

Outdoor Professional Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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Virtual Learning Spaces

Learning-oriented Assessment

Learning-oriented Assessment

Assessment tasks as learning

tasks

Student involvement in

assessment processes

Forward-looking feedback

Forward-looking FeedbacknStudents need to receive appropriate feedback which they can use to ‘feed forward’ into future work.

nFeedback should be less final and judgemental (Boud, 1995)

nFeedback should be more interactive and forward-looking (Carless, 2002; Keppell 2005)

nFeedback should be timely and with a potential to be acted upon (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)

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Desire Paths

http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/19/desire-paths-in-web-ui/

New MindsetsnPrivileging mobile learning and

teaching access

nEmbedding digital literacies into all aspects of curriculum, learning, teaching and assessment.

nPrivileging diverse places of learning as opposed to a singular place of learning

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New MindsetsnAssisting teachers and students

to develop their own personalised learning strategy

nPrivileging user-generated content

nNew forms of assessment that are more learning-oriented

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Learning begins on the edge of your comfort zone

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