Web 2.0 for networked learning

Web 2.0 for networked learning from collaboration to shared cognition & knowledge networking Matthew Allen, Curtin University of Technology, ALTC Teaching Fellow Poster presented at Networked Learning Conference 2010, Aalborg, Denmark http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk First...Web 2.0 Is the term outdated? Perhaps it is confusing? Does it reflect the spirit of the technology, the people, or their symbiosis? What does it mean? There are many ways to define it, historically or structurally, but what might it mean, judged from the ground up is... A word cloud, generated by http://wordle.net showing the 50 most frequent words in a dataset of 139,000 words used to describe some 3,250 web 2.0 sites, services and applications listed at the directory http://go2web20.net So... Web 2.0 is what we are told it is Web 2.0 is what we make of it

Next... Knowledge Networking Dynamics What can we learn from Web 2.0 apps about the way knowledge networking occurs using such tools in the contemporary web? Grounded theory developed from playing, testing and analysing several hundred Web 2.0 sites and services. This model does not categorise these applications: it identifies the distributed nodes of knowledge work enabled by, and distributed across, the Web; some applications cover all ‘nodalities’; some tend towards one in particular. (Drawn with http://glinkr.net ). So... The web distributes knowledge work (people, places, devices) Distributed knowledge work is networked through the web

More on ... Knowledge Networking Dynamics Pumps ...draw on the reservoirs of information within the web and circulate the information with various degrees of filtering, flavouring, and transformation through many different channels and pipes... http://newsmap.jp – Google News visualised http://swicki.eurekster.com – trainable search • • Engines ...engines work with users to ‘do’ the knowledge work; they are not tools but partners in the cognitive acts whether structured, exploring time and idea, free-form, creative, transformational, reflective... http://xtimeline.com – create timelines http://xtranormal.com – text makes animated movies • • Environments ... loose social networking utilities, detailed groupwork systems, real-time interaction channels, they are spaces, mediated by technologies, within which people can act socially in knowledge work... http://wiggio.com – complete group environment http://tangler.com – persistent chat • • Outlets ... identified places and channels that connect knowledge work with its audiences, generating conversations and interactions, and feeding the reservoirs of information... http://hubpages.com – collected ‘blogging’ http://openzine.com – your collaborative magazine • • So... Cognitive acts occur across input, processing and output Humans and computers and data work together

Examples for learning as knowledge networking http://mind42.com Mind mapping: with collaborative tools (revision history, Skype integration, read/write access control); and a cognitive engine: users to work in partnership with the software and any pre-designed features from the teacher http://debategraph.com Structured and visually organised debates on key topics, with in-built information and an audience; partnerships with all other participants in the debates, and the structures of argumentation http://springnote.com A wiki-style ‘open’ space; but with metaphoric usability, private and shared writing spaces – the openness of wikis imposes its own cognitive structures and the duality of spaces manages collaboration So... Learning is a conversation between people and knowledge Knowledge networking gives computing a voice too

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Web 2.0 for networked learning

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