A small group discussion as part of the ongoing Webheads Learning2gether series.. Accompanying audio at http://learning2gether.posterous.com/learning2gether-with-michael-coghlan-designin

1. #DLDA
Learning2gether
23/12/12

4. GLOBAL TRENDS
(NMC sponsored retreat on
The Future of Education)
• Work is increasingly Global and • Ownership (copyright) and privacy
Collaborative
• Access, and Scale are redefining
• People learn anywhere, anytime what we mean by quality
(BYOD – bring your own device) and success (MOOCS)
• Notion of literacy is being
• Mobile redefined (multi- or transliteracy)
• Openness — content, resources, • Rise of Informal Learning
courses, research, attitudes
• New Business Models
• The CLOUD

5. Employability Skills (VET sector)
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

6. Graduate Attributes (Higher Ed)
• Creativity
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Leadership
• Collaboration
• Information Literate
• Initiative
• Problem solving

7. 21st Century Skills
http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/

8. 21st Century Skills
• Decentralized decision-making, information
sharing, teamwork and innovation are key in
today’s enterprises
• Whether a technician or a professional person,
success lies in being able to communicate, share,
and use information to solve complex problems,
in being able to adapt and innovate in response
to new demands and changing circumstances, in
being able to marshal and expand the power of
technology to create new knowledge and expand
human capacity and productivity.

9. Compare:
21st C Skills Employability Skills (Aust
Industry)
• Decentralized decision-making • Communication
• information sharing
• teamwork • Teamwork
• Innovation • Problem Solving
• Communicate
• use information to solve complex • Initiative and Enterprise
problems • Planning and Organising
• adapt and innovate in response to
new demands and changing • Self-management
circumstances
• marshal and expand the power of • Learning
technology • Technology
• create new knowledge
• expand human capacity

10. Indicate which of the items below you use in your role as an educator

11. I would contend that the abundance of content and
connections is as fundamental shift in education as
any we are likely to encounter, and there has, to
date, been little attempt to really place this at the
centre of a model of teaching. (Martin Weller –
referring to A Pedagogy of Abundance)

12. PEERAGOGY = PARAGOGY
Stems from a philosophy of abundance (Tim Longhurst)
- of content and connections

13. SUBSCRIBING TO PEOPLE
• “People don’t subscribe to
magazines anymore. They
subscribe to people” (15 yr old)
• Subscribe:
– RSS feeds (websites, blogs, podcasts)
– Following people (Twitter)
– Friending people (Facebook)

14. FILTERING AND CURATION
• Clay Shirky: "It's not information overload. It's
filter failure.”
http://boingboing.net/2010/01/31/clay-shirky-on-infor.html

15. DIGITAL CURATION
• Curate via feeds,
follows, friends, OR
• Scoopit!, then
• Bookmark (Delicious,
Diigo)

16. NETWORKED LEARNING
• Enormously successful
model for professional
development
• BUT, does it translate to
the ‘normal’ teaching
context?
• “...there has, to date,
been little attempt to
really place this at the
centre of a model of
teaching.” (Weller)

17. NETWORKED LEARNING
• Assumes everyone in the network takes on
role of educator and student
• Everyone curates and shares content
• Collaborative
– Shared activities
– Co-creation/curation of content
– Peer review/assessment

18. NETWORKED LEARNING IS
IMPORTANT:
• Fosters an essential
component of digital
literacy
• it is becoming a lifelong
learning skill
Courtesy of Ruth Geer

19. NETWORKED LEARNING IS HARD!
• Requires advanced Internet skills
• You need to manage multiple accounts
• You have to work out who to follow!
• Involves sharing and being open with and
about what you know (against the
culture/values of many)

20. DOUBTS/SUSPICION
• Information generated
and curated from
networks is not from
recognised
authority/experts
• Not officially sanctioned
ie it isn’t in a textbook
• It’s INFORMAL

21. POSITIVE NEGATIVE
• Current • Tendency to want to know
• Digital literacy/lifelong everything
learning • The information flow never
• You have a gang (network) stops
to help you navigate, curate, • Can be distracting.
and create content (Multitasking is inefficient.)
• You’re never alone! • Information often comes in
byte-sized grabs > lack of
discourse of any substance
• Everything you do is tracked
and monitored (and
probably sold to a third
party for some commercial
advantage.)
So you need to be smart AND disciplined >>>>>

22. http://rheingold.com/netsmart/

23. michaelc@chariot.net.au