MicroLearning 2007

Slide 1: MicroLearning 2007 Where next?

Slide 2: I I wouldn’t start from here …

Slide 3: 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

Slide 4: [From Paul Baran, \" On Distributed Communications: MEMORANDUM: RM‐3420‐PR,\" AUGUST 1964, the Rand  Corporation (available online at: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/.)]

Slide 5: Messiness and Education WSJ 2001 Marc Eisenstadt, John Seely Brown, et al: • interactive • personalised curriculums • lifelong learning • distributed knowledge

Slide 9: 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 10: Slide courtesy of Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo! (http://tinyurl.com/3cjgpp; pdf)

Slide 11: IIa Where next? Inspirations …

Slide 14: 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)

Slide 15: Calling a technology a coral reef is the highest compliment I can pay. Dave Winer

Slide 16: The Internet as a technology teaches us one  value more deeply than any other: the joy of  being connected.  David Weinberger

Slide 18: Matt Jones, May 2004. See previous slide for link.

Slide 19: IIb Where next? First steps …

Slide 23: http://pinkyparky.blogspot.com/

Slide 24: http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/ratemymates/

Slide 32: 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)

Slide 33: Give good things!

Slide 34: 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

Slide 39: … 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

Slide 40: III Ch...ch...ch...ch...changes for Natives and Immigrants

Slide 41: 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

Slide 42: …  one reason schools work badly is that they're trying to  make intelligence using recipes for wisdom. Paul Graham

Slide 43: But

Slide 44: Persistence Searchability Replicability  Invisible audience http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2007.html

Slide 45: 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

Slide 46: 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

Slide 47: 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

Slide 49: IV Play

Slide 50: http://tinyurl.com/ypjpvd & http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2074528,00.html

Slide 51: What's needed is a willingness to allow more of the apparent chaos. Johnnie Moore

Slide 53: V So, what next?

Slide 54: Schools are institutions of learning but are they, themselves, learning institutions? (to paraphrase John Seely Brown)

Slide 55: • 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)

Slide 56: • 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.

Slide 57: 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.

Slide 58: David Smith Talk at MicroLearning 2007 www.preoccupations.org preoccupations@gmail.com