WE ARE THE WEB:
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
OF THE
WEB 2.0
Antonio Vantaggiato
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
APAD
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2009
Redondo Beach edition

http://blogsforedu.pbwiki.com
Everything is on-line!

Time flies... 2000-2009
e-learning model for Sagrado en Línea
Congreso Puertorriqueño de Web e-ducación
Research on Innovación in Education
¡Moodle in Puerto Rico (2004-05)!
Proyect e-learning Manifesto
APAD, President (apad.ac.pr)
netedu.info
The STEMmED Project (2008-2010)

We are the Web!
Mass collaboration
Users provide for contents
Collective Inteligence

1.Introduction: Web 2.0
2.Turbulence/Confusion
3.Gradual Adjustments
Program for HOPE
XXIX

The Internet? Bah!
Clifford Stoll
27 Feb. 1995
1995: The Internet?
One to many

WEB 2.0
users
Upload content

users
edit content

What about Authority?
We all contribute ::: Social Construction of Knowledge

“By removing the central
control points, the Web enabled a self-
organizing, self-stimulating growth
of contents and links on a
scale the world has literally never
before experienced.”
--David Weinberger
No control
>>>Power to the People<<<

users
Upload content

users
Upload content

users
Upload content

users
collaborate

Welcome, William
Hamlet (facebook edition, XXI Cent.)
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/antwerplettuce/hamlet.html

We, the users
Are the new Web!

What about copyright?
It must be thought out anew…

Some Rights Reserved

JRLN: Web:::educa+10n Journal
http://blogs.netedu.info/?page_id=194
mashup
Among the most important educational technologies: horizon
report 2008 (nmc)

bloggin’ in the wind!
(weblogs)

CogDogBlog
Alan Levine

DigiZen
El blogfesor Mario Núñez

bavatuesdays
Jim Groom

Blog (RSS) aggregation
A pleasant reading!

microblogging
Twitter, FriendFeed

Some friends I have…
Twitter! Micro-blogs of 140 characters…

This is me
in Twitter

This is Howard Rheingold
Author of “Smart Mobs”

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

This is Barack Obama
US President

And this is Britney!
…what?

…And what about Education?
Visions of students

Question
IS our
children
learning?
-George W. Bush

…Indeed
Childrens do
learn!
-George W. Bush

Michael Wesch
Daniel Altschuler www.stemmed.org
Plus: Panel
Núñez-Meléndez-Córdova
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
15 May 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Symposium: Science & Web 2.0
A Dialogue

What about educación?
What to do?

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

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

Predictions 2009
Real education ...is about learning to live and
learning to make a living (John Adams), an idea
that got lost 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

Predictions 2009, 2
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

Educational Technology
Jean Paul Lyotard (1979): miniaturization and
commercialization of machines would
change “learning
the way
was acquired, classified, made
available and exploited”.

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

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).

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)

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

The education we want
Una educación desde la cuna hasta la tumba,
inconforme y reflexiva, que nos inspire un nuevo
modo de pensar y nos incite a descubrir quienes somos
en una sociedad que se quiera más a sí misma, que
aproveche al máximo nuestra creatividad
inagotable y conciba una ética-y tal vez una estética-
para nuestro afán desaforado y legítimo de
superación personal.”
- Gabriel García Márquez

The education we want, 2
Papert, Minsky & Kay (2005):
• The key educational task is to make
connections between
powerful ideas and passionate interests.
• Teach to think deeply
• Teach to think rigorously

An experiment...
Poll: Web + Cellphone >> GREAT idea!

Another experiment
Again, phone + Web

Source:
www.internetworldstats.com, 2008
Internet
Access

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

Baby boomers
• TV, typewriters, memos
• Gen X
• Videogames, computers, e-mail
Net Gen
• Web
• Mobile equipment
• Instant Messaging
• On-line Communities
The situation (1)
-D. Oblinger, Educause

The Situation (2)
net gen

Possibilities & Challenges
WE ARE THE WEB!

The Social Web
Browsers
Blogs
Tools

Revolution?
Jim Groom (2008)
bavatuesdays.com

Blogs
Web logs

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

State of the Blogosphere 2008

State of the Blogosphere 2008

Feeds
• Suscripciones
RSS
80

Feed

Feed, aggregation

RSS

BLOGS w/ CLASS
And the vantaZEN method

a class of blogs…
http://tecnoinfozen.wordpress.com

Tag Cloud

And a collaborative research…

Info overload
Leon Botstein: “It overwhelms you with too
much information, much of which is
hopelessly unreliable or beside the
point.”
92

Info overload
Leon Botstein: “It overwhelms you with too
much information, much of which is
hopelessly unreliable or beside the
point.”
It is a very sad thing that
nowadays there is so little
useless information.
-Oscar Wilde
92

And facebook?

And Google Docs?

So?
Who’s going to organize all this
information?

rss aggregators
RSS: The New Web’s glue!

Class Aggregation
netvibes

Who’s going to store &
catalogue all this info?
We are…?!

Enter Social Bookmarking

del.icio.us tags
97

Generating a... Folksonomy
Popular Taxonomy…
a social System
106

del.icio.us tags

del.icio.us & rss: feed!
Easily embeddable in blogs etc.

del.icio.us & rss
Automatic blog posting

A del.icio.us project
TAGs allow to define projects
URLs get stored under a
particular TAG
A Resource Repository!

Questions?
Antonio Vantaggiato
avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
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