http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

HOW WEB TECHNOLOGY IS REVOLUTIONISING

EDUCATION (Curtis Bonk)

The Sage is Still on the Stage!

Personal Learning Network (PLN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0(Stephen Downes)

Elearning 1.0:• static packaged content • little true interactivity and learner input and • very little contact with a teacher/facilitator• represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT,

Blackboard, etc)

Elearning 2.0:• more student-centred• centred around a Personal Learning Environment using social software. • students generate and share content. • they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in

the world they can learn from.

(this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald)

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA/CULTURESOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKINGSOCIAL SOFTWARE

YouTubeFlickrMySpaceFacebookNing, etc

WHAT HAS CHANGED?(the locus of control is shifting)

• Decline of the Gatekeepers

• Publish then evaluate

• Content Creators; Content Rankers

• Everyone has access to everything

The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)

• “People just don’t subscribe to magazines anymore; they also subscribe to people.”

Agency has shifted from teacher to learner; from teaching to learning

Networked Learning

CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

(George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada)Principles of Connectivism:

• Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.

• Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.

• Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY

A GLOBAL AUDIENCE

• 9000 hrs of extra content each day (approx 20 hrs/minute)

• In 6 months generates as much content as major broadcasters in US did in 60 years

• Superb video from Michael Wesch: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

Rewriting or Killing our Cultures?

THE CROWD:

Collective wisdom?

Stupidity of the masses?

Is our culture beingre-written?

Is the Internet killing ourCulture? (Andrew Keen:the cult of the amateur)

MySpace/FacebookSeptember 2nd, 2008

• POLICE are trawling social networking sites and tracking text messages to find the organisers of a wild party shut down by the riot squad in Sydney.

• About 1500 people crammed into a Camperdown warehouse in Sydney's inner west for the party which was publicised through Facebook and other online forums.

(http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24273455-5014108,00.html)

September 2nd, 2008

• A wild teenage party promoted on MySpace has been condemned by Geelong police who were pelted with glass bottles when they tried to close it down.

(http://www.theage.com.au/national/myspace-party-teens-pelt police-with-bottles-20080902-47hg.html)

fear

Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com

NY Times, Oct 30th, 2007

Are we sociologically ready?

What are our ethical responsibilities as adults/educators:

• to our children/students?• to ourselves? (teacher sacked for

posting photo on MySpace)

Open Content

Creative Commons Licensing

from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

• TIME: end user innovation (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html)

• 'mid-career professionals‘ are predominant users

• Exemplifies power of networks (PLNs)

• Is revolutionising the way we communicate

• Powerful real time search tool

GENERATIONS

GENERATIONS

• Now possible to delineate characteristics of 4 different generations – Veterans, Boomers, X, and Y

• Danger of stereotyping

Digital Natives (Marc Prensky)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30864080@N00/347520047

Not all Digital Natives are Generation Y

http://flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/1460848008/

Digital Natives are:• Communicating (Instant Messaging, SMS)• Sharing and collaborating (blogs, wikis, MySpace, Facebook)• Buying and selling (eBay)• Exchanging (peer to peer technology; phone to phone file transfer)• Meeting (3D worlds)• Reporting and documenting (camera phones)• Evaluating (comments on blogs, photo and video sites)• Searching (Google)

They are CONTENT PRODUCERS and CONTENT RANKERSMany have an online presence. And…they don’t use email!

Generation Y

• Highly reliant on technology

• Have been doing almost all written work on keyboards since primary school

• Facebook is a must if you want to be in the social loop (and even if you don’t have your own FB account parts of your life are documented by others)

• Most are unconcerned about issues of privacy and their digital footprint

• They don’t use Twitter (seen as something only used by those who are too involved with the Internet), but do use FB status updates!

• Electronic/video/multi-user games

Gen Y are tech savvy but many Boomers are much better at using the Net productively.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

ISSUE:

are teaching

DIGITAL NATIVES

BOOMERS

are teaching

GEN Y

Whither the Learning Management System (LMS)?

• WebCT has gone; Bb decreasing market share

• Moodle is the rising star – why?

• Open Source

Proprietary v Open SourceProprietary

• Expensive

• Sophisticated appearance by default

• Locked in to fixed product for extended periods

Open Source

• Free or very cheap

• Host can modify product as often as desired

• Philosophy of collaboration and sharing

• May not look as sophisticated but level of functionality matches proprietary products

• Microsoft working on integration with Moodle (that's all you need to know!) http://www.educationlabs.com/projects/moodleproduct/Pages/default.aspx

• New version 2 will allow embedded media in discussion forums (cf Google Wave)

• Should be available mid 2010

ePortfolios

• Personal Learning Plan

(schools)

• Integration of Moodle and Mahara (OS)

• Mahara (or other eportfolio tool) should be optional

• Too much time and effort spent on interoperability and standards

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Virtual Worlds/Immersive Environments • Cloud-Based Applications

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Geolocation • Alternative Input Devices

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• Deep Tagging • Next-Generation Mobile

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Virtual Worlds/ ImmersiveEnvironments

• Cloud-Based Applications

Second Life

See Second Life in Education

Google Docs

Google Apps

Zoho Office

Flickr

YouTube

Blogger

etc

Microsoft Live (Skydrive)

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Geolocation • Alternative Input Devices

GEOTAGGING

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• Deep Tagging • Next-Generation Mobile

IMPACT FOR EDUCATORS?

Image courtesy of law_keven

Learning in the 21st Century

• “ I have seen predictions that a student doing a 3 year course by 2012 will experience the situation where most of the knowledge they have gained in year one will be completely out of date by the time they finish year 3.”

• “…the only sustainable approach…will be to find the learning and teaching strategies which will ensure that people embrace attitudes and behaviours anchored in lifelong learning.”

• “It is becoming …an imperative for industry to have staff who are lifelong learners and highly ICT literate.”

Greg Black, CEO, education.au (Campus Review 16/10/07)

TENSION

SOCIAL

SOFTWARE/PLN

ORGANISATIONAL DEMANDS (AQTF, AUDITING, ASSESSMENT, DUTY OF CARE, COPYRIGHT, etc)

V

ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING V

NETWORKED LEARNING

Teacher centred

Control

Top down

Hierarchical

External imposed authority

Right answers pre-determined

Only one end point

?

Student centred

Student choice

Bottom up

Distributive (flat)

Knowledge sharing among peers

Decisions made collectively

Multiple destinations

Engaging!

mutually exclusive?

“The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler)

Image courtesy of Nancy White

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Extent of Change?

• It is not all or nothing; it is gradual and context dependent

• Not all activity will be on the right hand side

• Personal values may dictate the rate at which you adopt changed approaches (if at all!)

Awareness or a Set of Skills?

• New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…

Employability Skills

• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

Where to Begin? (You)

• Join an online community or email list• Ask questions and initiate discussions about your interests and needs• Start publishing or tracking blogs, podcasts• Create a Twitter account (or Yammer for a walled garden equivalent)• Do an online course in multiliteracy; 23 things• Create social bookmarking and photosharing accounts• Create media – start simple:

– Upload photos to Flickr; comment on others’ photos– create Digital Stories (Photostory, Moviemaker) and upload to YouTube

• Search YouTube and other video repositories for educational content• Create a Ning or Facebook account for friends or family• Use a wiki or Google Docs to collaborate on a small project • Place yourself in the new habitus of learning – you need to do it to

understand and internalise the power of networks; reading and observing will not achieve this philosophical seachange

Education by and large has not changed. Syllabus/curriculum is still rooted in a past paradigm of fixed knowledge. The world beyond classrooms has changed a great deal, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing rate……

Photo courtesy of Sawrah, http://flickr.com/photos/sawrah/314474272/

Libraries v Classrooms?

• Check the 5 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999ZEf2EpHg

Michael Coghlanmichaelc@chariot.net.au

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