Digital Age Pedagogies:Deployment and effective use of new
and emerging learning technologies in the Digital Age
Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth
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“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
- Albert Einstein Stev
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“For the first time we are preparing
students for a future we
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Knowledge or wisdom?
http://slated.org
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Digital Natives?
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Net Generation?
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Expectations?
Needs?
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personalised
anyplacehttp://ithalas.com
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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 broadcasting
http://www.mopocket.com/
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Digital literacies
language
personal data
language
Managing identity
nameimages
netiquette
reputation
avatar interaction
privacy
identity
legacy reputation
name
privacy
images
interaction
http://i.dailymail.co.uk
LOL – let’s post this up on Facebook
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Filtering and selecting content
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Trends in Education
Just for me Apprenticeship model
Just in case Standard Curriculum
Just in timeBespoke Curriculum
Just for mePersonalised Learning
Personal Learning Environment
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Personalised Learning?
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Personalised Learning?
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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged and supported
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Personal Learning Environments
PersonalLearning Environment
Personal Learning Network
PersonalWeb Tools
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs
are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &
more formal contexts.
Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to
find it.
PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen
by learners to support their lifelong learning.
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Blogging
http://www.volusion.com/
In the act of writing... ...we are written.
- Daniel Chandler
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Telemachus and Mentor
In Greek mythology Odysseus of Ithaca went to fight in the Trojan War and entrusted the care of his son, Telemachus, to an older and wiser friend, Mentor.
Telemachus and Mentor developed a strong relationship built on the foundations of guidance and support.
The word “mentor” has become synonymous with teacher, counsellor, coach, facilitator, motivator and friend.
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Telematic Mentoring
Geographical Distance
Online reflective diary (shared between
mentor and student)
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Wheeler S and Lambert-Heggs W (2010) Connecting Distance Learners and Their Mentors Using Blogs: The MentorBlog Project. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 10 (4), 323-331.
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MentorBlog Project findings
• Blogs effective for mentoring over a distance• More reflective conversations• Archive: ability to revisit conversations• Blog mentors need to be proactive in
seeking out student posts• Blogs are learning tools in their own right
WikiLit Project
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http://english-115.wikispaces.com
Collaborative writing spaces
http://inperspire.blogspot.com
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How can we get students to work collaboratively?
• Hidden ‘audience’ encouraged greater care in writing:“I have to consentrate more on my spelling, and
grammar so that is makes sense for the person who is reading it.. and I have to read [it] mulitple times before posting it!”
(1st Year female)
What do we know about wikis?
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Wheeler S and Wheeler D (2009) Using wikis to promote quality learning outcomes in teacher training. Learning, Media and Technology. 34 (1), 1-10.
• Use of wikis encouraged more accurate referencing:“...my referencing has improved through using
the wiki, as it had made me realise how important it is to state where you got your information from initially.”
(2nd Year female)
What do we know about wikis?
Wheeler S (2010) Using Wikis in Teacher Education: Student generated content as support in professional learning. In MJW Lee and C McLoughlin (Eds.) Web 2. 0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Press.
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• Use of wikis encouraged greater critical awareness:“… I am now developing a healthy critical and
analytical writing style thanks to the wiki. Looking at other people’s opinions and findings has helped me to question what’s in front of me …”
(2nd Year male)
What do we know about wikis?
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Wheeler S and Wheeler D (2009) Using wikis to promote quality learning outcomes in teacher training. Learning, Media and Technology. 34 (1), 1-10.
Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...
www.canada.com
Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.
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http://www.lifehack.org
Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences
Moblogging
Media Sharing
http://flickr.com/photos/22409393@N03/4348233990/
Video, audio and images ...
... all contribute to the richness of the narrative.
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Video Diaries Project
Microblogging
http://www.xenstudio.co.uk
Retweeting is not repetition. It is amplification.
- Steve Wheeler
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What the students said...
http://jcbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-twitter.html
“All too often today 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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The future?
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Thank you
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