Web2 Seminar

From Web 2.0 to Education 2.0: Opportunities and challenges for teachers, trainers and information professionals Seminar by the Division of I&TS, Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong

Menu 1. Global perspectives on technology in educational innovation and change around the world by Prof Nancy Law 2. Challenging traditional information structures: wikis & social bookmarking by Dr Sam Chu 3. Mobility for More Flexible Learning: Supporting Education 2.0 by Dr David Kennedy 4. Digital media: design, development and application in education and training by Dr Daniel Churchill 5. Effective Knowledge Management strategies and capacity building at personal and organizational levels: meeting the challenges of the knowledge economy by Mr Trevor Lui 6. Leadership issues and good practices in technology integration in education by Dr Allan Yuen and Dr Bob Fox 7. Presentation by Dr Bob Fox, Program Director, MSc[ITE] & MSc[LIM] LIST OF PRESENTATIONS

Nancy Global perspectives on technology in educational innovation and change around the world by Prof Nancy Law

What is ?

How does it concern you?

What is Education 2.0?

What’s the difference?

Isn’t all this just hype?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

Web 2.0 – is it a much more advanced technology?

Web 2.0 – a term coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2004

What Is Web 2.0

Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software

by Tim O’Reilly 09/30/2005 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

This is primarily an ATTITUDE , not technology:

- user-centric

- software that gets better when more people use it

- ……….

Web 2.0 – a disruptive technology! Google search as an example

So what is Education 2.0? syndication --> stickiness tagging ("folksonomy") --> directories (taxonomy) wikis --> content management systems participation --> publishing web services --> screen scraping cost per click --> page views search engine optimization --> domain name speculation upcoming.org and EVDB --> evite blogging --> personal websites Wikipedia --> Britannica Online Napster --> mp3.com BitTorrent --> Akamai Flickr --> Ofoto Google AdSense --> DoubleClick Web 2.0 Web 1.0

Education 2.0? What would it be like?

transformative/ disruptive

Interactive (cognitive tool)

supportive (e.g. tutor, tool)

Tools – roles

*engage in knowledge building in a learning community

*autonomous

*self-directed

*intrinsically motivated

*conscientious

*studious

*to achieve set goals & standards

Learner – roles networking & teaming to tackle authentic problems social constructivism for deep understanding repetition & practice for mastery Processes

*innovation

*knowledge creation

*higher order thinking

*collaboration

*communication

*content & skills Goals

Education 2.0 – do we see a pathway to get there? Innovative pedagogical practices using technology 2000-2001 An international survey of pedagogical practices and the role of technology in them

Web 2.0 & Education 2.0 – what’s the connection?

What is Education 2.0 to you?

What is the challenge, if any?

Are you ready for it?

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Sam Challenging traditional information structures: wikis & social bookmarking by Dr Sam Chu

What is wiki?

allows groups of people work collaboratively

anywhere, anytime quickly

Wikipedia - contributed by anyone in the world

Traditional information structures

Expert led

E.g., Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica vs Wikipedia

Currency

Size

Accuracy

Giles, J. (2005). Internet encyclopaedias go head to head, Nature , 438(531).

Applying Wikis in teaching and learning

Applying TWiki in a KM course

TWiki – group project template for students

Students’ projects are organized into sections

TWiki – efficient platform for group work

Speed up the group work

Won’t overwrite other members’ works

TWiki – track history of group works

Group E’s project

TWiki keeps all versions of the project

TWiki - Compare 2 versions

Compare 2 versions of the students’ works

TWiki – Who’s most hard working?

TWiki to Wikibook

The whole class compiles an e-book

first in TWiki , then in Wikibook

Social Bookmarking http://del.icio.us/lbsam

store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks

David Mobility for More Flexible Learning: Supporting Education 2.0 by Dr David Kennedy

Plan

How ‘into’ mobiles are Hong Kong people?

What do we mean by mobile access?

Can learning really be mobile?

What functions of mobiles support learning?

What can you do with the devices?

Convergence of mobile and Web 2.0

Experience based upon research

Why mobile?

Portability – light to carry around

Social Interactivity – people can exchange data

Context – people can gather data unique to a particular location, environment or time

Connectivity – people can connect handhelds to data collection devices, other handhelds, and to a common network that creates a true shared environment

Individuality – can provide support that is customized to individual investigations and needs

Source http://www.mlearnopedia.com/

Hong Kong and mobiles

A true gadget love affair

135% mobile penetration rate in HK

A global ‘market testing’ location

http://www.itu.int/WORLD2006/media/kit/feature_stories/china_hong_kong_sar.html With the biggest market and one of the most competitive markets in converged ICTs, China and Hong Kong SAR provide good testing grounds for the use of advanced mobile devices.

Notions of mobility (Zheng & Ni, 2006)

Mobility and learning

Mobility and learning

Spatial

conferences in nice places, home, work, university

Temporal

days, evenings, weekends

Developmental

just-in-time learning, life skills, age, interests or employment

The mobile Internet is growing, with over 34.6 million mobile users in June. That's according to the "U.S. Device Census Report for Q2 2006" from Telephia .

Devices

School students collecting, collating and sharing

Immediacy Collaboration Convenience

With thanks to David Flint, KGV school and Dr Churchill, HKU

Functions (e.g.)

Audio

1.3 mp Camera

Phone / SMS

Keyboard

Office applications

GPS

Bluetooth

IR

SD and Mini SD

WLAN

Audio

Office applications

GPS

Mapking

Bluetooth

IR

SD

WLAN

Applications: Phototate

Student-generated content

Photographs, audio annotation

Sharing of files via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Convergence – Mobility and blogging

Mobile blogging

blog directly from your mobile phone

take a picture, write a little description, and post it to your account on Blogger.com

can be linked to GPS, google maps context location aware blogs

Educational experiences – perceived issues

Slow CPU

No keyboard

Small screens

Memory

Bandwidth

Infrastructure

OS

Battery

NOT A PROBLEM (design) PENS CAN BE BETTER ACCEPTABLE SPEED FLASH MEMORY Windows is everywhere! Careful management GETTING BETTER GETTING BETTER (802.11n)

Educational experiences – perceived issues

Slow CPU

No keyboard

Small screens

Memory

Bandwidth

Infrastructure

OS

Battery

NOT A PROBLEM (design) PENS CAN BE BETTER ACCEPTABLE SPEED FLASH MEMORY Windows is everywhere! Careful management GETTING BETTER GETTING BETTER (802.11n) Back to The List of Presentations

Daniel Digital media: design, development and application in education and training by Dr Daniel Churchill

From Web 2.0 to Education 2.0

Powerful design technologies and learning management tools in hands of teachers and trainers

Support of pedagogies where learners individually and socially create information and knowledge

New opportunities for assessment of learning

Web 2.0: We are the media ( Dan Gillmor )

New forms of expression, new possibilities for learning and assessment…

Blogging, Digital Storytelling, Interactive Visualization, Mashups

Digital Citizens - Be Heard and Seen by all

Users control information

Information grows as more people are using it (tags, ranks, discussions, meta-information)…

YouTube, Flickr, Odeo, SlideShare

Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

WEB 2.0 Are you ready?! WE ARE! MSc (ITE) and MSc(LIM) Courses Back to The List of Presentations

Trevor Effective Knowledge Management strategies and capacity building at personal and organizational levels: meeting the challenges of the knowledge economy by Mr Trevor Lui Back to The List of Presentations

Bob&Allan Leadership issues and good practices in technology integration in education by Dr Allan Yuen and Dr Bob Fox

A Tag Cloud related to Technological Innovations

Google AdSense Flickr BitTorrent Napster Wikipedia blogging upcoming.org and EVDB search engine optimization cost per click web services participation wikis tagging folksonomy syndication standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest JavaScript binding everything together Digital audio Broadband Digital circuits Computer architecture Digital Revolution Digital display connectors Digital electronics Digital movie cameras Digital photography Digital radio Software Digital Subscriber Line Digital television Digital typography Digital video recorders Digital call quality Digital clock Digital Earth reference model Digital identity Digital permanence Digital reproduction Digital divide Center to Bridge Future of Identity in the Information Society Tandem signaling Technical Floating Point RSS TV Wii Mobile network technologies Ad Hoc Networking CDMA GSM Intelligent Networks Mobile Devices Mobile Billing Next Generation Networks Standards TDMA Mobile IT Intelligent Mobile Networks iPhone BT PSP GPS Phone SMS Wireless Weblog

Technology Integration in Education

“ Effective integration of ICT into the educational process has its parallel in systemic educational reform . . . leadership is critical to reform and necessary to assist and sustain the changes required” (Schoeny, 2002).

“ […] With this launch, Hong Kong entered a very exciting period of rapid expansion and development in this area. The challenge involved is not simply a case of technological adoption, but rather a process of innovation , which would require both financial and training support for schools, as well as cooperation between teachers and school leadership to ensure success” (Yuen, Law & Wong, 2003).

Emerging Pedagogical Paradigm S econd International I nformation T echnology in E ducation S tudy (M2) conducted under I nternational Association for the E valuation of Educational A chievement http://sites.cite.hku.hk

How do we compare innovations? Dimensions to understand Pedagogical Innovations

6 dimensions of comparison

Goals

Teacher’s Role

Students’ Role

ICT used

Manifestation of Learning Outcome

Connectedness

New Old New Old Practices Technology

School Level Factors – SITES M2

Innovative classrooms are fabricated by a complex interaction of school contextual factors . In analyzing the cases, we identified five major contextual factors: (1) school background , (2) school strategies , (3) principal leadership , (4) school ICT infrastructure , and (5) government and community support . These contextual factors influenced change at the school level within which innovative pedagogical practices took place in classrooms. These factors help to characterize the nature of innovation schools.

Good Practices in Hong Kong Schools

A R&D project that builds on the Good Practices in Schools (http://goodpractices.cite.hku.hk/)

Provide professional development support for a group of seconded teachers and research assistants on effective uses of ICT for curriculum and pedagogical innovation , leading and supporting pedagogical change in schools and action research

Facilitate the development of a network of mutually supportive schools that are actively engaged in co-construction of action-orientated school-based development initiatives in generating IT-supported learning and teaching practices via the good practices learning platform

Building a Professional Community for Innovation

To develop a multi-level professional development model with an emphasis on “action learning” and “communities of practice” (Brown & Duguid, 1998).

A Framework for ICT in Teacher Education

Four themes

Context and culture

Leadership and vision

Lifelong learning

Management of change

Four competencies

Content and pedagogy

Collaboration and networking

Social issues

Technical issues

(UNESCO, 2002)

Towards a Learning Profession

The successful integration of ICT presents new challenges

Not all educational leaders are fully versed in the use of educational technologies

Educational use of ICT is a continually developing process

Teachers may not be comfortable or skilled in the use of ICT as the students in the class

How do teachers learn to become pioneers, inventors and shapers of new culture rather than the transmitters of the old?

Effective professional development – appropriate matches between learners & experiences as well as theories and practices

A Tag Cloud related to Teacher Development

Information technology and educational leadership Teaching and learning with information technology Methods of research and enquiry Hypermedia and multimedia in education Interactive representations of information and knowledge Multimedia case studies Designing shared virtual environments for learning Digital culture and educational practice Modeling and simulations in education Research in action for the workplace Staff development and school change in the information age Innovative practices in education through information technology adoption e-Learning strategies and management Educational web-publishing Library and information science foundation Collection management Organising information Information retrieval theory and practice Metadata and networked information resources Information behaviour Information policy Knowledge management fundamentals Independent project Knowledge building to support curriculum and assessment innovation Literature for young people in a digital age Digital libraries: principles and applications Leading and managing in the workplace

Bob Are you ready for it? We are Join us in exploring the potential Bob Fox Program Director, MSc[ITE] & MSc[LIM] Division of Information & Technology Studies

Web 2.0 & Education 2.0 – Design & philosophy

MSc[ITE] and MSc[LIM]

Flexible design and philosophy

Modular structure and opportunities to integrate Web 2.0 technologies and academic study with your interests

Web 2.0 & Education 2.0 – Specialisms

MSc[ITE] specialisms:

eLeadership and educational change

e-Learning

learning technology design

library and information studies

MSc[LIM] specialisms :

knowledge management systems

management information systems

Web 2.0 & Education 2.0 – MSc[ITE] Modules

Core Modules

• IT & educational leadership • Teaching and learning with IT• Methods of research & enquiry

Elective Modules

• Hypermedia and multimedia • Interactive representations of information & knowledge • Multimedia case studies • Designing shared virtual environments for learning • Digital culture and educational practice • Modeling and simulations in education • Research in action for the workplace • Innovative practices in education through IT • e-Learning strategies and management • Educational web-publishing

Web 2.0 & Education 2.0 – MSc[LIM] Modules

Core modules

- Library and information science foundation - Information behaviour -Methods of research and enquiry

Electives modules -Educational web-publishing -Collection management -Organising information -Information retrieval theory and practice-Metadata and networked information resources-Information resources and services-Literature for young people in a digital age -Digitals libraries: principles and applications -Records management -User-based systems analysis-Leading and managing in workplace -

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