Learning in a Digital World

Learning in a digital world Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth Plymouth University CILIPS 2012 Conference, Dundee: June 12, 2012http://www.public-domain-image.com

Moving away from books?Do you like books or reading?

“Libraries are a bridge between theinformation-rich and the information- poor” – Ian Clarke

ContentServices Spaces Skills

Societal Shifthttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

BBC News: 14 March 2012Encyclopaedia Britannica ends its famousprint edition – goes digital

Worldwide ownership of mobile phones5.9 Billion mobile accounts = 87% of population ? http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_mob_pho-media-mobile-phones

Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

So Me use >260 Million >90 Million >4 Billion views/day >60 hours/minute Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

Mobile game based learning http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/

“We are becoming distributed beings. Mobile makesthe trend more explicit.” - Mark Curtis (2005)

Connectionhttp://i.imwx.com cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

“Social media is where our students are.” – Klaus Tochtermann Engage with it and you will engage with them.http://www.newcastle.edu.au http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

“..we can drown in our technology.The fog of information can drive out knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin http://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/

Personalisingthe experience http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg

Personalisation means ensuring thatindividual differences are acknowledged

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family! http://wiifitnessdepot.com

Personal Learning Environment Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010) Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

“The average digital birth of childrenhappens at about six months.” http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/

What does this generation think about learning?http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.htmlDigital Residents or Visitors?

BYOD - Personal technologies http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg

Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 charactersr pa in evan, respect 2 u, may urain ear as in evan. giv us rneeds, 4giv r sin as we 4giv rnmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4ur always the most xlent dude.yo

‘Squeeze txt’ and literacy“Mobile phones are forcing learners to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they cannot fully participate in their own culture of communication” Peter Yeomans (2010)

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

Learning is changinghttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011 http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

Digital literacies • Social networking • Transliteracy • Privacy maintenance • Identity management • Creating content • Organising content • Reusing/repurposing content • Filtering and selecting • Self broadcastinghttp://www.mopocket.com/

Skills or Literacies? http://www.flickr.com/photos/afronie/161969948/

Just howreliable is the Internet?

Who can you trust online?http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png

“60% of all Internet pages contain misleading information.” - Thomas EdisonLearners need ‘digital wisdom’

“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone) http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

“Knowledge thatis acquired undercompulsionobtains no holdon the mind.” Plato- Socrates http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

Wikipedia iscrowdsourcing evaluation

Community as curriculum

Twitter as a library Twitter as a street cornerTwitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

“I store my knowledge in my friends is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people”. - Karen Stephenson http://bradley.chattablogs.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Going viral?25 million views 46 million views51 million views 447 million views

www.scoop.it/t/future-schoolDigital Content Curation

MIT’s Sixth Sense Wearable ARhttp://blog.ctnews.com

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"Dinosaurs were highly successful and lasted a long time. They never went away. They became smaller, faster, and more agile, and now we call them birds."www.hopscotch-kids.co.uk ~ Mark Halper

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom This work is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: International Licence.

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