Engaging Digital Natives With Web 2.0 Jcd

Engaging Digital Natives with Web 2.0 Jennifer Dorman Staff Development Facilitator Central Bucks School District http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalnatives

Agenda
The Case for Digital Learning
The Learning Profile of Digital Natives
The Evolution of Web 2.0
Implications of Participatory Culture
21 st Century Literacies
Web 2.0 Applications That Support 21 st Century Learning

Essential Questions
What is education for?
What attributes do we value and need in our young people as workers, as learners?
Where does learning happen?
What role should young people themselves play in shaping their education?
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/lit_reviews/14_19_Review.pdf

Powerful Learning Environments
Powerful learning environments are usually defined as being environments that seek to develop complex and higher order cognitive skills, deep conceptual understanding and metacognitive skills such as the ability to self-regulate one’s own learning
de Corte 1990

Learning Career
A learning career describes the changes in a student’s dispositions to knowledge and learning across contexts and time.
Bloomer 1997

Based in Research
Such outcomes, which foster the productive use of acquired knowledge and skill and support the transfer of learning, have long been deemed desirable, and recent research has shown how digital technologies can positively affect powerful learning environments
de Corte 1994; Bereiter and Scardamalia 2003; Lehtinen 2003; Kremer 2004

Education is changing.
Competition is changing internationally.
The workplace, jobs, and skill demands are changing.
The Case for Digital Learning

The Case for Digital Learning http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html

The Implications
These changes, among others, are ushering us toward a world where knowledge, power, and productive capability will be more dispersed than at any time in our history—a world where value creation will be fast, fluid, and persistently disruptive.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

Economic Impacts
Shifts in the nature of business organizations and the growing importance of knowledge-based work also favor strong non-routine cognitive skills, such as abstract reasoning, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.
Increasingly, the term “knowledge workers” is applied to workers who go beyond just providing information to now being responsible for generating and conveying knowledge needed for decision-making.
The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States

Economic Impacts
Technology-mediated learning—the use of computers and other information technologies as an integral part of the learning process—is gaining ground through such applications as computer-based instruction, Internet-based instruction, and other methods for customized learning.
New technologies in the next 10 to 20 years offer tremendous potential to revolutionize the way education and training is delivered in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States

Digital Natives

Digital Natives
Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games, instantaneous communication, and the Internet.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants – Marc Prensky

Digital Natives
It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous information environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.

Digital Natives
“Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures” - Dr. Bruce D. Berry of Baylor College of Medicine.
it is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up

The Challenge
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast.
They like to parallel process and multi-task.
They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite.
Learning Profile of Digital Natives Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants – Marc Prensky

Learning Profile of Digital Natives
They prefer random access (like hypertext).
They function best when networked.
They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards.
They prefer games to “serious” work.

Web 2.0

Web 1.0  Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?
"It's made of people. It's not content."
Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine
"The interconnected web."
Andrew Anker, Six Apart
"Web 2.0 is the two-way web where content finds you."
Ron Rasmussen, KnowNow
"People doing things together on the web."
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
"Web 2.0 is about platforms that other people can build on."
Rajat Paharia, Bunchball

The New WWW
Whatever
Whenever
Wherever
Tom March, Web-based educator, author, and instructional designer

What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of static websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users
The evolution of social software
Tim O’Reilly

Social Software
The term social software came into use in 2002 and is generally attributed to Clay Shirky.
Shirky, a writer and teacher on the social implications of internet technology, defines social software simply as “software that supports group interaction”

Social Software and Education
Social software and the changing goals in education seem to be moving in the same direction.

What does Web 2.0 look like?
Creation, Collaboration, Community
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
Information Aggregating
Social Bookmarking and Content Tagging
Social Networking

Participatory Culture

Participatory Culture
According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century Henry Jenkins

Forms of Participatory Culture
Affiliations — memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media
Expressions — producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups

Forms of Participatory Culture
Collaborative Problem-solving — working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge
Circulations — Shaping the flow of media

Benefits
A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including:
opportunities for peer-to-peer learning,
a changed attitude toward intellectual property,
the diversification of cultural expression,
the development of skills valued in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.

Impact on Learning
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.
These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.

Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes

Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities

Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources

Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information

Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms

Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0?
Is it possible to draw on the activities emerging through social software to create learning communities which offer young people personalized, collaborative learning experiences such as those that are already emerging in the world outside the school gates ?
www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education.htm

Social Software and Learning
Some of the key attributes of social software in relation to education are that it:
Delivers communication between groups.
Enables communication between many people.
Provides gathering and sharing resources .
Delivers collaborative collecting and indexing of information.
Allows syndication and assists personalization of priorities.
Has new tools for knowledge aggregation and creation of new knowledge.
Delivers to many platforms as is appropriate to the creator, recipient and context.

Delivers communication between groups
There are implicit mechanisms that allow interest groups to electronically coalesce – to be aware of what each other are doing and to review each others’ actions and to allow those actions to benefit each other member of a community.

Enables communication between many people
If the authors wish, all their work is available to the rest of the digital world.
Access is available to expert and novice alike and in fact social software provides systems whereby experts and novices can work together.

Provides gathering and sharing resources
It provides a means of gathering and making material available.
Simple acts like putting holiday snapshots on a searchable photo site can give others insight into the location, for instance; for other people making available their work in progress can both inform others and prompt critical feedback.

Delivers collaborative collecting and indexing of information
No longer is knowledge limited by historically constructed visions of curricula.
There are new ways of organizing and finding knowledge objects that are of interest to you and the groups with whom you share interests.

Allows syndication and assists personalization of priorities
There are mechanisms to be passively active.
You can choose what information streams you want to be kept informed about and that information will come to you rather than you having to go and seek it.
It will help you both keep abreast with your co-workers’ online activity and those other information streams you actually prioritize.

Has new tools for knowledge aggregation and creation of new knowledge
The massive uptake of MP3 music players is indicative of a move to collecting material from many sources and aggregating it for our personal use.
There are also tools that allow that content to be modified and incorporated in new formulations: the concept of a mash-up.

Delivers to many platforms as is appropriate to the creator, recipient and context
Creators and users of social software tools and content know their lives are not constrained to desktops, they use many media: mobile phones; PDAs; MP3 players and games consoles.
They increasingly expect that the digital part of their life will integrate with them in the context that they are in.

Supporting 21 st Century Learning

Blogs
Weblogs are easily updatable personal websites, often used as personal journals.
The social aspect of weblogs can be seen in the ability for readers to comment on postings, to post links to other blogs and, through using pingback or trackback functions, to keep track of other blogs referencing their posts.
This enables bloggers to know who is referring to and building on what they say in their blogs.

Blog Hosting
Blogmeister –
http://classblogmeister.com/ (school code required)
Edublogs –
http://edublogs.org/
Blogger –
https://www.blogger.com/
21 Classes –
http://21classes.com/ (free service is limited)
http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Blogs

Podcasts
iPod + Broadcast = Podcast
Amateur radio
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files over the Internet using RSS syndication formats for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

Podcasts
Audacity
GCast
VoiceThread

Audacity – Audio Editing Software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Publishing Your Podcasts - GCast

VoiceThread
A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish.
A VoiceThread allows an entire group's story to be told and collected in one place.
VoiceThreads can be embedded into blogs, wikis, and other web sites.
http://voicethread.com/

VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/

Wikis
Wiki software allows people to easily upload content to the internet, with the important addition that it is then editable by other readers.
One of the most well-known examples is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.

Wikis
The principle behind the operation of wikis is that the knowledge of the group is greater than that of an individual, and that the group who use it are also the group who create it.
In this way, individuals within the group decide when new entries should be created and through collaborative editing of entries an article will emerge that satisfies the needs of the group.

Wikis in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Wikis
Wikispaces
PB Wiki

Wikispaces in Education
Wikispaces is offering its Plus account to teachers for FREE ($50/year value)
The Plus account offers the following:
No advertising
Enhanced privacy features
Increased storage space
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K

Synchronously Edited Web Documents
Another text-based format that is evolving in Web 2.0 is collaborative synchronous web-based creation tools such as collaborative word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software.

Synchronously Edited Web Documents
Productivity Suites
Google Docs
Zoho
Concept and Mind Mapping
Gliffy
Bubble.us
MindMeister
Mindomo

Google Docs
Create, edit and upload quickly Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch.
Access and edit from anywhere All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online.
Share changes in real time Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time
Tour of Google Docs
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html
http://docs.google.com/

Google Docs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Zoho http://www.zoho.com/

Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/

Gliffy
Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software
Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution
Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow
Link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki
Create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram
http://www.gliffy.com/

Bubble.us
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Create colorful mind maps online
Share and work with friends
Embed your mind map in your blog or website
Email and print your mind map
Save your mind map as an image
http://bubbl.us/

MindMeister
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions
Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen
http://www.mindmeister.com/home/about
http://www.mindmeister.com/

Mindomo
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making
Mindomo maps allow users to:
Manage and retain information more efficiently
Communicate information more effectively
Enhance thinking and learning
Recognize trends, clusters, and other patterns in your information
Synthesize separate pieces of information into new knowledge
http://mindomo.com/

Mindomo http://mindomo.com/view?m=57885d9859e13b331edfdfac56e1b859

Social Bookmarking and Tagging
Fundamentally, social bookmarking is a web-based application that allows users to store bookmarked links to URLs in a format accessible via the internet rather than searching bookmarks stored on a specific computer.
It has taken off since the launch in 2003 of one of the early social bookmarking sites, del.icio.us.

The point at which this bookmarking activity becomes social is when tagging is added to the functionality.
This means that when users add a bookmark to their list, they also add a tag (a keyword) to that link.
This means that users can search other people’s bookmarks through tags (keywords) defined by users.

The principle here is that searching by keywords assigned by other members of your community means you are searching in a social context.
Because you are searching sites tagged by people with whom you may share a perspective rather than simply searching text in a web page, you will achieve more relevant results than relying on search engines.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Clipping Tools
Clipping tools are a compliment to tagging tools.
A clipping tool sits on the toolbar of your browser and allows you to either clip the resource you are viewing and add it to your blog and/or add it to your social bookmarks.
Whichever way you choose, clipping tools allow you to add annotation to information that you have found and want to keep a reference to, and then to share this information and your added value-tags and annotation with others.

Social Bookmarking
Diigo
Del.icio.us
Blinklist
Furl

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/

Furl http://www.furl.net/

BlinkList http://www.blinklist.com/

BlinkList http://www.blinklist.com/static/classroom.php

Diigo http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo http://groups.diigo.com/groups/edn

Syndication and Aggregation
Syndication is a means of having an update on changing content from a given web source sent directly to you, rather than you having to go and check this site on a regular basis.
Typical systems for people or organizations wanting to provide these feeds (such as online news agencies in the first instance) include RSS and ATOM ‘feeder software’.
For individuals wanting to receive these updates, they install an ‘aggregator’ to select which feeds to pick up, and to show the headline information. Aggregators can be incorporated in your blog pages.

RSS in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Syndication and Aggregation
Bloglines
Google Reader Labs (iGoogle widget)
Pageflakes
Netvibes
Grazr

Netvibes
Netvibes is a personalized page – you can now modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc.
Your modifications are saved in real-time and you'll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com.
If you want to be able to access your page from any computer, you can sign in (at the top right) with your email and a password.
http://www.netvibes.com/

Netvibes
Netvibes can pull content from:
RSS or web feeds
Podcasts
Calendars
Widget and applications modules
http://www.netvibes.com/

PageFlakes http://www.pageflakes.com

PageFlakes
Pageflakes is your personalized startpage on the Internet. Your address book, local weather information, to-do-list, news, blogs and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere.
Until now you had to go to different web sites to check your email, start Web searches, get weather information and so on. With Pageflakes, everything you need is on one page! You can also use Pageflakes to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds.
"Flake" is our word for those little modules which you can see on the screen.
http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/Help/Faq.aspx

Pagecasting with PageFlakes
“ Pagecasting” means publishing your Pageflakes page for others to see.
You can share your Pagecast with the world or with a private group.
You can even let others edit and contribute to your Pagecast!
It’s very easy - just click the “Share” button on any of your page tabs
http://www.pageflakes.com

Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/

Google Reader Labs https://www.google.com/reader/view/

Grazr
Grazr is a free and easy way to gather and organize information from all over the Web.
Use our drag and drop editor to collect feeds and links to Web pages, and then share them with others on this site, or place them on your own pages with our free widget.
http://www.grazr.com/

Grazr
Embedded Grazr feed reader
http://www.grazr.com/

Affinity and Social Networks
Personal networks are shared contacts systems - databases of contacts, and contacts of contacts.
These are often geared to plain sociability (e.g. Friendster) or for business contacts (Linkedin).
Affinity systems allow people to register their membership of groups – such as old school friends or work colleagues.
Profile matching systems require individuals to enter personal details which are either matched against the profiles of others or searchable by others. This is the typical mechanism for dating websites, but this approach can be mapped onto any need to find people of a particular profile.

Social Networking in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Affinity and Social Networks
Ning
LinkedIn

Ning
As part of Ning's free service, you can create a full social network that you can customize and brand as your own
Ning just announced [] Ad-Free K-12 networks
http://www.ning.com

Ning
Social Networking
invite new members, meet new people, and make new friends
enjoy a full message center with address book importing
set different privacy settings for every photo, video, and blog post
Full Customization
Add your own logo, branding, and visual design
Features
Photo, video, blog sharing
Discussion forums
Embed widgets
Management Dashboard
public or private
moderate photos and videos before they are posted, as desired
delete members, photos, videos, blog posts, chatters, and forum posts, as desired
http://www.ning.com

Ning Network

Requesting Ad-Free Status on Ning
Create your student network, if you don't already have one
Go to http:// help.ning.com/?page_id =27
Use the subject line: "Ad Removal Request for K-12 Education Site"
Put in your network ID at the beginning of the "Describe your issue" box, then just give a one-sentence description of your network usage.
Email [email_address] if your network isn't ad-free within 24 hours Join the Ning in Education community to get help, hint, and tips for using Ning in educational settings
Consider thanking Ning by placing a Ning in Education badge on your front page by following the link on the right side of that network that says " Get a Ning in Education Badge! "

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/

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http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalnatives
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