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  • + oblio421 Oblio ares 1 month ago
    Thanks

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  • + guest768179 guest768179 2 years ago
    When in Rome, why not let the Romans teach you?



    In Huangshan (黄山) southern Anhui province in Eastern China, Fu Shou-Bing logs on to the computer in the public library near his village. Since discovering ECpod.com (http://www.ECpod.com), the retired High School Chemistry teacher has been logging on almost every day to the English-Chinese teaching website. Sometimes he cycles the 25 miles home, cooks himself a simple lunch of rice and stir-fried vegetables with salted fish, often returning once again to the library and his new hobby in the evening.



    ECpod.com boasts an educational website that teaches members conversational English or Chinese (no 'this is an apple' stuff here) via video clips contributed by other members. After a vetting and often transcribing process by language tutors commissioned by the site, the clips are available free of charge in YouTube fashion. The twist? Members film each other in everyday activities, hoping other members will learn not just their native tongue, but also cultural innuendos lost in textbooks and more conventional means of language learning.



    'One member filmed himself cooking in his kitchen. We got a few emails asking what condiments he used,' says a bemused Warwick Hau, one of the site’s more public faces. One emailer even wanted to know if she could achieve the same Chinese stir-fry using ingredients from her regular CR Vanguard (华润超级) supermarket. 'We often forget our every day activities may not be as mundane to people on the other side of the world,' Hau adds. Another such clip is 'loaches' - a Chinese mother of 3 filmed her children and their friends playing with a bucket of loaches - slippery eel-like fish the children were picking up and gently squeezing between their fingers.



    Lately the members have also begun to make cross-border friends and contacts. The ECpal function works much the same way sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com work - members can invite each other to view their clips and make friends. And it has its fair share of juvenile humor as well. “Farting Competition” features two teenagers and graphic sound effects. Within several days, the clip was one of the most popular videos that week, likely due to mass-forwarding by the participants’ schoolmates.



    For other members keen to learn more than the fact juvenile humor is similar everywhere, there are many home videos featuring unlikely little nuggets of wisdom. “The last thing I learned from the site is why you never find green caps for sale in China”, says Adam Schiedler one of the English language contributors to the site. Green caps signify cuckolded husbands, particularly shameful in China as they are a huge loss of face. Adam vows not to buy any green headgear for his newfound friends.



    The subject matter of the videos often speaks volumes about its contributors. Members choose their own content and film the clip wherever they please, some of their efforts drawing attention to rural surroundings and the quaint insides of little homes otherwise not seen unless you backpack your way thru the tiny dirt roads and villages along the Chinese countryside.



    Idyllic countrysides and cooking lessons aside however, ECpod marries the latest video sharing technology with the old school way of teaching a language - from the native speakers on the street. It’s a modern, more convenient alternative to spending 6 months in China. And why not let the Chinese teach you?



    Visit http://www.ECpod.com
  • + cntom cntom 3 years ago
    I am learning from this slide and thanks Downes.
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  1. The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments Stephen Downes April 18, 2007
  2. Online Learning
    • Has been around since 1995 or so
    • Really grew with the World Wide Web
    • Has advanced tremendously
    • Many positive developments in the last few years worth sharing…
  3. Open Source Applications
    • Learning Management Systems
      • such as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, ATutor
    • Development and CommunityTools
    • such as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal,
    • WordPress
    • Supporting Software
    • such as Firefox, Thunderbird,
    • OpenOffice, Audacity
  4. Open Educational Resources
    • MIT’s OpenCourseWare project
      • and the OpenCourseWare Consortium
    • Open University’s Open Courses
    • OER initiatives
      • Hewlett, Wellcome, OECD, UNESCO
    • Creative Commons and CC materials
      • in Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia , Wikiversity, etc.
  5. New Environments
    • Multimedia explosion
      • podcasts, vodcasts, YouTube, Slideshare, more
    • Mobile computing
      • mobile phones, PDAs, etc.
    • The 3D web
      • Second Life is a start, we will see more of this
  6. Access…
    • One-to-one computing
      • such as the Maine laptop project,
      • now spreading rapidly
    • One Laptop per Child
      • has launched –
      • computers in Nigeria
    • Wireless access
      • 3G networks, WLAN…
    • It looks like nothing before…
      • Like open source
      • Like Social Networks
      • Like blogs and blogging
      • Like wikis and collaborative writing
      • Like tagging and Digg and…
    • It looks like Web 2.0
    Stallman The Internet of 2007
    • The Concept…
    • Learning is centered around the interests of the learner
    • This learning is immersive – learning by doing
    • The computer connects the student to the rest of the world
  7. Game Based Learning Types: Branching, Spreadsheet, Game, Lab… http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs =Article&key=1116274375
  8. Workflow (Informal) Learning Types: Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization… http://metatime.blogspot.com/
    • Online Learning at the Crossroads
    • On the one hand – we have developed tools and systems intended to support traditional classroom based learning
    • On the other hand – we could (should?) be developing tools and systems to support immersive learning
    • We should be developing for dynamic, immersive, living systems…
    • First Iteration:
    • User-Produced Media
    • Blogs and Blogging
    • Podcasting and
    • Vodcasting
    • Game mods and other
    • multimedia
    • Web 2.0: The Learning Network
    • The e-Portfolio lives in the intersection between the worlds for education, work, and home
    • A model for e-Portfolio as a learner-managed construct
    • Key requirement is easy-to-use tools and hosting services*
    • *E.g. the “e-Portfolio-as-blog” approach
      • Scott Wilson: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/entries/20050523083528
  9. The Idea of the PLE… http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt
  10. Plex Personal Learning Environment Example http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/
  11. Collecting and Filtering RSS http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm
  12. RSS Writr http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
  13. Edu_RSS Viewer http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?action=viewer
  14. Edu_RSS 0.2 http://www.downes.ca/edurss02.htm
  15. The Challenge… How to find the right resource…
    • at the right time
    • for the right person
  16. The old way – use descriptions
    • Dublin Core
    • Learning Object Metadata
    http://www.capuano.biz/Papers/ITS%202000/ITS%202000.htm
  17. The New Way: Recommender Systems
    • The idea is that associations are mapped between:
      • User profile – properties of given users
      • Resource profile – properties of the resource
      • Previous evaluations of other resources
    http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/projecting-quality http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/quality-standards-its-all-about-teaching-and-learning/
  18. Relations between Entities…
  19. Finding Resources is like Finding Patterns in the Mesh the knowledge is in the network the knowledge is the network Old: universals – rules – categories New: patterns – patterns – similarities Tenenbaum http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.tenenbaum.html
  20. Pattern Recognition… Gibson
  21. stands for? Or is caused by? Distributed Representation = a pattern of connectivity Hopfield
  22.  
  23. Where is the PLE?
  24. The way networks learn is the way people learn…
  25. Network Learning…
    • Hebbian associationism
      • based on concurrency
    • Back propagation
      • based on desired outcome
    • Boltzman
      • based on ‘settling’, annealing
    This…
  26. Leads to This… Personal Learning… To teach is to model and to demonstrate To learn is to practice and reflect
  27. What is the PLE?
  28. We can get an idea of what the PLE looks like by drilling down into the pieces…
    • Model
    • conceptual frameworks
      • wiki (wiki API, RSS)
      • concept maps (SVG, mapping format)
      • gliffy (SVG?)
    • reference frameworks
      • Wikipedia
      • video / 2L 3D representation – embedded spaces
    The question is – how to transport and represent models that are actually used?
    • Demonstrate
    • reference examples
      • code library
      • image samples
    • thought processes
      • show experts at work (Chaos Manor)
    • application
      • case studies
      • stories
    The question is, how can we connect the learner with the community at work?
    • Practice
    • scaffolded practice
      • game interfaces
      • sandboxes
    • job aids
      • flash cards
      • cheat sheets
    • games and simulations
      • mod kits
      • mmorpgs
    The question is, how can we enable access to multiple environments that support various activities?
    • Reflection
    • guided reflection
      • forms-based input
      • presentations and seminars
    • journaling
      • blogs, wikis
    • communities
      • discussion, sharing
    The question is, how can we assist people to see themselves, their practice, in a mirror?
    • Choice – Identity - Creativity
    • simulated or actual environments that present tasks or problems
    • OpenID, authentication, feature or profile development
    • Portfolios & creative libraries
    People talk about ‘motivation’ – but the real issue here is ownership
  29. Learning Networks Architecture
  30. http://www.downes.ca Downes

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