Engaging Digital Natives With Web 2.0 Pete&C

Engaging Digital Natives with Web 2.0

Jennifer Carrier Dorman

http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/PETEC2008

Education is changing. Competition is changing internationally. The workplace, jobs, and skill demands are

changing.

The Case for Digital Learning

The Implications

These changes, among others, are ushering us toward a world where knowledge, power, and productive capability will be more dispersed than at any time in our history—a world where value creation will be fast, fluid, and persistently disruptive.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

Digital Natives

Digital Natives

Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games, instantaneous communication, and the Internet.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants – Marc Prensky

The Challenge

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast.

They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text

rather than the opposite.

Learning Profile of Digital Natives


Learning Profile of Digital Natives

They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent

rewards. They prefer games to “serious” work.


Web 2.0

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

"It's made of people. It's not content." – Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine

"The interconnected web." – Andrew Anker, Six Apart

"Web 2.0 is the two-way web where content finds you."– Ron Rasmussen, KnowNow

"People doing things together on the web."– Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation

"Web 2.0 is about platforms that other people can build on."– Rajat Paharia, Bunchball

What does Web 2.0 look like?

Web as a platform– Light-weight web applications; explosion in creativity

User-generated content– Increased accessibility; numerous media formats

Sharing and re-mixing– Culture; creating by assembly and interpretation

Economic and educational value

Participatory Culture

Powerful Learning Environments

Powerful learning environments are usually defined as being environments that seek to develop complex and higher order cognitive skills, deep conceptual understanding and metacognitive skills such as the ability to self-regulate one’s own learning – de Corte 1990

Participatory Culture

According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced.

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

Henry Jenkins

Forms of Participatory Culture

Affiliations — memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media

Expressions — producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups


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Forms of Participatory Culture

Collaborative Problem-solving — working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge

Circulations — Shaping the flow of media


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Benefits

A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including:– opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, – a changed attitude toward intellectual property, – the diversification of cultural expression, – the development of skills valued in the modern

workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.


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Impact on Learning

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.

These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.


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21st Century Literacies


Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving

Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery

Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes


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Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.

Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities


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Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal

Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources


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Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities

Networking — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information


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Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms


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Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0?

Is it possible to draw on the activities emerging through social software to create learning communities which offer young people personalized, collaborative learning experiences such as those that are already emerging in the world outside the school gates?

www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education.htm

Social Software and Learning

Some of the key attributes of social software in relation to education are that it:

– Delivers communication between groups. – Enables communication between many people. – Provides gathering and sharing resources.– Delivers collaborative collecting and indexing of information. – Allows syndication and assists personalization of priorities. – Has new tools for knowledge aggregation and creation of new

knowledge. – Delivers to many platforms as is appropriate to the creator,

recipient and context.


Delivers communication between groups

There are implicit mechanisms that allow interest groups to electronically coalesce – to be aware of what each other are doing and to review each others’ actions and to allow those actions to benefit each other member of a community.


Enables communication between many people

If the authors wish, all their work is available to the rest of the digital world.

Access is available to expert and novice alike and, in fact, social software provides systems whereby experts and novices can work together.


Provides gathering and sharing resources

It provides a means of gathering and making material available. Simple acts like putting holiday snapshots on a searchable photo

site can give others insight into the location, for instance; for other people making available their work in progress can both inform others and prompt critical feedback.


Delivers collaborative collecting and indexing of information

No longer is knowledge limited by historically constructed visions of curricula.

There are new ways of organizing and finding knowledge objects that are of interest to you and the groups with whom you share interests.


Allows syndication and assists personalization of priorities

There are mechanisms to be passively active. You can choose what information streams you want to be kept

informed about and that information will come to you rather than you having to go and seek it.

It will help you both keep abreast with your co-workers’ online activity and those other information streams you actually prioritize.


Has new tools for knowledge aggregation and creation of new knowledge

The massive uptake of MP3 music players is indicative of a move to collecting material from many sources and aggregating it for our personal use.

There are also tools that allow that content to be modified and incorporated in new formulations: the concept of a mash-up.


Delivers to many platforms as is appropriate to the creator, recipient and context

Creators and users of social software tools and content know their lives are not constrained to desktops, they use many media: mobile phones; PDAs; MP3 players and games consoles.

They increasingly expect that the digital part of their life will integrate with them in the context that they are in.


Supporting 21st Century Learning

Categories

RSS Blogs Podcasts Social Bookmarking Wikis Collaborative Synchronous Editing Tools Learning Networks

Harnessing RSS

What is RSS?

Depending on who you talk to, RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication

RSS in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leelefever

Bloglines

Bloglines

Save Time, Read it Your Way – View all your subscriptions by clicking on the My Feeds tab – Modify display preferences in feed Options – View articles by selecting from the links in your Feeds folder – Modify individual subscription options using the Edit feature – Choose a Notifier for Bloglines alerts – View Bloglines on your mobile device – Read Bloglines in your favorite language

http://www.bloglines.com/

Google Reader

Google Reader

Stay up to date – Google Reader constantly checks your favorite

news sites and blogs for new content. Share with your friends

– Use Google Reader's built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family.

Use it anywhere, for free – Google Reader is totally free and works in most

modern browsers, without any software to install.

https://www.google.com/reader/view/

Sharing Feeds with Google Reader

Netvibes

Netvibes

Netvibes is a personalized page – you can now modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc.

Your modifications are saved in real-time and you'll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com.

If you want to be able to access your page from any computer, you can sign in with your email and a password.

http://www.netvibes.com/

Netvibes

NetVibes can pull content from:– RSS or web feeds– Podcasts– Calendars– Widget and applications modules

Pageflakes

http://www.pageflakes.com

Pageflakes

Pageflakes is your personalized start page on the Internet.

Your address book, local weather information, to-do-list, news, blogs and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere.

You can also use Pageflakes to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds.

"Flake" is our word for those little modules which you can see on the screen.

Pagecasting with Pageflakes

“Pagecasting” means publishing your Pageflakes page for others to see.

You can share your Pagecast with the world or with a private group.

You can even let others edit and contribute to your Pagecast!

Pagecasting

Broadcast the URL address and invite others to collaborate to maintain dynamic page content

Helpful hint:– You can shorten your Pagecast URL with the following

applications: http://snipurl.com, http://tinyurl.com/, http://teach42.com/go/

Grazr

Grazr is a free and easy way to gather and organize information from all over the Web.

Use our drag and drop editor to collect feeds and links to Web pages, and then share them with others on this site, or place them on your own pages with our free widget.

http://www.grazr.com/

Creating Widgets with Grazr

Grazr

Embedded Grazr feed reader

Grazr Widget

Reading feeds through embedded Grazr widgets

Blogs

Weblogs are easily updatable personal websites, often used as personal journals.

The social aspect of weblogs can be seen in the ability for readers to comment on postings, to post links to other blogs and, through using pingback or trackback functions, to keep track of other blogs referencing their posts.

– This enables bloggers to know who is referring to and building on what they say in their blogs.

Blog Hosting

Blogmeister – – http://classblogmeister.com/ (school code required)

Edublogs – – http://edublogs.org/

Blogger – – https://www.blogger.com/

21 Classes – – http://21classes.com/ (free service is limited)

http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Blogs

Podcasts

Podcasts

iPod + Broadcast = Podcast– Amateur radio– Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia

files over the Internet using RSS syndication formats for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

Podcasting Resources

Audacity GCast Voicethread

Audacity – Audio Editing Software

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Publishing Your Podcasts - GCast

VoiceThread

A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish.

A VoiceThread allows an entire group's story to be told and collected in one place.

VoiceThreads can be embedded into blogs, wikis, and other web sites.

http://voicethread.com/

VoiceThread

http://voicethread.com/

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking and Tagging

Fundamentally, social bookmarking is a web-based application that allows users to store bookmarked links to URLs in a format accessible via the internet rather than searching bookmarks stored on a specific computer.

Social Bookmarking and Tagging

The point at which this bookmarking activity becomes social is when tagging is added to the functionality.

– This means that when users add a bookmark to their list, they also add a tag (a keyword) to that link.

– This means that users can search other people’s bookmarks through tags (keywords) defined by users.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English


Clipping Tools

Clipping tools are a compliment to tagging tools. A clipping tool sits on the toolbar of your browser and

allows you to either clip the resource you are viewing and add it to your blog and/or add it to your social bookmarks.

Whichever way you choose, clipping tools allow you to add annotation to information that you have found and want to keep a reference to, and then to share this information and your added value-tags and annotation with others.

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

Furl

http://www.furl.net/

BlinkList

http://www.blinklist.com/

BlinkList

http://www.blinklist.com/static/classroom.php

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo

Diigo

http://groups.diigo.com/groups/edn

Wikis

Wiki software allows people to easily upload content to the internet, with the important addition that it is then editable by other readers.

One of the most well-known examples is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.

Wikis

The principle behind the operation of wikis is that the knowledge of the group is greater than that of an individual, and that the group who use it are also the group who create it.

In this way, individuals within the group decide when new entries should be created and through collaborative editing of entries an article will emerge that satisfies the needs of the group.

Wikis in Plain English


Wikis in Education

Wikispaces– http://www.wikispaces.com/ – http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K

PB Wiki– http://pbwiki.com/ – http://pbwiki.com/education.wiki

Collaborative Synchronous Editing Tools

Synchronously Edited Web Documents

Another text-based format that is evolving in Web 2.0 is collaborative synchronous web-based creation tools such as collaborative word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software.

Synchronously Edited Web Documents

Productivity Suites– Google Docs– Zoho

Concept and Mind Mapping– Gliffy– Bubble.us– MindMeister– Mindomo

Google Docs

Create, edit and upload quicklyImport your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch.

Access and edit from anywhereAll you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online.

Share changes in real timeInvite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time

Tour of Google Docs – http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

http://docs.google.com/

Google Docs in Plain English


Zoho

http://www.zoho.com/

Gliffy

http://www.gliffy.com/

Gliffy

Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software

Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow Link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki Create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, UI

wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram

http://www.gliffy.com/

Bubble.us

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. – Create colorful mind maps online – Share and work with friends – Embed your mind map in your blog or website – Email and print your mind map – Save your mind map as an image

http://bubbl.us/

MindMeister

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen

http://www.mindmeister.com/home/about

http://www.mindmeister.com/

Mindomo

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making

Mindomo maps allow users to:– Manage and retain information more efficiently– Communicate information more effectively– Enhance thinking and learning– Recognize trends, clusters, and other patterns in your information– Synthesize separate pieces of information into new knowledge

http://mindomo.com/

Mindomo

http://mindomo.com/view?m=57885d9859e13b331edfdfac56e1b859

Learning Networks

Affinity and Social Networks

Personal networks are shared contacts systems - databases of contacts, and contacts of contacts.

These are often geared to plain sociability (e.g. Friendster) or for business contacts (Linkedin).

Affinity systems allow people to register their membership of groups – such as old school friends or work colleagues.

Profile matching systems require individuals to enter personal details which are either matched against the profiles of others or searchable by others. This is the typical mechanism for dating websites, but this approach can be mapped onto any need to find people of a particular profile.

Social Networking in Plain English


Affinity and Social Networks

Ning LinkedIn

Ning

As part of Ning's free service, you can create a full social network that you can customize and brand as your own

Ning offers Ad-Free K-12 networks

http://www.ning.com

Ning

Social Networking– invite new members, meet new people, and make new friends– enjoy a full message center with address book importing– set different privacy settings for every photo, video, and blog post

Full Customization– Add your own logo, branding, and visual design

Features– Photo, video, blog sharing– Discussion forums– Embed widgets

Management Dashboard– public or private – moderate photos and videos before they are posted, as desired – delete members, photos, videos, blog posts, chatters, and forum posts, as

desired

http://www.ning.com

Ning Network

Requesting Ad-Free Status on Ning

Create your student network, if you don't already have one Go to http://help.ning.com/?page_id=27 Use the subject line: "Ad Removal Request for K-12 Education

Site" Put in your network ID at the beginning of the "Describe your

issue" box, then just give a one-sentence description of your network usage.

Email [email protected] if your network isn't ad-free within 24 hours Join the Ning in Education community to get help, hint, and tips for using Ning in educational settings

Consider thanking Ning by placing a Ning in Education badge on your front page by following the link on the right side of that network that says "Get a Ning in Education Badge!"

LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/

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