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It’s Personal:
Learning
Spaces, Learning
Webs
Steve Wheeler
University of Plymouth
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2009
http://www.dailyhaha.com

Personalisation of learning means ensuring
that individual differences are
acknowledged

Personalised Learning?
http://www.delasallewaterford.com

Personalised Learning?
http://www.hseb.utah.edu

A system that helps learners take control of and
manage their own learning. This includes providing
support for learners to
Personal Learning Environment
manage their
learning
set their own
learning goals
communicate
with others
User Generated Content

Personal Learning Environments
Personal
Learning
Environment
Personal
Learning
Network
Personal
Web Tools
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
PLEs are not only personal
web tools and personal
learning networks. PLEs
are much wider than
this, taking in experiences
and realia, as well as
learning through
TV, music, paper based
materials, radio & more
formal contexts.
Learning content is not as
important now as where
(or who) to connect to, to
find it.
PWTs are any web
tools, (usually Web 2.0)
chosen by learners to
support their lifelong
learning.
SteveWheeler,PlymouthUniversity,2011

PLE as a counterpoint to the
VLE
http://open.salon.com

The VLE
“Institutions that
useVLEs are in
danger of turning
the Web back
into a funnel”
(Wheeler, 2009)
http://www.chemistryland.com

Making connections
In connectivism, learning involves
creating connections and developing
a network. It is a theory for the digital
age drawing upon chaos, emergent
properties, and self organised
learning.
(It’s not what you know but who you
know)
Source: Wikipedia
http://www.pestproducts.com

Education
Educere (latin) = to draw out what is within
= to bring out potential
Image source: http://laescueladeateanas.files.wordpress.com
Socratic discourse is
based on asking and
answering questions
to stimulate critical
thinking and illuminate
ideas.

“Education is what remains after one
has forgotten everything he learned in
school” – Albert Einstein
http://gradeproud.com

Transformation…
• …to change people or things
completely, especially improving their
appearance or usefulness
• …to convert one form of energy to
another

Does education need transformation?
Source: Chambers English Dictionary
"In large states
public education
will always be
mediocre, for the
same reason that in
large kitchens the
cooking is usually
bad."
- Nietzsche
http://thescholasticdiary.wordpress.com

Young people’s out-
of-school experiences
with technology can
mean that students
find the presentation
of school curriculum
less challenging, less
relevant and less
engaging.
Source: http://community.learningobjects.com
http://encefalus.com/

“The wish to preserve the past rather than
the hope of creating the future dominates
the minds of those who control the teaching
of the young" - Bertrand Russell
http://flickr.com/photos/shu1/6065783/
SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2011
Does education need reform?

Half of teens send 50 or
more text messages a
day, or 1,500 texts a
month, and one in three
send more than 100 texts a
day, or more than 3,000
texts a month. (2009
statistics)
Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
http://blog.roadandtravel.com

http://i.dailymail.co.uk
Objections from educators
...they are distracting and
disruptive. The phone becomes
the focus of attention,
inappropriate images/videos can
be taken and sent, leading to
invasion of privacy and loss of
teacher control!
Mobile phones are banned in
most schools because...

Half of teens send 50 or
more text messages a
day, or 1,500 texts a
month, and one in three
send more than 100 texts a
day, or more than 3,000
texts a month. (2009
statistics)
Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
http://blog.roadandtravel.com
Mobile phones are the
natural communication
tool of choice for younger
users.
Are we preparing this
generation for the future
or for the past?

“For the first time
we are preparing
students for a future
we cannot clearly
describe.”
– David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/
It certainly needs inspiration...

What are the needs of today’s
learners?

What does
the ‘Net
Generation’
expect?
http://socialenterpriseambassadors.org.uk

They expect life to be easier to
get everything they want in
their finger point, to have the
access of information easy, to
avoid the long lines at the
library, to have everything at
one point for everything to be
organised.

The death of books
The new generation want to use technology, reading from laptops or
tablets

The education should meet the needs of the learners and the community

Personal Web Tools
n = 56 Teachers
Microblogging 46 Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr
Blogging 26 Wordpress, Blogger
Collaborative writing 12 Wikispaces, Etherpad, Google Docs, PB
Task Management tool 10 RTM, Ubiquity, Evernote
Search engine 13 Google, Yahoo
Social network 12 Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning
Social tagging/bookmark 24 Delicious, Diigo, Xmarks, Stumbleupon
Social presence 14 Skype, Adobe Connect
Image/Video sharing 12 Flickr, Picassa, YouTube
E-mail 16 Gmail, other e-mail web services
E-Portfolio 2 Mahara
Other organisational tool 3 Dropbox, Coda, Zotero
Aggregators (incl. RSS) 7 Feedly, Friendfeed, Netvibes, iGoogle

http://aproposofnothing.files.wordpress.com
Introducing
technology
into
education

Introducing
computers into
schools
“Any sufficiently
advanced
technology is
indistinguishable
from magic”

Learners will need new ‘literacies’
• Social networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
• Self presenting
http://www.mopocket.com/

anytime
personalised
anyplace
http://ithalas.com

Why social media?

Social media use 2011
>200Million
95 million tweets/day
2 Billion views/day
24 hours/minute
Source: http://www.browsermedia.co.uk

There are 5
billion mobile
phone
connections. 3
times as many
mobile phones
as computers on
the planet.
Source: BBC News 2010
Data consumed in
2010 for mobiles
2.8 exabytes
Data consumed in
2009 1.1 exabytes
The global context...
Social media use
is on the rise with
over 750 million
users on
Facebook and 24
hours of video
uploaded every
minute on
Youtube.

http://www.uksmallbusinesswebsites.co.uk
With access to Social Media
everyone has a voice

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu
Networked learning
“Understanding how
networks work is one of
the most important
literacies of the 21st
Century.”
- Howard Rheingold

Social Networks...
Redefine
community, friendship, identit
y, presence, privacy, geograph
y, power relationships
Enable
learning, connections, collabo
ration, sharing, exploration
Networks form around shared
interests, ideas and objects
Adapted from Couros, A. (2010)
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://strategicdc.com

EXAPMLES OF
SOCIAL
NETWORKS AND
HOW THEY ARE
USED TO IMPROVE
LEARNING

What will be the new
teacher roles?

“Any teacher
who can be
replaced by a
computer....
.... should be”.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Content curation
Collaboration
Facilitation
Inspiration!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2760560588/
Co-learning
Learning support

Top 5 teacher web tools (n=56)
46
26
24
16
14
13
12 12 12
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Microblog Blog Social tagging E-mail Social presence Search engine Social network Collaborative
writing
Image sharing

Digital Content Curation
www.scoop.it/t/future-school

“We need to trust
the innate ability
of learners to self
assess.”
- Derek Robertson
E-Assessment Scotland, 2010

Multimedia brought
the world into the
classroom...
www.canada.com
Smart technologies
will take the
classroom out into
the world.

Here’s a problem
for teachers:
“For the first time
we are preparing
students for a
future we cannot
clearly describe.”
- David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

Formal and Informal learning
Formal Learning Informal Learning
20%
80%
Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.
Shouldn’t we now start to blend formal
and informal learning?

Modes of learning
InformalFormal
Collaborative
Reflective
E-portfolios
Essay writing
Group work
Co-operative learning
Social networking
Wiki
Blogging
Microblogging

“It's not what you
know that counts
anymore. It's what
you can learn.”
– Don Tapscott
http://www.nationalpost.com
Connections to
your community
of practice

Learners enjoy learning when it’s
engaging and fun!

Engaging and fun!

Since we cannot experience everything, other
people’s experiences, and hence other
people, become the surrogate for knowledge.
http://bradley.chattablogs.com
‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an
axiom for collecting knowledge through
collecting people. - Karen Stephenson

Web 1.0: Anything
can link to anything
Source: Sabin-Corneliu Buraga www.localseoguide.com

Web 3.0:
Existing data
re-connected
for other
(smarter) uses
Adapted from : Sabin-Corneliu Buraga http://farm4.static.flickr.com

Camera
Coloured caps
Coloured caps
Mirror
Projector
Phone blogs.fayobserver.com
MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...

The goal of education
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students
while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and
lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient,
and active citizens of the world. Education is about
teaching students, not subjects.”
– Dave Truss

“All too often today
we are giving
young people cut
flowers when we
should be teaching
them to grow their
own plants.”
- John W Gardner
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg
http://www.newcastle.edu.au
The future?

We are already seeing early evidence
of the Smart eXtended Web
http://chemistscorner.com
Intelligent Filtering
Recommender systems

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