JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Preparing for the impact of
EduTech National Congress !
Brisbane, 3 June 2014

Knowledge networks & digital innovation

The internet is a good think.
Look what happened in 25 years!
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Are we purposefully chaotic?

http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/

Voices of the people
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/
Imagining the Internet

The Web at 25
The overall verdict:
The internet has been a plus for society and
an especially good thing for individual users
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/

More content and streams of data –
these online environments require
a better understanding of what
being ‘online’ means!
Is knowing obsolete?

oEvolving needs of learners!
oNew knowledge building environments!
oFocusing on personalisation!
oEvolving spaces for learning!
oEvolving learning device technologies!
oEvolving pedagogy

Assessment and Teaching of 21C
Skills
Framework for essential skills for curriculum programs:
!
o Ways of thinking. Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving,
decision-making and learning
o Ways of working. Communication and collaboration
o Tools for working. Information and communications technology (ICT)
and information literacy
o Skills for living in the world. Citizenship, life and career, and personal
and social responsibility (ATC21s 2012).
ATC21s (Assessment and Teaching of 21st C skills – Melbourne University) 250 researchers across 60 institutions
worldwide. http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/

Connected, creative, learning
ecology
lead innovation
identify talent
revolutionise education
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Developed by
researchers at the
University of
Washington,
Folditturns
scientific problems
into competitive
games.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery
.... that Baffled Researchers For Years
Khatib, F., DiMaio, F., Cooper, S., Kazmierczyk, M., Gilski, M., Krzywda, S., Zabranska, H., et
al. (2011). Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game
players. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 18(10), 1175–1177. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2119!

http://www.fabacademy.org/
The Fab Lab Network
covers more than 40
countries in more than
200 labs in the world.
Every Fab Lab is a
potential classroom for
the Fab Academy.

untethered,
empowered learning
http://youtu.be/RIiBclgR1rU

The Robots and Dinosaurs
Hackerspace meets right here in
Sydney and offers a communal space
where geeks and artists brainstorm
ideas, play games, work on
collaborative projects, and share the
cost of some great tools.
http://robodino.org/

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Makerspace or Hackerspace in
your school!
Think smarter. Be new.
Be creative

information access
and sharing
Wonderful world of….
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learning today requires that teachers
and school librarians understand
reading and information seeking in a
connected world....

More content, streams of data,
topic structures, (theoretically)
better quality - all of these in
online environments
require an equivalent shift in our
capacity to understand
information structures.

How does search impact the way
students think and the way we
organise information access?

Search is fast without necessarily being
safe or intelligent
!
YET!
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!
..... because your knowledge and my knowledge,
based on what search results we are served, may
be very different from each other.
Siva
Vaidhyanathan
in
The
Googlization
of
Everything,
Filter bubble!
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How much does
Google really
know about us, in
practical terms,
and — more
importantly —
how much should
we care?
One interesting
place this comes
up is at Netflix —
the basic math
behind the Netflix
code tends to be
conservative.

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Gather
Seek Follow
Explore

put video
http://youtu.be/b8CZmB4qLvY!

Participatory culture
• Peer critiquing
• User-generated content
• Collective aggregation
• Community formation
• Digital personas
• Digital Citizenship
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Beyond digital
citizenship
A definitive guide to
verifying digital content
for emergency
coverage

The [r]evolution
Digital not print is the future

Lost collection of Andy Warhol art
recovered from floppy disks
http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/warhol-art-recovered-amiga-disks/

This is the ‘back-story’ of the digital revolution
– digitisation for information storage, retrieval,
accessibility, and usage that has changed the
face of the digital information ecology in the
current era.
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Doomsday Reloaded
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story

Big Shift
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Connectedness the new black!

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The Web is not the Internet

számítógép
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer)
http://vimeo.com/84381995!

Internet of Things (IoT)
(sometimes call Web 3.)
is an integrated part of
“Future Internet”
https://flic.kr/p/iswbBn

Web 3.0 refers to a third generation of internet-based
services that collectively may allow the emergence of the
intelligent semantic web.
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existing data reconnected for other and
smarter uses
Web 3.0
really
means…
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The semantic web, or web 3.0,
is all about data integration.
it is an infrastructure
technology
and an organised approach
to metadata
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new functionality that requires
web linking, flexible
representation, and external
access APIs.
you won’t see a “Web 3.0 inside’
label

Web 3.0
Web 1.0
Web x.0
Web 2.0
Semantic Web
The Web
Meta Web
Social Web
Degree of Social Connectivity
DegreeofInformationConnectivity
cc""Steve"Wheeler,"University"of"Plymouth,"2010"
Semantic Web
of knowledge
Semantic Web
of intelligence
Web of
information
Web of people &
social information
DegreeofInformationConnectivity

The semantic web allows a
person or a computer to start
off in one database, and then
move through an unending set
of databases which are
connected, not by wires, but by
being about the same thing.
This is where complexity theory doesn’t quite cut it!

Rather than just identifying
keywords and expressions,
the semantic web
concentrates on identifying
the meaning of content.

It is about common formats and
metadata which allow for
integration and combination of
linked data drawn from
diverse sources.

It is also about language, or
ontology, for recording how the
linked data relates to real world
objects, allowing a ‘machine’ to
‘understand’ the semantic
meaning of words.

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Google Knowledge Graph
When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage.
You’re looking to get answers, understand or explore.

http://www.google.com/publicdata
Google Public Data Explorer

http://www.google.org/flutrends/au/#AU
Google Flu Trends

Semantic Search Engines

Semantic Writing

Gapminder fact-based world view
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/
~ use the teacher tools in your classroom

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Europeana enables people to explore the
digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries,
archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains
metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.

HOW does this work?

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Whereas traditional library
metadata has always been focused
on helping humans find and make use of
information, linked data ontologies
are focused on helping machines find and
make use of information.
linkeddata.org schema.org/

This uri ‘http://id.loc.gov/
authorities/sh85042531’
has now become the
globally available,
machine and human
readable, reliable source
for the description for the
subject heading of
‘Elephants’ containing
links to its related terms
(in a way that both
machines and humans
can navigate).

Information
Architecture

!
Making it possible to federate,
query, browse, gather and
recommend information from
disparate sources.

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Think of the Web 3.0 environment as the portable, personal web,
focused on the individual, on a life-stream, on consolidating
content, and which is powered by widgets, drag & drop, and
mashups of user engagement.
!
This socially powered web is exploding, and is the new
baseline for all our internet and technology empowered
interactions.

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Another feature of our
hyper-connected
systems is the
democratisation of information
organisation and access.
DATA is the NEW BLACK

This is our context!
Metadata ~ what are the rules of engagement?
Schema ~ what about controlled vocabularies?
Users ~ what are their access needs
Interface ~ how many access points?
Data ~ what are the opportunities for user engagement?
Media ~ what are the elements of interactivity?
Access ~ what can we learn from the semantic web?
.... old questions, new answers

.... what is your discovery interface
!
Context aware:
• Points on the curriculum
• Points on the interest continuum
• Capacity to support learning discovery!
Access aware:
•Interfaces to support searching and discovery
Search aware:
• Natural, predictive, responsive
Results aware:
• Multimodal and multi-depository
• Relevant, filtered
How do you
stack up?
This is our context!

.... your information services reality
Resource Description and Analysis (RDA) as the
power tool behind information organisation
• RDA emphasizes the importance of
relationships
• RDA adds precision to access points
• RDA provides greater internationalisation
• RDA builds a display of results that conveys
meaningful information to the user
This is your context!

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shared information!
resource description and
access across!
connected systems and
organisations

transliteracy skills
knowledge networking
metadata
open access
global connections
learning community
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At last we have a way to
influence everyone!
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…if we draw on expertise for ways of
supporting learning in the newly
emerging Web 3.0 information ecology

Master of Education
(Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation)
http://www.csu.edu.au/digital
“An eye opener for me to say the least, I have felt as though I
have been catching up through the entire trek”

Does metadata matter?
http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/jerry/does-metadata-matter/

http://youtu.be/bAOWpdQeyBQ
Here’s to HUMANITY

heyjudeonline
Judy O’Connell
http://judyoconnell.com
Judy O’Connell