AN E-LEARN MANIFESTO:
APAD’S PROJECT
Antonio Vantaggiato
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
APAD
apad.ac.pr
blogs.netedu.info

The Internet? Bah!
Clifford Stoll
27 Feb. 1995
1995: Internet?
What were we doing in 1995?

Web 2.0
is changing everything...

WEB 2.0
users
provide content

users
edit content

author’s copyright?
need to rethink it...

This is Jim Groom
...just relaxing after his talk @ Blogfesores 2009!

This is Mike Wesch
Author of “The Machine is Us/ing Us”

This is Barack Obama
US President

And this is Britney!
…why?

Blogs I “read”
El Caparazón: Dolors Reig

CogDogBlog
Alan Levine

DigiZen
Blogfesor Mario Nuñez

bavatuesdays
Jim Groom

education 2.0
The issues and possibilities being created
by 2.0 technologies
Compel us to RETHINK (see
Wesch!) many ideas... education,
copyright, knowledge, access, ...
In the HOPE changes be produced...
everywhere.

Effects of technology & the Web
Technology enables modalities such as
constructivism, etc. (Norman & Spohrer
1996)
+ Significant
transformation of the
teaching-learning process (Hannafin 2003)

Slowness to adopt…
Their little vocation at
innovation made
universities delay 30
years the adoption of
the printing press.
-Alejandro Piscitelli

however
...

However...
The Web is not being used at the
max of its innovation capability;
It’s used to “reformulate what is
already familiar” (Alan Kay)

Houston, we have a problem…

Does education need to change?

What should education try to do?
Humans Will Not
Survive the Century
-Robert Caillau (CERN), 2006

...change is about to come
Real education ...is about learning to live and
learning to make a living (John Adams), an idea
got lost
that between the late 1700s and
today. High schools and universities have simply
failed to teach what needs to be taught. This
will change in 2009.
—Roger Schank

e-Learn
The Web: Fundamental
pedagogic environment
(Suter 2005), not just a
tool…

Convergence
“...we must assume the technology of online
learning will produce learning systems of
a blended nature that are far
better than the prior 'gold standard' of
the face-to-face class.
As a beneficial side effect, distinctions
will blur between traditional
learning and distance learning.” (Hiltz &
Turoff 2005).

A new territory
The limits of my
language are the
limits of my world
-L. Wittgenstein

Source:
www.internetworldstats.com, 2008
USA 72.5
EU
59.9
Norway
87.7
Puerto Rico 35
Antigua
Chile 85.9
44.9
Costa Rica 35.7
Argentina
39.3
Brazil 26.1
Internet
Access

Dec. 2008: State of the
Blogosphere
http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

State of the Blogosphere 2008

Competencies 2.0
The student 2.0 must change role: from
information consumer to prosumer -
producer & consumer at once...
Critical Analisys / new media interpretation
Change from information overload to
knowledge production
56

empowerment 2.0
At last a simple, accessible, freeing
technology. WE ALL may:
Edit a video, compose & play music, edit
encyclopedias...
Install programs & experiment w/ them...
Ideas flow freely. A Renaissance 2.0?

Revolution
-Jim Groom (2008)
bavatuesdays.com

Open
Issues

I> Delivery
Education is delivered
Model: transmission of knowledge
to Show
To Teach <--

II> Place
If knowledge is delivered, then…
place and is
… learning happens in a
delivered by an agent
THUS…
Learning happens within the
classroom

III> The agent
… an expert transmits
knowledge (two fallacies in one
sentence!)
What of the scientific method?
Does it get used to teach science?

IV> Identity
Methods and architectures from
elementary education are
applied at all levels

V> Mediation of technology
Always been
there!

VI> Content
Problem of content
200% courses in LMS’s
work as content holders
… Edu Tech is just the
funnel

VII> Slow Learning
Learning doesn’t
happen in a flash.
It is a difficult
(social) process.
Reflection, work,
Slow Food

Slowness
slowness and
Find ways that “encourage
wholeness within the practice of everyday
schooling”
“away
Move education from cultures of
materialization and fast knowledge”.
-Geetha Narayanan (2006)

elearnmanifesto.org

Manif{i}esto 2.0
A manifesto is a public declaration of
principles and intentions (Wikipedia)
(Quasi) Públic Construction

Manifesto
Manifiesto de Cartagena,
Simón Bolívar 1812
Communist Manifiesto, Karl
Marx & Frederick Engels
1848
Surrealist Manifiesto, André
Breton 1924

How Web technologies ought
to be used to transform
teaching & learning and to
provide access to quality
instruction to all?
eLearn Manif(i)esto
APAD’s project

I. Submit and publish a paper
to articulate your
interpretation of the
aforementioned themes...
eLearn Manif(i)esto
Participation I

II. A book with selected papers
will be edited and published...
eLearn Manif(i)esto
Participation II

III. Through the blog point out
your doubts, ask new
questions... and propose your
ideas for the Manifesto
eLearn Manif(i)esto
Participation III

IV. The book’s last chapter will
contain the actual Manifesto,
synthetized from the ideas
discussed in the blog...
eLearn Manif(i)esto
Participation IV

V. The Manifesto will keep alive
after publication... thanks to
the blog.
www.elearnmanifesto.org
eLearn Manif(i)esto
Participation V

(one) Open Learning
Starting Points
e-Learn Manifesto

(three) ...
Starting Points
eLearn Manifesto

Open Learning 2009
As free and open learning becomes the
norm for millions of learners around the globe, high
schools, universities, and corporate training centers
will need to adjust their policies, procedures,
and philosophies related to teaching and learning.
If not, it may be time to say goodbye to many of
them in 2009.
—Curt Bonk

(two) Slow Learning
Starting Points
e-Learn Manifesto

Participate!
Antonio Vantaggiato
avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
apad.ac.pr
elearnmanifesto.org
blogs.netedu.info