Disruptive Technology in Education

Disruptive Technologies Changing Education Today
By Jen Hegna

Disruptive technologyand disruptive innovation are terms used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not.

Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction.

Web 2.0http://www.go2web20.net
Jen Hegna

Web 2.0

The New Media Literaciesby MIT -
http://newmedialiteracies.org/

Something has changed in the Web during this decade of online history…
At the beginning it was all about being online;
now it’s about socializing and creating the online environment.

So, what is Web 2.0?
Rich Internet Architecture
AJAX (Googlemaps), Flash (TeacherTube)
Service Oriented Applications
RSS, Feeds, Mashups
Social Web Interaction
Blogging, Wiki, Podcast

RSS

RSS VIDEO

RSS
RSS files are used for publishing all types of information on the Internet, but are primarily a tool for sharing web site news.
Real simple syndication
Subscription service
Use with podcasts, news, recurring data
A lightweight XML format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web.

An Example of RSS…

Using Firefox to add new RSS Feeds
Using Thunderbird to add new RSS Feeds

What is a Blog?

More on Blogs…
Find a blog
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
http://technorati.com/
Some Good Blogs to check out!
Scott McLeod - http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
Doug Johnson - http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/
David Warlick - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
Will Richardson - http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
Vicki Davis Blog - http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
Jen Hegna - http://jenhegna.edublogs.com
Set up a blog
http://www.blogger.com
http://blogspot.com
http://edublogs.org/

Educational Benefits of Blogs
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:
Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
Powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47

Micro Blogging

http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter+in+the+Classroom

What is a podcast?
The word “podcast” is a combination of the words “iPod” and “broadcast.”

What is a podcast?
Think of a podcast as a radio show. Each show consists of a series of individual episodes that you can listen to how you want — on your PC, using your MP3 player, or with just a web browser
Note - You DON’T need an iPod or mp3 player to enjoy podcasting

Finding and subscribing to Podcasts
http://www.podcastalley.com/
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
http://librivox.org/
http://www.learnoutloud.com/
http://www.podomatic.com/

iTunes and You! Or the iTunes U!

Wiki
Wiki - website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

Wiki in Plain English Video

Wikis for your Classroom

Tagging & social bookmarking
Tagging - assigning keywords to blogs, wikis, sites

This is a tag cloud - a list of tags where size reflects popularity.
http://del.icio.us/tag/

VIDEO

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Online Learning

Types of Online Learning

Moore’s Law

1947

2008

What happens when
you mix these devices with
ubiquitous Internet access?