e-Learning 3.0: Learning through the eXtended Smart Web
Transcript of e-Learning 3.0: Learning through the eXtended Smart Web
e-Learning 3.0:Learning through the eXtended
Smart Web
Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth
Keynote Speech for National IT Training Conference, Dublin, Ireland: 25 March 2011
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“The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young" - Bertrand Russell
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“One day every town in America
will have a telephone!”
- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)
The future?
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E-Learning 3.0
1. Distributed (Cloud) Computing2. Extended Smart Mobile Technology3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering4. 3D Visualisation and Interaction
Source: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
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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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New and emerging technologies...
http://www.weirdthings.org.uk
...are often met with opposition.
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Introducing computers into schools
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“Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer....
.... should be”.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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“A computer once beat me at chess...
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...but was no match for me at kickboxing.”
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The pace of change is
accelerating
How will we keep up with it?
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“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.”
– David Warlick
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Web 1.0: Anything can link to anything
Source: Sabin-Corneliu Buraga www.localseoguide.com
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Web 2.0: User
participation
Source: Sabin-Corneliu Buraga
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Web 3.0: Existing data re-connected
for other (smarter) uses
Adapted from : Sabin-Corneliu Buraga http://farm4.static.flickr.com
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Web 3.0 is..
“...the Web of Openness. A web that breaks the old silos, links everyone, everything, everywhere, and makes the whole thing potentially smarter." - Greg Boutan
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Web 3.0Semantic Web
Web 1.0The Web
Web x.0Meta Web
Web 2.0Social Web
Degree of Social Connectivity
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Web 3.0Semantic Web
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Degree of Social Connectivity
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Connects information Connects people
Connects knowledge Connects intelligence
The eXtended Web
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Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Web x.0 Web x.0+
Syntactic Web
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Pragmatic Web
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Syntactic Web
Semantic Web
Pragmatic Web
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MUDs/MOOs
Forums
Listserv
Personal Webpage
Newsgroup
Wiki
Blog
Social Network
Geo Mashup
Social Tagging
Smart Media Devices
Intelligent Collaborative Filtering
MMORPGs
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Semantic Web
Pragmatic Web
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Personal Learning Environments
Learning Management Systems (iMLE or VLE)
Adaptive Smart Systems
Intelligent SystemsAugmented Reality and Virtuality
RSS
HTML
XHTML
XML
Intelligent Agents
OWL
RDF
We are already seeing early evidence of the Smart eXtended Web
http://chemistscorner.com
Intelligent Filtering Recommender systems
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“We are now implicitly and explicitly connected to each other. Mobile phones do this more than anything else, because now our connectedness travels with us everywhere we go.”
Mark Curtis (2005)
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Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. (2009 statistics)
Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
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Mobile phones are the natural communication
tool of choice for younger users.
Are we preparing this generation for the future
or for the past?
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Social media use
Source: http://econsultancy.com
2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute
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CreateCollaborate
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The Flickrverse
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A picture speaks a thousand words
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The Twitterverse
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Retweeting is not repetition. It’s amplification
Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/
Intuitive devices
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How do I organise all this content?
Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.
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But how can I capture a record of everything I see?
Camera
Coloured caps
Coloured caps
Mirror
Projector
Phone blogs.fayobserver.com
MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...
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...enables you to take pictures using the framing gesture and manipulate documents with natural gestures...
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chi2009.org
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...will project onto any surface...
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...or your students!
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Natural user interfaces
Non touch systems
Gestural interaction
Facial feature recognition
Speech to text
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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Context awareness –
See overlays of information about the object in front of you...
layar.com
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...or visualise the ancient world using images of long gone buildings overlaid onto present day sites.
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Needle biopsy in medical training
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Sports training (virtual annotations)
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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
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