Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

Plymouth University

Digital Pedagogy: Learning 2.0

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“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

- Albert Einstein

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Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

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Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Cognition

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

Critical

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Moving away from books?

Do you like books or reading?

“Libraries are a bridge between the information-rich and the information-poor”

– Ian Clarke

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ContentServicesSpaces

Skills

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Societal Shift

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

BBC News: 14 March 2012

Encyclopaedia Britannica ends its famous print edition – goes digital

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html

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Social Media use in 2012

>1 Billion (100 billion connections)

>500 Million >150 Million

>14 million

articles

>6 Billion imagesSources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

3.5 Billion views/day60 hours/minute

>400 Million

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Mobile game based learning

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/

“We are becoming distributed beings. Mobile makes the trend more explicit.” - Mark Curtis (2005)

Connection

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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“Social media is where our students are.” – Klaus Tochtermann

Engage with it and you will engage with them.

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

http://www.newcastle.edu.au

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Only two things make any significant difference to learning outcomes – constructive feedback and active learning.

(Summary of research by John Hattie)

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“Blogging ... Is the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that

we have.”

- Lawrence Lessig

http://news.oreilly.com

“Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few...”

- Katie Hafner

Flip the roles, not the classroom

http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/

We learn by teaching

Bearpit Pedagogy

http://open.salon.com

“..we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out

knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstinhttp://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/

Content isn’t King. It’s a Tyrant...

• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I share content?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I file content?• How do I categorise content?

scavenging.files.wordpress.com

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Personalising the experience

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg

Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

Personal Learning Environment

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/

“The average digital birth of children

happens at about six months.”

Digital Natives?

The Net

Generation?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

Homo

Zappiens?

What does this generation think about learning?

Power users 14%

Ordinary users 27%

Irregular users 14%

Basic users 45%

Source: Kennedy et al (2010) Beyond Digital Natives and Immigrants: Exploring types of net generation students, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26 (5).

n = 2096, mean age range 17-23 years

http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html

Digital Residents or Visitors?

BYOD - Personal technologies

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Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 characters

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“Mobile phones are forcing learners to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they

cannot fully participate in their own culture of communication”

Peter Yeomans (2010)

‘Squeeze txt’ and literacy

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

Learningis changing

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

But they need

much more...

Digital literacies

• Social networking• Transliteracy• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing/repurposing content• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting

http://www.mopocket.com/

Skills or Literacies?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/afronie/161969948/

Just how reliable is the

Internet?

Who can you trust online?

http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png

“60% of all Internet pages

contain misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)

http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

Darwikianism

Wikipedia is crowdsourcing

evaluation

Community as curriculum

MOOC

Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ … is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting

people.” - Karen Stephenson

Digital Content Curation

www.scoop.it/t/future-school

http://blog.ctnews.com

MIT’s Sixth Sense

Wearable AR

http://petitinvention.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/snowcorn5.jpg

http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.co.uk/

“How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.”

- Kevin Kelly

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Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom