WE ARE THE WEB:
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
OF THE
Antonio Vantaggiato
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
APAD
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Everything is on-line!

El tiempo pasa... 2000-2008
e-learning model for Sagrado en Línea
Congreso Puertorriqueño de Web e-ducación
Research on Innovación in Education (with J.
Meléndez, A. Castro, J. Sánchez y C. Betancourt)
¡Moodle in Puerto Rico (2004-05)!
Proyect e-learning Manifesto
APAD, President (apad.ac.pr)
netedu.info

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 TRIO
January XXIX

Web 2.0 by
Alec Couros
¿Web 2.0?
Oh my!

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

users
Upload content

users
Upload content

users
Upload content

users
collaborate

We, the users
Are the new Web!

What about copyright?
It must be thought out anew…

ccPR launch
22 February 2008
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)

blogs
(weblogs)

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 Gregory Rawlins
Author of “Slaves of the Machine”

This is Barack Obama
US President-elect

And this is Britney!
…what?

Blogs I “read”
El Caparazón: Dolors Reig

CogDogBlog
Alan Levine

DigiZen
El blogfesor Mario Nuñez

bavatuesdays
Jim Groom

A pleasant reading
With Feedly aggregation

…And what about Education?
Visions of students

Question
IS our
children
learning?
-George W. Bush

…Indeed
Childrens do
learn!
-George W. Bush

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Vision of students
Prof. Michael Wesch, Kansas State U

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
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

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”.

Transparent Technology
Video: Transparent Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OerxRo6lA

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
•

> Key Ideas

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

Web 2.0 is changing everything…

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

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.

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?

Recap: Ideas
Web 2.0: Infrastructure of possibilities

Connections
Dialogue
Interaction
We are the
Web!
Social Construction
Citizen
of Knowledge…
Journalism

Source:
www.internetworldstats.com, 2008
USA 72.5
UE
59.9
Noruega
87.7
Puerto Rico 35
Antigua
Chile 85.9
44.9
Costa Rica 35.7
Argentina
39.3
Brasil 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

Browsers

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

State of the Blogosphere 2008

Feeds
Suscripciones
•
RSS
80

Feed

Feed, aggregation

RSS

Weblogs…
Professor <--> blog
Student <--> blog
Professor <--> Student
Professor <--> Community
Student <--> Students

Blogs
Establish an informal
Forum: Stricter
dialogue
environment:
Casual Discussion discussion usually
held within given
Freedom of Expression
parameters.
Discovery

Blogs’ Benefits (students)
Help understanding
Exploring, filtering, publishing
•
Strengthen motivation & commitment
Strengthen participation
Dialogue within & without the classroom

Bloggin’ in the wind…
Vidadigital.net/blog (Digizen, Mario Nuñez)
One-Trick CyberPony (Bernie Dodge)
Filosofitis (Alejandro Piscitelli)
El Caparazón (Dolors Reig)
Skate of the web (AV)

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.”
It is a very sad thing that
nowadays there is so little
useless information.
-Oscar Wilde
92

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

rss aggregators
RSS: The New Web’s glue!

Class Aggregation
netvibes

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

del.icio.us tags
97

Meta blogs
Technorati
Blogalaxia
PuertoBlogs

Aggregators
Netvibes
PageFlakes

Feed Readers
reader.google.com

Tagging
del.icio.us Tags

del.icio.us
Let’s tag everything!

Tree Model
CUISINE COUNTRIES
RUSSIAN C. RUSSIA
RUSSIAN C.
103

Set Model
CUISINE
TAGS
RUSSIA
RUSSIAN CUISINE
network
104

Terminology
(problem of)
Ambiguity
•
Tool or Tools?
Tools or Herramientas?
Ordenador or Computadora?
105

Folksonomy
Popular Taxonomy…
a social System
106

del.icio.us #1 - user
107

del.icio.us #2 - user/tag
108

del.icio.us #3: tag

del.icio.us #4: more tags

del.icio.us #5: url

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!

del.icio.us examples
http://delicious.com/avunque/tools+slideshow
http://delicious.com/tag/tools+slideshow

Examples for TRIO
http://delicious.com/tag/trio09+retention
http://delicious.com/tag/trio09+edutech

Tags & the Social Web
Flickr
Linkedin
YouTube
Zones for information-sharing, collaboration,
exploration and community.

flickr.com/explore/interesting

wiki
Spaces for multiple
authorship

Google docs &
notebook
Google docs
{collaborate & publish,
wiki-style :-) easier!}
Google notebook

Semantic Web
twine.com

icdelat.ning.com Social Nets

Photoshop *Web 2.0*

Telephony/Internet Convergence

Slideshows… slideshare.net

Applications

Open
Issues

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

I>2 Delivery 2
If knowledge is delivered, then…
… learning happens in a place and is
delivered by an agent
THUS…
Learning happens within the
classroom

I>3 Timing
If knowledge is delivered, in 1-
hour-20-minutes I have got to…
Motivate
•
Awaken
•
Foster Critical Thinking
•
etc…
•

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

III> Identity
Methods from elementary
education get applied to all
levels

IV> Technology’s role
Always there

Educational Technologies
…is the most
important
-J. Freire

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

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

Manifesto 2.0
A manifesto is a public declaration of
principles and intentions (Wikipedia)
Públic Construction
Wiki

Principles
Learning doesn’t happen in a flash.
It is a difficult (social) process.
Reflection, work, Slow Food
Learning doesn’t “happen” in the
classroom and cannot be
delivered.
The Web as a fundamental
educational platform (Suter 2005).

Content
Too much
importance
(is given
to…)
http://flickr.com/photos/cote/3281079/

research
Ecology of media
\"Las herramientas hay que
pensarlas siempre dentro de una
ecología de los medios: están
todas implicadas entre sí.”
-A. Piscitelli

research
Role of computer/nets/social software
\"Computers won't begin to have a real
impact on education until they are seen as
the message rather than the
medium. Computers ought not be a
new means of producing a slide show.”
-R. Schank

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

Apad
http://apad.ac.pr

Open Content
Mario Nuñez / APAD
contenidoabierto.org

Questions?
Antonio Vantaggiato
avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
blogs.netedu.info
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