Our everydaytools for success20 June
2013Distance Education Symposium,NSW Department of Educationand CommunitiesJudy O’Connell

c. 1970

Worlds last telegram to be sent next month!

Mobile technology and its influencesare
growing at warp speed.In 2013 there are almost as many mobilesubscriptions as people in the world.

Pocket-sized moleskin notebookEvernote everywhere!c. 2010

Pew Research December 2012http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/media-and-technology/social-networking-use/

Technology is almost everywhere!http://youtu.be/dwAuTbx3xKE

Horizon Report 2013Time-to-Adoption Horizon: OneYear
or Less•Cloud Computing•Mobile LearningTime-to-Adoption Horizon:Two to ThreeYears•Learning Analytics•Open ContentTime-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to FiveYears•3D Printing•Virtual and Remote Laboratorieshttp://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf

Learning with Mobile millenialsBorn in
1995, they do not remember a world without social media.3 years old – Google changes the way we search the web.4 years old – Netflix begins digitally delivering movies and TV shows.6 years old – The iPod hits the market and changes the way the world listened tomusic.7 years old – American Idol airs and “live voting” by mobile device becomesmainstream8 years old – Tom launches Myspace, and social media begins the climb to worlddomination..9 years old – The first episode of Lost hits the airwaves. Facebook is born.10 years old – Youtube adds a whole new element to searching the web.11 years old – Twitter – and 140 characters – becomes popular.12 years old – The iPhone took the world by storm. (2008).......the rest, as they say, is history

http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google?INTCMP=SRCH“We have a romantic attachment
to skills from thepast. Longhand multiplication of numbers using paperand pencil is considered a worthy intellectualachievement. Using a mobile phone to multiply is not.But to the people who invented it, longhandmultiplication was just a convenient technology.”Sugata Mitra is professor of educational technology atNewcastle University, and the winner of the $1m TEDPrize 2013. He devised the Hole in the Wall experiment,where a computer was embedded in a wall in a slum inDelhi for children to use freely.

BIGA information world

BIGA time to get organised

We live in a connectedworld.
Nearly twobillion people connectto the internet, shareinformation andcommunicate overblogs, Wikis, socialnetworks and a host ofother media.

Anything imaginable iscapable of beingconnected
to thenetwork, becomeintelligent offeringalmost endlesspossibilities.

The question is.....?

How should technology impact the
waywe learn and the way we work?cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by fatboyke (Luc): http://flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2984569992/

More content, streams of data,topic
structures, (theoretically)better quality - all of these inonline environmentsrequire an equivalent shift in ouronline capabilities.

1. Find the right thing2.
Get the best summary3. Go broader and deeperWhat should we do...?

LIFESTREAMSToday, our view of cyberspace
is shaped by a 20-year-oldmetaphor in which files are documents, documents areorganized into folders, and all are littered around theflatland known as the desktop. Lifestreams takes acompletely different approach: instead of organizing byspace, it organizes by time. It is a diary rather than adesktop.Steve G. SteinbergFebruary 1997http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

The End of the Web,
Search, andComputer as We Know ItDavid GelernterFebruary 2013http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/

David GelernterFebruary 2013This LIFESTREAM —
a heterogeneous,content-searchable, real-time messagingstream — arrived in the form of blog postsand RSS feeds,Twitter and otherchatstreams, and Facebook walls andtimelines.

David GelernterFebruary 2013Today, the most
important function of theinternet is to deliver the latest information,to tell us what’s happening right now.Whether tweet or timeline, all are time-ordered streams designed to tell you what’snew.

The answer is....?

We must be

We must understandour informationand knowledgeenvironments

cc licensed ( BY )
flickr photo by Louise Docker: http://flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/316350537/Yourinformationflow mightbe so lastcentury...http://judyoconnell.com/2013/06/17/your-information-flow-might-be-so-last-century/

It’s Mondaymorning, and as I
sitdown for mymorning cup of teaand toast, I open myiPhone to see what’sin my email, andwhat items in mycalendar will needmy attention.

In just a couple of
minutes of my twitter feed (never mind all thehours I was asleep) I found:• Founders Online – a new online History resources from theUS• The name of a Dr Who episode I must rewatch• Google’s efforts to build a system to help eradicate Child Pornon the web• A good post about the new learning organisation• A commentary article from the ABC that asks if Big Data is allthat it’s cracked up to be• A post speculating on MOOCs as slowly deflating bubbles• A little piece of historical memorabilia about to happen – lasttelegram in the world• A new ProjectTomorrow research report which confirms thatteachers’ unsophisticated use of tech is creating the secondlevel digital divide

Project TomorrowProjectTomorrow: Empowering opportunitieshttp://tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU12-Students.pdf

http://vimeo.com/32674575#

It’s time to have a
shared visionaround digital toolscc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Adelle & Justin: http://flickr.com/photos/h_is_for_home/3494382794/

Simply using the latest 1-to-1device,
or the latest website, or thelatest app is not the solution either,although these shiny new toys canprovide an illusion of advancementand success.

Delicious tools!cc licensed ( BY
) flickr photo by Clever Cupcakes: http://flickr.com/photos/clevercupcakes/4402962654/

What’s the story withthe yellow
blotch?http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.htmlSearchReSearch bloghttp://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/

Learn about the latestadditions to
search so as toget the most out of Google.http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/BecauseGoogle iswhereeveryone starts!

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.htmlGoogle alerts too!

http://www.instagrok.com/

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online
computationalknowledge engine that generates answers toquestions in real time by doing computations on itsown vast internal knowledge base.http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

https://duckduckgo.com/NSA PRISM Spy Program

Choose the bestsearch for yourinformation
andknowledge needs!

Leverage computationalthinkingLogical ThinkingAlgorithmic ThinkingEfficient SolutionsScientific
ThinkingInnovative Thinkinghttp://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/resources.html

Learn to work strategicallycc licensed
( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by ecstaticist: http://flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/395737939/Knowledge 2.0http://bit.ly/knowledge2

Mindful infotentionLearned attentionskills and onlineinformation
tools“Ive become convinced that understanding how networks work isan essential 21st century literacy”. Howard Rheingold

•Highly flexible searchand collectionstrategies•Collaborative forms
ofinformationorganization anddissemination

Pinterest

Flickr

http://www.periodicvideos.com/Periodic Table of QR codes

ScoopIt

Diigo

Curating your own Flipboard Magazinehttp://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/flipboard/

h"p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/Modellingexemplary use ofsocial media,search engines,and
collaborativeresearch strategies.

http://learningfundamentals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Focus-mindmap-for-web.jpg

Our everydaytools for success

Top 100 tools for learninghttp://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

Spartan Guideshttp://sdst.libguides.com/index.php

Best Apps for Academicshttp://smallwow.com/apps

Look who’s talking onTwitter,Diigo and
LinkedInhttp://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=288178

Personal webtools – used fortracking
our lifeand powering ourinformationorganisation.

Relying on thepeople weconnect withthrough
socialnetworks andcollaborative toolsand environments

Microblogging tools for information sharing
- Google+,TwitterSocial bookmarking and tagging - Diigo, Delicious, PearltreesCollaborative writing, mindmapping, and presentations -Google docs, Exploratree,Voicethread, MindmeisterResearchTools - Zotero, EasybibInformation capture and sharing on multiple devices -Evernote, Pinterest, ScoopIt, LivebindersOpen Access and Creative Commons - FlickrCC,Trove,Collections - Europeana,Trove, the Flickr Commons, FlickrCCAggregators and news readers - Feedly, SymbalooOnline storage and files sharing - Dropbox, SkyDriveFew Things I like

Working togetherhttp://hojoki.com

cc licensed ( BY NC
SA ) flickr photo byVicki & Chuck Rogers: http://flickr.com/photos/two-wrongs/24935477/

Extreme adventure!cc licensed ( BY
) flickr photo by Theresa Thompson: http://flickr.com/photos/theresasthompson/7163227255/

For example.....What do you know
aboutFlickrCC Attribution Helper?How would it help you?

You’ll find the answer, andmore
good information aboutimages at....http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/

For example.....Where do you hangout
online?

You could try .....ACCE Learning
Networkhttp://acceln.wikispaces.com/homehttp://www.edtechcrew.net/

Our everyday tools forsuccess are
ourprofessional drivers forunderstanding theconcepts and practices forlearning and teaching indigital environments.

Search strategiesEvaluation strategiesCritical thinking and
problem solvingNetworked conversation & collaborationCloud computing environmentsEthical use and production of informationInformation curation of personal &distributed knowledge.Topics for discussion

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