What is web 2.0

• Vision – Collaborative environment for the creation and dissemination of information

• Bad implementation as ‘Web 1’• Ward Cunningham 1994 – first social software• Web 2.0 is all about

– user generated content– collaboration

via social software

• Platform

textimagessoundvideolocationseventsinterestsrefinements:bookmarkstweets…..

Creating and Sharing Content

createsavefinduse

re-usemix

mash-uprepurpose

sharepublish

COLLABORATE

Web 2.0 is all about

who does what?

Socio-technical systems

Web 2.0 gives rise to new socio-technical systems

where the social and technical are indivisible

learnedway backwith LambdaMoo(1992)

Architecture of participation

use

brings advantage

in discovery

eg now easy to track events in multiple lives

what does this mean for society ?

New affordances and capabilities

Blooms modified hierarchy

What Web 2.0 enables

• Delicious, digg,

technical discussion and gadgetry

socio-political discussion

Matthew Hurst

2007

Learning and teachingLearning and teaching

We know

People work with each other

They learn from each other

They are capable of determining what they want to learn

What are the values that we want to promulgate?

How do we want to affect society?

Do we want autonomous, independent, self-actualised life-long learners who decide what they want to learn and how they learn itIf so, how do we ‘grow’ them

Learner empowerment

want learners

who are enthusiastic about learning

who will take responsibility for their learning, now and life-long

who will play a positive role in society

Ingredients

PLEs? it’s a movement

learners taking control of their own* learning

* group and individual learning

Some class practice

A couple of approaches I like

Social Constructivisim (Vygotsky)

learning in social settings

learning in groups and teams

Zone of Proximal Development / scaffolding

Constructionism (Papert)

learn by constructing artefacts to for public displayaccommodation and assimilation

Facilitated by (Web 2.0) tools

Facilitated by a PLE

currentknowledge

future knowledge with ano’s scaffolding

not reachable as yet

Zone of Proximal Development

ZPD

…applied scaffolding

pagestructure

content suggestions

multi-waysuggestion /feedback

…constructionism

Whole-class project

…communication / participation withGoogle Groups

168 messages68 topicsguess 75% mebut significant effect

feedback from one class member: felt involved in a course for the first time

EBL/PBL/participatory courses

Create independent learners?Learners are generally institutionalisedProduce team-workers?Definitely (but with self-improving groups)

Benefit from Web 2.0 tools / PLE?Yes, leveraging social constructivist and constructionist approachesCreate new socio-technical organisation?Yes, temporarily

Savanna – Futurelab 2005

PLEs: SystemsPersonal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.

This includes providing support for learners toset their own learning goals manage their learning; managing both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.

A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems

TheManchester

PLE

some aspects of web 2.0 support for research)

Only cover two areas

• Finding, filtering and selecting information resources

• Communication between researchers

conclusion

The L&T question

“Is Web 2.0 the point at which we finally begin to challenge academic mindsets around both pedagogy and learning technology?”

We need vast improvements in learning skills and learning culture in order to fully leverage the potential of Web 2.0

But we can still, here and now, move in promising, rewarding and fruitful directions for learning and teaching

The research question

“Is Web 2.0 the point at which can use it in our research activities?”

That depends on the nature of our cultural research niches, where, how and what we do, how we communicate

But we can, here and now, move in promising, rewarding and fruitful directions to augment existing research practice

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