Web2.0 and the Future

http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/ WEB 2.0 and THE FUTURE

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =L4CR3GoB3YY A GLOBAL AUDIENCE

eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0 (Stephen Downes)
Elearning 1.0:
static packaged content
little true interactivity and learner input and
very little contact with a tutor.
represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT, Blackboard, etc)
Elearning 2.0:
more student-centred
centred around a Personal Learning Environment using social software.
students generate and share content.
they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the world they can learn from .
(this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald)

“ The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna .

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA/CULTURE SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKING SOCIAL SOFTWARE YouTube Flickr MySpace Facebook Ning, etc

WHAT HAS CHANGED? (the locus of control is shifting)
Decline of the Gatekeepers
Publish then evaluate
Content Creators; Content Rankers
Everyone has access to everything
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
“People just don’t subscribe to magazines anymore; they also subscribe to people.”

Agency has shifted from teacher to learner; from teaching to learning

Networked Learning

CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada)
Principles of Connectivism:
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning .
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

9000 hrs of extra content each day
In 6 months generates as much content as major broadcasters in US did in 60 years
Superb video from Michael Wesch: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
www.youtube.com /watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

Rewriting or Killing our Cultures?

THE CROWD: Collective wisdom? Stupidity of the masses? Is our culture being re-written? Is the Internet killing our Culture? (Andrew Keen: the cult of the amateur)

MySpace/Facebook
September 2 nd , 2008
POLICE are trawling social networking sites and tracking text messages to find the organisers of a wild party shut down by the riot squad in Sydney.
About 1500 people crammed into a Camperdown warehouse in Sydney's inner west for the party which was publicised through Facebook and other online forums.
( http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24273455-5014108,00.html )
September 2 nd , 2008
A wild teenage party promoted on MySpace has been condemned by Geelong police who were pelted with glass bottles when they tried to close it down.
( http:// www.theage.com.au/national/myspace -party-teens-pelt police-with-bottles-20080902-47hg.html )
fear

Indian Initiative: babajob.com/babalife.com NY Times, Oct 30 th , 2007

Are we sociologically ready?
What are our ethical responsibilities
as adults/educators :
to our children/students?
to ourselves? (teacher sacked for
posting photo on MySpace)

Open Content

Creative Commons Licensing from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
Virtual Worlds/Immersive Environments
Cloud-Based Applications
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Geolocation
Alternative Input Devices
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Deep Tagging
Next-Generation Mobile

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
Virtual Worlds/ ImmersiveEnvironments
Cloud-Based Applications

Second Life See Second Life in Education

Google Docs Google Apps Zoho Office Flickr YouTube Blogger etc

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Geolocation
Alternative Input Devices

GEOTAGGING

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Deep Tagging
Next-Generation Mobile

IMPACT FOR VET? Image courtesy of law_keven

Learning in the 21 st Century
“ I have seen predictions that a student doing a 3 year course by 2012 will experience the situation where most of the knowledge they have gained in year one will be completely out of date by the time they finish year 3.”
“… the only sustainable approach…will be to find the learning and teaching strategies which will ensure that people embrace attitudes and behaviours anchored in lifelong learning.”
“ It is becoming …an imperative for industry to have staff who are lifelong learners and highly ICT literate.”
Greg Black, CEO, education.au (Campus Review 16/10/07)

“ The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler) Image courtesy of Nancy White

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Awareness or a Set of Skills?
New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…

Employability Skills
Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Initiative and Enterprise
Planning and Organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology

Where to Begin? (in class)
Give students options about how they receive and process instructional materials
Ask your students how they’d like to be assessed
Have students design tasks and assessments
Set collaborative tasks
Encourage the use of participatory media

Where to Begin? (You)
Join an online community or email list
Ask questions and initiate discussions about your interests and needs
Start publishing or tracking blogs, podcasts
Do an online course in multiliteracy
Create social bookmarking and photosharing accounts
Create media – start simple:
Upload photos to Flickr; comment on others’ photos
create Digital Stories (Photostory, Moviemaker) and upload to YouTube
Search YouTube and other video repositories for educational content and start using it in your teaching
Create a Ning or Facebook account for friends or family
Use a wiki or Google Docs to collaborate on a small project
Place yourself in the new habitus of learning – you need to do it to understand and internalise the power of networks; reading and observing will not achieve this philosophical seachange
Put yourself to the side; know that the best teachers are always willing learners

IN CONCLUSION:
Being a connected educator involves :
engaging with the world of participatory media
guiding students in this new disintermediated world
modelling the use of technology for lifelong learning
allowing time for ‘slow learning’ and reflection
It’s all about connections ……
(and it’s got nothing to do with age!)

Education by and large has not changed. Syllabus/curriculum is still rooted in a past paradigm of fixed knowledge. The world beyond classrooms has changed a great deal, and will continue to do so at an ever-increasing rate…… Photo courtesy of Sawrah, http://flickr.com/photos/sawrah/314474272/

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