Web 2.0 in learning and teaching Tom Franklin Franklin Consulting [email_address]

Technology trajectory Mature Well adapted Co-evolution of work and technology New Poorly understood Repeat old ways of working Young Enhance old ways of working Radical Transform work Time NOW

Inside out Are students members of the university? Are staff? What does membership mean? When do they stop being members?

Are students members of the university?

Are staff?

What does membership mean?

When do they stop being members?

Will learning change? Old learning Linear / slow Proprietary knowledge Ideas as strategic advantage Mentors Learn by reverse engineering Progress by "shoulders of giants" Wisdom of experts New learning Exponential, networked, quick Shared knowledge Ideas "paid forward" Micromentors Lessons-learned benefit all Progress by the "mash-pit" Wisdom of crowds Kathy Sierra from http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/understanding-learning-networks

Old learning

Linear / slow

Proprietary knowledge

Ideas as strategic advantage

Mentors

Learn by reverse engineering

Progress by "shoulders of giants"

Wisdom of experts

New learning

Exponential, networked, quick

Shared knowledge

Ideas "paid forward"

Micromentors

Lessons-learned benefit all

Progress by the "mash-pit"

Wisdom of crowds

Will teaching change Old teaching Assessment led Institutional control Authoritative Timetabled Clear distinctions between formal and informal Teacher centred New teaching ? Learner control? Exploratory timetabled Blurring of boundaries Teacher + learners + experts

Old teaching

Assessment led

Institutional control

Authoritative

Timetabled

Clear distinctions between formal and informal

Teacher centred

New teaching

?

Learner control?

Exploratory

timetabled

Blurring of boundaries

Teacher + learners + experts

What might we do differently Across time and courses Share results from field trips between subjects and years Meaningful data Sharing resources between students through course based social bookmarking Collaborative creation of works of art Co-design Critiquing

Across time and courses

Share results from field trips between subjects and years

Meaningful data

Sharing resources between students through course based social bookmarking

Collaborative creation of works of art

Co-design

Critiquing

Will Web 2.0 deliver? Keen presents a dystopian vision in which people endlessly Google themselves and expertise counts for nothing; online communities gather merely to confirm their own prejudices; internet television purports to showcase amateur talent but is dominated by corporate marketing; newspapers are driven to the wall by online advertising and news sites edited at the whimsical click of a mouse; and knowledge of history and literature becomes smothered by an avalanche of blogs from self-obsessed teenagers. From a review of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen, June 2007 http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2068929,00.html