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)

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 .

“ 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.”

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.

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

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

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 )

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)

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

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

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

Geolocation

Alternative Input Devices

GEOTAGGING

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

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)

“ 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…

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

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

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

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!)

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/