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WEB 2.0 and THE FUTURE…

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.(William Gibson)

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

We’re going to have to rethink a few things:

• Copyright• Authorship• Identity• Ethics

• Governance• Privacy• Commerce• Ourselves

TECTONIC

SHIFT

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The Internet – more than just a book

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

"Web 2.0" refers to web development and web design that facilitates interactive information sharing, ....user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, ... social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0(Stephen Downes/Tim O’Reilly)

Elearning 1.0:• static packaged content • little true interactivity and learner input and • very little contact with a tutor.• 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)

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA/CULTURESOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKINGSOCIAL SOFTWARE

YouTubeFlickrMySpaceFacebookTwitterNing, etc

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

• Decline of the Gatekeepers (disintermediation)

• Publish then evaluate is now the norm

• 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.”

Networked Learning

• 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

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

Killing our Culture? Or Rewriting It?

Author: Andrew Keen

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/Facebook in the Media

September 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

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)

Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com

NY Times, Oct 30th, 2007

Open Content

Creative Commons Licensing

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

Open Business Models

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)

The Future of (Learning) Institutions in a Digital Age

• “Traditional learning environments convey knowledge via overwhelmingly copyright-protected publications. Networked learning, contrastingly, is an “open source” culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.”(HASTAC Report, June 2009)

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.(William Gibson)

Google Docs

Google Apps

Zoho Office

Flickr

YouTube

Blogger

etc

Microsoft Live

CLOUD COMPUTING

ALTERNATIVE INPUT DEVICES

NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE

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GEOTAGGING

IMPACT?

Image courtesy of law_keven

The Future of (Learning) Institutions in a Digital Age

• “traditional institutions must adapt or risk a growing mismatch between how they teach and how this new generation* learns” (and works) (HASTAC Report, June 2009)

Note*: this new generation includes a good many Baby Boomers. It is not just about younger people.

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Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens will enter places of work and learning highly connected to a network of peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual learning, and collaboration. They may expect to be able to make use of these personal learning and social networks, and the technologies that make these networks possible, in their places of work or study. These web 2.0 citizens operate in a world that is open and mobile, and they are unlikely to accept authority that is automatically assigned to a position. Their world is flat and devoid of hierarchy. In a world where information about their areas of interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will place greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond classroom or workplace boundaries,and knowing where to get the knowledge and information they need, rather than having that knowledge and information themselves.

Extent of Change?

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

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

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

Image courtesy of Nancy White

Michael Coghlanmichaelc@chariot.net.au

THANK YOU

This presentation on the web at http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/

Other Resources

• LIBRARIES V CLASSROOMS - check the 5 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999ZEf2EpHg

• 21ST CENTURY LEARNING SPACES

Comprehensive list at http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/home/pid/777