Post on 05-Dec-2014
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What is web 2.0
• Vision – Collaborative environment for the creation and dissemination of information
• Bad implementation as ‘Web 1’• Ward Cunningham 1994 – first social software• Web 2.0 is all about
– user generated content– collaboration
via social software
• Platform
textimagessoundvideolocationseventsinterestsrefinements:bookmarkstweets…..
Creating and Sharing Content
createsavefinduse
re-usemix
mash-uprepurpose
sharepublish
COLLABORATE
Web 2.0 is all about
who does what?
Socio-technical systems
Web 2.0 gives rise to new socio-technical systems
where the social and technical are indivisible
learnedway backwith LambdaMoo(1992)
Architecture of participation
use
brings advantage
in discovery
eg now easy to track events in multiple lives
what does this mean for society ?
New affordances and capabilities
Blooms modified hierarchy
What Web 2.0 enables
• Delicious, digg,
technical discussion and gadgetry
socio-political discussion
Matthew Hurst
2007
Learning and teachingLearning and teaching
We know
People work with each other
They learn from each other
They are capable of determining what they want to learn
What are the values that we want to promulgate?
How do we want to affect society?
Do we want autonomous, independent, self-actualised life-long learners who decide what they want to learn and how they learn itIf so, how do we ‘grow’ them
Learner empowerment
want learners
who are enthusiastic about learning
who will take responsibility for their learning, now and life-long
who will play a positive role in society
Ingredients
PLEs? it’s a movement
learners taking control of their own* learning
* group and individual learning
Some class practice
A couple of approaches I like
Social Constructivisim (Vygotsky)
learning in social settings
learning in groups and teams
Zone of Proximal Development / scaffolding
Constructionism (Papert)
learn by constructing artefacts to for public displayaccommodation and assimilation
Facilitated by (Web 2.0) tools
Facilitated by a PLE
currentknowledge
future knowledge with ano’s scaffolding
not reachable as yet
Zone of Proximal Development
ZPD
…applied scaffolding
pagestructure
content suggestions
multi-waysuggestion /feedback
…constructionism
Whole-class project
…communication / participation withGoogle Groups
168 messages68 topicsguess 75% mebut significant effect
feedback from one class member: felt involved in a course for the first time
EBL/PBL/participatory courses
Create independent learners?Learners are generally institutionalisedProduce team-workers?Definitely (but with self-improving groups)
Benefit from Web 2.0 tools / PLE?Yes, leveraging social constructivist and constructionist approachesCreate new socio-technical organisation?Yes, temporarily
Savanna – Futurelab 2005
PLEs: SystemsPersonal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.
This includes providing support for learners toset their own learning goals manage their learning; managing both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.
A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems
TheManchester
PLE
some aspects of web 2.0 support for research)
Only cover two areas
• Finding, filtering and selecting information resources
• Communication between researchers
conclusion
The L&T question
“Is Web 2.0 the point at which we finally begin to challenge academic mindsets around both pedagogy and learning technology?”
We need vast improvements in learning skills and learning culture in order to fully leverage the potential of Web 2.0
But we can still, here and now, move in promising, rewarding and fruitful directions for learning and teaching
The research question
“Is Web 2.0 the point at which can use it in our research activities?”
That depends on the nature of our cultural research niches, where, how and what we do, how we communicate
But we can, here and now, move in promising, rewarding and fruitful directions to augment existing research practice
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