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Digital Learning Futures Global - Social - Personal

Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth

Plymouth University, UK

ICEP Conference, Sligo, Ireland: December 6, 2013

Image: http://www.astrobio.net

“Any sufficiently advanced

technology is indistinguishable

from magic”.

- Arthur C. Clarke

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Can we predict the Future...?

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/ “One day every town in America will have a telephone!”

- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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http://www.digitaltrends.com

“It is impossible to predict the future with great accuracy” – Michio Kaku

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/

Communication 2000

Villemard

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/

Learning 2000

Villemard

Disruptive Technology

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed” – William Gibson

http://intergalacticrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/helen-oloy.html

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Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Ubiquitous Connectivity

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http://i.imwx.com

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http://cloudfront-assets.techliberation.com

Social Media use in 2013

Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

3.5 Billion views/day >25 hours/minute

>400 Million

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

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

“The average digital birth of children

happens at about six months.”

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

“The average digital birth of children

happens at about six months.”

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Courtesy of Steve Anderson

Learning is changing

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

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Learning

User generated

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Learning by doing and making

Learning 2.0

Tools Collaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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“If you think of the Web mainly as a place to ‘look up things’, you are

missing the point”. – Alec Couros (2012)

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Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Future Learning Tools

• 1990: ‘The future is multi-media’ • 2000: ‘The future is the Web’ • 2010: ‘The future is smart mobile’ • 20....: ‘The future is personalised’

hof.povray.org

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The NMC Horizon Project charts the

landscape of emerging

technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative

inquiry, and information

management

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4 to 5 Years

2 to 3 Years

1 Year or Less

Great expectations 2013…

• Massive Open Online Courses

• Tablet Computing

• Games and Gamification

• Learner Analytics

• 3D Printing

• Wearable Technologies

• Tangible computing ? Years

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The First Mobile Phone

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http://www.xianet.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/first-mobile-phone.jpg

The ‘Brick’

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Multimedia brought the world into the classroom... Smart cell phones will take the classroom into the world.

www.canada.com

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Web 3.0 Semantic Web

Web 1.0 The Web

Web x.0 Meta Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

Deg

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Co

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Adapted from : Nova Spivak

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Web 3.0 Semantic Web

Web 1.0 The Web

Web x.0 Meta Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

Deg

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of

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Co

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The (Smart) eXtended Web

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We are already seeing early evidence of the Smart eXtended Web

http://chemistscorner.com

Intelligent Filtering Recommender Systems Answer Engines

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Wolfram Alpha

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2012/11/next-generation-learning.html

Learning 3.0 Topology

Distributed (Cloud) Computing

3D Visualisation and Interaction

Smart Mobile Technology

Collaborative Intelligent

Filtering

Infrastructure

Interface

Tool

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Touch or No Touch?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmakice/5193637407/

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http://abdtechnology.com/tag/google-glass/

Wearable Technology

Enhanced Vision

Increased connection

Personal Devices

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http://blog.ctnews.com

MIT’s Sixth Sense

Wearable AR

Mixed Reality

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Web meets World

Mash-up GPS QR codes

Camera

Mobile phone

Bar codes

Browser

Projector

Geomapping Geotagging

Personalised

Ambient

3-D

Video

Navigation

Communication

Haptic

http://www.hearty-india.com/2011/06/pranav-mistry-real-sixth-sense-genius.html

Gestural Computing

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Learner Analytics

http://francescolejones.wordpress.com/category/learning/

Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information

and social connections for predicting and advising people's

learning.

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http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5958585066

Mobile Learning

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

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“Before mobile phones, we were much more social…”

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Flip the roles, not just the classroom

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http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm

We learn by teaching

Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

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http://www.homodiscens.com

Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligences

http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com

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We are family http://pro.corbis.com

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Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

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

- Karen Stephenson

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Distributed Learning

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Learners taking notes Photo: Lori Cullen

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‘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 News John K. Waters—13 December 2011

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

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language

Managing online identity

name images

netiquette reputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal data

identity

legacy

reputation name

privacy

images

interaction

Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

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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’)

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

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

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“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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Not only skills... ...Literacies

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking

• Privacy maintenance

• Identity management

• Creating content

• Organising content

• Reusing and repurposing

• Filtering and selecting

• Self presenting

• Transliteracy

http://www.mopocket.com/

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

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

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“All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” - John W. Gardner

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