New Technologies and the Future of Learning

New Technologies and the Future of Learning: Learning is open, social, personal, mobile...
Steve Wheeler
University of Plymouth
Learning Skills Group Conference, Olympia, London: June 14, 2011

Takeaways...
New and emerging learning technologies
Innovative learning
Location independent learning
Alternative modes of assessment and feedback
New roles and responsibilities
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011

“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.
http://thebitchywaiter.blogspot.com/

“Television won’t last.
It’s a flash in
the pan.”
- Mary Somerville, Pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
http://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk

New and emerging technologies...
...are often met with opposition.
http://www.weirdthings.org.uk

“Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on slate which is more expensive. What will they do when they drop the slate and it breaks? They will be unable to write!”
(Anon – 1709)
http://www.objectlessons.org

“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write without getting chalk dust all over them. What will they do when they run out of paper?”
(Anon – 1815)
http://www.nikkikatz.com

A Personal History…
Steve Wheeler c 1965

My first experience of technology was at the Evoluon in Holland in 1970 when I saw one of the first video conference systems.

http://www.gamersmint.com
http://www.techdigest.tv
http://www.spacetoday.org

Revolution!
Are we witnessing a digital revolution?
Or is it a digital evolution?
Will learners need new skills to use new technology?
Can they simply adapt and apply old skills to new contexts?

The pace of change is accelerating
How will we keep up with it?

The future of learning is Open
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42232541@N04/4267059618/

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons

“The concept of the ‘gift economy’ is where the whole culture works on a framework of
mutual giving.”
– Mark Zuckerberg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/4259162368_0f9b2f0a32.jpg

“Scientists build on the work of other scientists without asking or paying for the privilege.”
- Lawrence Lessig

Homeless and wireless
“Given the crises in economics and the environment, and the many challenges we face in modern society, it seems perverse to hoard knowledge in any form”. – Brian Lamb
http://www.frikipix.com

6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Closed Open
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

Characteristics of e-learning
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Closed Open
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consuming Creating
We have the technology to facilitate the
rest, but do we have the will?
!
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

The future of learning is Social
http://photozou.jp/photo/show/1274031/63055983

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

Communication
Online, En masse
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

Collaboration and Creation
‘The wisdom of crowds’
Common interests and purpose

Social media use 2011
>640 Million
>175 Million
95 million tweets/day
>125 Million
>100 Million
>5 Billion images
3000 images/minute
>17 million
articles
2 Billion views/day
24 hours/minute
Source: http://www.browsermedia.co.uk

The future of learning is Personal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg

Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged

“Blogging ... Is the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that we have.”
- Lawrence Lessig
“Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few...”
- Katie Hafner
http://news.oreilly.com

Blogging
In the act
of writing... ...we are written.
- Daniel Chandler
http://www.volusion.com/

We are family
http://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com

Personaltechnologies
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg

Listening culture
Audio feedback for learning
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1259/595625303_d054b5f8a5.jpg

The future of learning is augmented

Augmented Reality
(AR) is when technology recognises what you are doing and then enhances it.
AR apps add information to the world around us.
Source: www.geeks.co.uk

Augmented Reality
images.businessweek.com
1: The phone app
2: The ‘wearable’

Marker technology (‘Magic Symbol’)

The future of learning will merge virtual and real worlds.
http://www.wunschfeld.net

The future of learning is visual
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raylopez/867883420/

http://techncruch.com

Infographics
http://www.elrst.com/wp-content/

The future of learning is mobile
http://learningputty.com

Intuitive handheld devices
Natural gesture interface
Connection to my learning network
Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

Smartphone GPS
Webquest and Foursquare
Geocaching
Taking the classroom back out into the world
http://www.gsa.europa.eu

What will be
the new trainer/ teacher
roles?
http://www.riotraining.co.uk/

How do I find stuff?
How do I know it’s accurate?
How do I filter content?
How do I keep up with all the news?
How do I file content?
How do I categorise content?
Content isn’t King. It’s a Tyrant...
scavenging.files.wordpress.com

What new skills will learners need in the digital age?
http://www.riotraining.co.uk/

What do learners need?
Digital wisdom
cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
e-safety

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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

Learning to learn
Critical thinking
Collaboration
Creativity
Reflection
Evaluation
http://socialenterpriseambassadors.org.uk

“...digital literacy is all about making the technology work for you, finding new and interesting ways in which information technology can enhance life and improve the quality of teaching and learning.”

“The digitally literate teacher will be convinced of the efficacy and usefulness of the connected computer.”

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker
http://pixdaus.com

Thank you
W: http://steve-wheeler.net
E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
B: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
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Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: International Licence.
http://steve-wheeler.net

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