JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Preparing for the impact of
EduTech National Congress !Brisbane, 3 June 2014
Knowledge networks & digital innovation
The internet is a good think. Look what happened in 25 years!
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Are we purposefully chaotic?
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/
Voices of the people
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/
Imagining the Internet
The Web at 25 The overall verdict:
The internet has been a plus for society and an especially good thing for individual users
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/
More content and streams of data – these online environments require a better understanding of what being ‘online’ means!
Is knowing obsolete?
oEvolving needs of learners!oNew knowledge building environments!oFocusing on personalisation!oEvolving spaces for learning!oEvolving learning device technologies!oEvolving pedagogy
Assessment and Teaching of 21C Skills
Framework for essential skills for curriculum programs: !oWays of thinking. Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving,
decision-making and learning oWays of working. Communication and collaboration o Tools for working. Information and communications technology (ICT)
and information literacy o Skills for living in the world. Citizenship, life and career, and personal
and social responsibility (ATC21s 2012).
ATC21s (Assessment and Teaching of 21st C skills – Melbourne University) 250 researchers across 60 institutions worldwide. http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/
Connected, creative, learning ecology
lead innovation
identify talent
revolutionise education
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Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, Foldit turns scientific problems into competitive games.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery .... that Baffled Researchers For Years
Khatib, F., DiMaio, F., Cooper, S., Kazmierczyk, M., Gilski, M., Krzywda, S., Zabranska, H., et al. (2011). Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 18(10), 1175–1177. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2119!
http://www.fabacademy.org/
The Fab Lab Network covers more than 40
countries in more than 200 labs in the world.
Every Fab Lab is a potential classroom for
the Fab Academy.
The Robots and Dinosaurs Hackerspace meets right here in
Sydney and offers a communal space where geeks and artists brainstorm
ideas, play games, work on collaborative projects, and share the
cost of some great tools.http://robodino.org/
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Makerspace or Hackerspace in your school!
Think smarter. Be new. Be creative
information access and sharing
Wonderful world of….
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learning today requires that teachers and school librarians understand reading and information seeking in a connected world....
More content, streams of data, topic structures, (theoretically) better quality - all of these in online environments require an equivalent shift in our capacity to understand information structures.
How does search impact the way students think and the way we
organise information access?
Search is fast without necessarily being safe or intelligent
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YET!
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..... because your knowledge and my knowledge,
based on what search results we are served, may
be very different from each other. Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Googlization of Everything,
Filter bubble!
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How much does Google really
know about us, in practical terms,
and — more importantly —
how much should we care?
One interesting place this comes up is at Netflix — the basic math
behind the Netflix code tends to be
conservative.
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Gather
Seek Follow
Explore
Participatory culture
• Peer critiquing
• User-generated content
• Collective aggregation
• Community formation
• Digital personas
• Digital Citizenship
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Beyond digital citizenship
A definitive guide to verifying digital content
for emergency coverage
The [r]evolution
Digital not print is the future
Lost collection of Andy Warhol art recovered from floppy disks
http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/warhol-art-recovered-amiga-disks/
This is the ‘back-story’ of the digital revolution – digitisation for information storage, retrieval, accessibility, and usage that has changed the face of the digital information ecology in the
current era.
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Doomsday Reloaded
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story
Big Shift
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Connectedness the new black!
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The Web is not the Internet
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
http://vimeo.com/84381995!
Internet of Things (IoT) (sometimes call Web 3.) is an integrated part of
“Future Internet”
https://flic.kr/p/iswbBn
Web 3.0 refers to a third generation of internet-based services that collectively may allow the emergence of the
intelligent semantic web.
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existing data reconnected for other and smarter uses
Web 3.0 really
means…
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The semantic web, or web 3.0, is all about data integration.
it is an infrastructure technology
and an organised approach to metadata
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new functionality that requires web linking, flexible
representation, and external access APIs.
you won’t see a “Web 3.0 inside’ label
Web 3.0
Web 1.0
Web x.0
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The semantic web allows a person or a computer to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set
of databases which are connected, not by wires, but by
being about the same thing.
This is where complexity theory doesn’t quite cut it!
Rather than just identifying keywords and expressions,
the semantic web concentrates on identifying
the meaning of content.
It is about common formats and
metadata which allow for integration and combination of
linked data drawn from diverse sources.
It is also about language, or ontology, for recording how the linked data relates to real world objects, allowing a ‘machine’ to
‘understand’ the semantic meaning of words.
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Google Knowledge Graph
When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage. You’re looking to get answers, understand or explore.
Semantic Search Engines
Semantic Writing
Gapminder fact-based world view
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/ ~ use the teacher tools in your classroom
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.
HOW does this work?
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Whereas traditional library metadata has always been focused on helping humans find and make use of information, linked data ontologies are focused on helping machines find and make use of information.
linkeddata.org schema.org/
This uri ‘http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531’ has now become the globally available, machine and human readable, reliable source for the description for the subject heading of ‘Elephants’ containing links to its related terms (in a way that both machines and humans can navigate).
Information Architecture
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Making it possible to federate, query, browse, gather and recommend information from disparate sources.
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Think of the Web 3.0 environment as the portable, personal web,
focused on the individual, on a life-stream, on consolidating
content, and which is powered by widgets, drag & drop, and
mashups of user engagement.
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This socially powered web is exploding, and is the new
baseline for all our internet and technology empowered
interactions.
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Another feature of our hyper-connected
systems is the democratisation of information
organisation and access.
DATA is the NEW BLACK
This is our context!
Metadata ~ what are the rules of engagement? Schema ~ what about controlled vocabularies? Users ~ what are their access needs Interface ~ how many access points? Data ~ what are the opportunities for user engagement? Media ~ what are the elements of interactivity? Access ~ what can we learn from the semantic web?
.... old questions, new answers
.... what is your discovery interface!
Context aware: • Points on the curriculum • Points on the interest continuum • Capacity to support learning discovery!
Access aware: •Interfaces to support searching and discovery
Search aware: • Natural, predictive, responsive
Results aware: • Multimodal and multi-depository • Relevant, filtered
How do you stack up?
This is our context!
.... your information services reality
Resource Description and Analysis (RDA) as the power tool behind information organisation
• RDA emphasizes the importance of relationships
• RDA adds precision to access points • RDA provides greater internationalisation • RDA builds a display of results that conveys
meaningful information to the user
This is your context!
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shared information!resource description and
access across!connected systems and
organisations
transliteracy skills knowledge networking metadata open access global connections learning community
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At last we have a way to influence everyone!
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…if we draw on expertise for ways of supporting learning in the newly emerging Web 3.0 information ecology
Master of Education (Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation)
http://www.csu.edu.au/digital“An eye opener for me to say the least, I have felt as though I
have been catching up through the entire trek”
Does metadata matter?http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/jerry/does-metadata-matter/
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