MicroLearning 2007

MicroLearning 2007 Where next?

I I wouldn’t start from here …

TB‐L’s original vision The original thing I wanted to do was to make it a collaborative medium, a place where we (could) all meet and read and write. http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=20

[From Paul Baran, quot; On Distributed Communications: MEMORANDUM: RM‐3420‐PR,quot; AUGUST 1964, the Rand Corporation (available online at: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/.)]

Messiness and Education WSJ 2001 Marc Eisenstadt, John Seely Brown, et al: • interactive • personalised curriculums • lifelong learning • distributed knowledge

1985: Born — Internet 2 years old; Nintendo release 'Super Mario Brothers' 1990: Start primary school — WWW being conceived 1992: 7 years old — first SMS message sent 1995: Amazon, eBay founded 1996: Heading towards secondary school — Hotmail launched; pay‐as‐you‐go mobile tariffs; instant messaging 1998: Teenage years — Google founded 1999: Studying for GCSEs — Napster; Blogger 2001: Wikipedia; iPod 2002: Studying for A Levels — social‐networking services appear 2003: University — Skype 2005: Graduation approaches — YouTube John Naughton: http://oscal.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lecture‐text.pdf See also: http://www.preoccupations.org/2007/05/making_the_poin.html

Slide courtesy of Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo! (http://tinyurl.com/3cjgpp; pdf)

IIa Where next? Inspirations …

Creating a small piece that can be loosely joined with others is truer to the spirit of the internet than building the monolithic “virtual learning environments” and closed communities that currently fill our schools and universities. That’s the true Dopplr shift: away from tools that deny their users’ previous online existence, and towards tools that fit into the way people actually live. Richard Sandford (futurelab)

Calling a technology a coral reef is the highest compliment I can pay. Dave Winer

The Internet as a technology teaches us one value more deeply than any other: the joy of being connected. David Weinberger

Matt Jones, May 2004. See previous slide for link.

IIb Where next? First steps …

http://pinkyparky.blogspot.com/

http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/ratemymates/

In the workplace, learners can, when they need, steal their knowledge from the social periphery made up of other, more experienced workers and ongoing, socially shared practice. The classroom, unfortunately, tends to be too well secured against theft. John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid (1992)

Give good things!

Hey, this is my job; this is where I spend my days; it's my time away from my friends and family. It better be nice. Joel Spolsky

… we … have recently been collectively developing a much clearer idea of what the Web is really like as a medium in and of itself. Marc Andreessen

III Ch...ch...ch...ch...changes for Natives and Immigrants

As humans, we're sort of in the business of disturbing each other. It might be good to embrace the uncertainty that implies, and maybe also remember the value of humility. Johnnie Moore

… one reason schools work badly is that they're trying to make intelligence using recipes for wisdom. Paul Graham

Persistence Searchability Replicability Invisible audience http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2007.html

Teens in America are in touch with their peers on average 65 hours a week, compared to about 4 hours a week in preindustrial cultures. Robert Epstein

Displacing Email for Personal Communication Changing the Nature of Software Discovery and Distribution Facebook Marketplace: A Craigslist Killer Facebook: The Power of Software that Knows Who You Know

Facebook's Privacy Policy 3306 words long … And concludes: We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

IV Play

http://tinyurl.com/ypjpvd & http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2074528,00.html

What's needed is a willingness to allow more of the apparent chaos. Johnnie Moore

V So, what next?

Schools are institutions of learning but are they, themselves, learning institutions? (to paraphrase John Seely Brown)

• creative, cross‐curricular ICT • reverse IT & P2P work • blogs, wikis • audio‐ & video‐casting • online photo galleries • RSS & aggregators • social bookmarking (del.icio.us) & tagging • social networks & personal learning networks • critical thinking (read & edit Wikipedia) Acknowledgments to Demos: Their Space : Education for a digital generation (pdf)

• digital & media literacy throughout the school • run a staff/pupil network council • “cool tools” monitor • educate the parents Above all, create & sustain an ethos of trust & openness.

1. You can’t control, but you can influence. 2. Educate about ICT, don’t drill. 3. Recognise your medium is one of collaborative, distributed networks.

David Smith Talk at MicroLearning 2007 www.preoccupations.org preoccupations@gmail.com

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