SLAV 2012

Putting technology on trial

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45940879@N04/6310404534

P–2

Your ‘expert’

Hamish Curry

hcurry@slv.vic.gov.au

slideshare.net/hcurry

@hamishcurry

Two large stones

P–3

Lessons

Information

Perception

Influence

Vision

P–4

COMPASS of technology integration

Navigation

Skills

ExpertsWherever

BE wise

BE flexible

BE engaged

BE resourceful

Navigation – BE wise

P–5

Systems

Absorption

Expulsion

Propulsion

Ripples

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44992294@N05/4261304925

P–6

Navigation – BE wise – Systems: Osmos

Navigation – BE wise

P–7

Libraries

Information. Inspiration. Ideas

Inspiration service provider

Innovation = risk

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Libraries

Navigation – BE wise

Information

Scarcity - simplicity

Complexity - chaos

Exponential pathways

No end to learning

Information gap

P–9

TASK

Tell the person next to you something you think they don’t know, but need to.

The Fifth Discipline

P–10

“The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance.”

Peter Senge

The Fifth Discipline

The 5

1. Systems thinking

2. Personal mastery

3. Mental models

4. Building shared vision

5. Team learning

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The Fifth Discipline

Insights about experts

Openness to learning more

New ways of thinking

Deeply inquisitive

“Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2610059970

“Sagacity…the intelligentapplication of knowledgeacquired from years of learning

and experience.” Brian Caldwell

P–14

Apophenia

‘Making connections where none previously existed’ - Danah Boyd

Seeing meaningful patterns or connections

Navigation – BE wise

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Weapons of Mass Instruction

P–15

John Taylor Gatto

Production and consumption

“…help kids take an education rather than merely receive schooling.”

“Problems encountered outside school walls are treated as peripheral when in truth they are always central.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45688888@N08/5868477998

P–16

Open-source teaching

Teachers pay teachers

MOOCs

User pays

User wisdom

Navigation – BE wise

P–17

Learning & literacy

Shaping minds

Reflecting curiosity

Critical thinking

Creative thinking

Time

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035553780@N01/5536535796

Skills – BE flexible

P–18

Aust. Curriculum

Intercultural understanding

Ethical behaviour

Social capability

Rethinking failure

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10504927@N08/4252355555

Skills – BE flexible

Skills – BE flexible

P–19

Teachers do not need more tools – you are the carpenters of learning. Build and create.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37921614@N00/3312115991

Skills – Challenges or opportunities?

Skills – BE flexible

Search

amateurs vs. expertsAND

Search knowing it existsAUTHENTICATION

Search knowing if it existsVERIFICATION

100 Time Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars: Online Universities

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4112/4945177655_154b274760.jpg

Skills – BE flexible

P–23

Skills – BE flexible

An expert is

reading

reacting

repeating

reflecting

Experts – BE engaged

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45940879@N04/6101914287

Experts – BE engaged

P–25

Kids as experts?

Relationships

Creativity

Success

Digital natives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45940879@N04/6088362493

Experts – BE engaged

P–26

Networks

Connections

Collectives

Authorship & authorityDECENTRALISED

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28581290@N08/4402678192

P–27

Experts – BE engaged

P–28

Experts – BE engaged

A New Culture of Learning

P–29

John Seely-Brown

The web is a participatory medium

Constantly changed & shaped by participation

Vast resources: motivation & boundaries

Imagination

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23760200@N04/3182820590

P–30

Not just kids

Hanging out

Messing around

Geeking out

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56041749@N02/6400358699

Experts – BE engaged

Wherever – BE resourceful

P–31

Technology on trial

Open-mind

Knowledge

Play

Internet Archive: 1m. torrents

The Internet Map

http://internet-map.net/

Wherever – BE resourceful

P–32

Gamer’s goals

Improve

Diversity

Solve

Fun

Risk

P–33

Replay and refine

Experimental

Reward, recognition

Integrated experiences

Augmented experiences

‘Books aren’t dead. They’ve just gone digital.’

Wherever – BE resourceful

Putting libraries on trial

P–34

“A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted obsolescence. The library became more popular than ever.”

“They come to study. They come to work together. They come to use technology they can’t carry around. They come here to consult with experts, with librarians.”

Mark Lamster, re: NYPL

Orbiting the Giant Hairball

P–35

“…sweet dividends of prudent ingenuity.”

Gordon Mackenzie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12426416@N00/134671943

Putting technology on trial

Relationshift

Technology is the weapon of mass (differentiated) instruction

Mimicry is also inspiration

Expert acknowledges the creativity of the crowd

New evolving from old

Two large stones: find your compass

Goyte – Somebodies – YouTube Orchestra