Steve Wheeler
Institute of Education
Plymouth University
Digital Learning Futures
How new & emerging technologies will impact
learning and development
2013
Can we predict the Future...?
http://westernfrontierblog.wordpress.com/
“One day every town in America will have a
telephone!”
- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)
The First Mobile Phone
Photo by Steve Wheeler
“The future is already here — it's just not
very evenly distributed” – William Gibson
http://intergalacticrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/helen-oloy.html
http://www.digitaltrends.com
“It is impossible
to predict the
future with great
accuracy”
– Michio Kaku
http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/
Learning 2000
Villemard
Disruptive Technology
The Future...?
• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’
• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’
• 2010: ‘The future is smart mobile’
• 2013: ‘The future is pervasive tech’
hof.povray.org
“Change is not linear. It’s exponential”
– Ray Kurzweil
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal
The NMC Horizon
Project charts the
landscape of
emerging
technologies for
teaching, learning,
research, creative
inquiry, and
information
management
4 to
5 Years
2 to
3 Years
1 Year
or Less
Great Expectations 2013
• Mobile Learning Apps
• Tablet Computing
• Games based learning
• Learner Analytics
• The Internet of Things
• Gestural computing
Graphics concept by Steve Wheeler
Source: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2012-horizon-report
Time to adoptionEmerging Technology
http://sellyourstoryuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Old-and-Young-Computer.jpg
Students taking notes
Photo: Lori Cullen
http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology
“Nearly all men
can stand
adversity, but if
you want to test a
man's character,
give him an
iPhone.”
- Abraham Lincoln
(on the ‘selfie’)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”
(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)
http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630
“60% of all Internet
pages contain
misleading
information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital literacies’
Learners will need new ‘literacies’
• Social networking
• Privacy maintenance
• Identity management
• Creating content
• Organising content
• Reusing and repurposing
• Filtering and selecting
• Self presention
• Transliteracy
http://www.mopocket.com/
Image source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photography_using_Canon_Digital_IXUS_850_IS.jpg
Transliteracy
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8397808475_d7554a5c62_z.jpg
C
X
Massive
Open
Online
Courses
//bradley.chattablogs.com
“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom
for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.
- Karen Stephenson
Distributed Social Learning
Paragogy
Learning
User
generated
content
Learning by making
Learning
2.0
Tools
Collaborating
Sharing
Voting
Networking
User
generated
content
Architecture of participation
Tagging
We are family
http://pro.corbis.com
Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal
http://www.homodiscens.com
Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligences
http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com
Personalised learning means ensuring
that individual differences are
acknowledged
Personalised Learning
Trends in Learning
Just for me Apprenticeship model
Just in case Standard Curriculum
Just in timeBespoke Curriculum
Just for mePersonalised Learning
Personal Learning Environment
Photo by Steve Wheeler
Games Based Learning
Open Badges?
http://www.skilledup.com/blog/holistic-enhancement-valuing-human-capital/
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2013/06/21/new-open-badges-napkin-sketch/
Personal Learning Networks
Photo by Steve Wheeler
Connection
Context
Complexity
Connotation
Image by Steve Wheeler, adapted from: Mark Federman (2012)
Skills for Learning 2.0
Connection
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
Image source: http://i.imwx.com
Context
Multiple, diverse
Interpretation
Complexity
Preparation
for uncertainty
Photo by Steve Wheeler
Connotation
Making meaning
Photo by Steve Wheeler
Learning and Development 2.0
Mastery
Literacies
Competencies
Skills
Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)
Self organised learning
For successful self organised learning the essential
components are:
• Communication
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• Community
• Creative Tools
• Amplification
Self Organising Learning Spaces
Photo by William Murphy: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3146778883
Photo by Steve Wheeler
Games Based Learning
Ipsative assessment
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
On the
Horizon…
http://abdtechnology.com/tag/google-glass/
Wearable Device
Enhanced Vision
Increased connection
Extended Memory
Augmented
Reality
http://petitinvention.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/snowcorn5.jpg
Mixed
Reality
http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.co.uk/
Marker
Technology
http://www.indiegogo.com
Muse: Mind controlled computing?
Wearable
Sensor
http://vimeo.com/52390320
“Improving your
concentration and
focus, de-stressing,
managing your
thinking – and new
control interface
possibilities”
- Interaxon (2012)
The only way of
discovering the
limits of the
possible is to
venture a little
way past them,
into the
impossible.
Image: http://www.astrobio.net
Learning Futures: How new & emerging technologies will impact learning and development

Learning Futures: How new & emerging technologies will impact learning and development