Our everyday tools for success

26 June 2013

Judy O’Connell

http://eduwebinar.com.au/

c. 1970

Pocket-sized moleskin notebook

Evernote everywhere!

c. 2010

World's last telegram to be sent next month!

Things keep changing!

In information societies, the threshold between online and offline is disappearing.

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Mobile technology and its influences are growing at warp speed.

In 2013 there are almost as many mobile subscriptions as people in the world.

Pew Research December 2012 http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/media-and-technology/social-networking-use/

Technology is almost everywhere!http://youtu.be/dwAuTbx3xKE

Horizon Report 2013Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

•Cloud Computing

•Mobile LearningTime-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

•Learning Analytics

•Open ContentTime-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

•3D Printing

•Virtual and Remote Laboratories

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf

Learning with Mobile millenials

Born in 1995, they do not remember a world without social media.

3 years old – Google changes the way we search the web.

4 years old – Netflix begins digitally delivering movies and TV shows.

6 years old – The iPod hits the market and changes the way the world listened to music.

7 years old – American Idol airs and “live voting” by mobile device becomes mainstream

8 years old – Tom launches Myspace, and social media begins the climb to world domination..

9 years old – The first episode of Lost hits the airwaves. Facebook is born.

10 years old – Youtube adds a whole new element to searching the web.

11 years old – Twitter – and 140 characters – becomes popular.

12 years old – The iPhone took the world by storm. (2008)

.......the rest, as they say, is history

http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google?INTCMP=SRCH

“We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past. Longhand multiplication of numbers using paper and pencil is considered a worthy intellectual achievement. Using a mobile phone to multiply is not.

But to the people who invented it, longhand multiplication was just a convenient technology.”

Sugata Mitra is professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, and the winner of the $1m TED Prize 2013. He devised the Hole in the Wall experiment, where a computer was embedded in a wall in a slum in Delhi for children to use freely.

BIGA information world

We live in a connected world. Nearly two billion people connect to the internet, share information and communicate over blogs, Wikis, social networks and a host of other media.

The question is.....?

How should technology impact the way we learn and the way we work?

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More content, streams of data, topic structures, (theoretically) better quality - all of these in

online environments

require an equivalent shift in our online capabilities.

1. Find the right thing2. Get the best summary3. Go broader and deeper

What should we do...?

LIFESTREAMSToday, our view of cyberspace is shaped by a 20-year-old metaphor in which files are documents, documents are organized into folders, and all are littered around the flatland known as the desktop. Lifestreams takes a completely different approach: instead of organizing by space, it organizes by time. It is a diary rather than a desktop.

Steve G. SteinbergFebruary 1997

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It

David GelernterFebruary 2013

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/

David GelernterFebruary 2013

This LIFESTREAM — a heterogeneous, content-searchable, real-time messaging stream — arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter and other chatstreams, and Facebook walls and timelines.

David GelernterFebruary 2013

Today, the most important function of the internet is to deliver the latest information, to tell us what’s happening right now. Whether tweet or timeline, all are time-ordered streams designed to tell you what’s new.

We must be

We must understandour information and knowledge

environments

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Your information flow might be so last century...

http://judyoconnell.com/2013/06/17/your-information-flow-might-be-so-last-century/

It’s Monday morning, and as I sit down for my morning cup of tea and toast, I open my iPhone to see what’s in my email, and what items in my calendar will need my attention.

In just a couple of minutes of my twitter feed (never mind all the hours I was asleep) I found:

• Founders Online – a new online History resources from the US

• The name of a Dr Who episode I must rewatch• Google’s efforts to build a system to help eradicate Child Porn

on the web• A good post about the new learning organisation• A commentary article from the ABC that asks if Big Data is all

that it’s cracked up to be• A post speculating on MOOCs as slowly deflating bubbles• A little piece of historical memorabilia about to happen – last

telegram in the world• A new Project Tomorrow research report which confirms that

teachers’ unsophisticated use of tech is creating the second level digital divide

Project Tomorrow

Project Tomorrow: Empowering opportunities

http://tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU12-Students.pdf

http://vimeo.com/32674575#

It’s time to have a shared vision around digital tools

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Simply using the latest 1-to-1 device, or the latest website, or the latest app is not the solution either, although these shiny new toys can provide an illusion of advancement

and success.

Delicious tools!cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Clever Cupcakes: http://flickr.com/photos/clevercupcakes/4402962654/

What’s the story with the yellow blotch?

http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html

SearchReSearch bloghttp://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/

Learn about the latest additions to search so as to get the most out of Google.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/

Because Google is

where everyone starts!

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

Google alerts too!

Choose the best search for your information and knowledge needs!

http://www.instagrok.com/

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

Leverage computational thinking

Logical Thinking Algorithmic Thinking Efficient Solutions Scientific ThinkingInnovative Thinking

http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/resources.html

https://duckduckgo.com/

NSA PRISM Spy Program

Learn to work strategically

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Knowledge 2.0

http://bit.ly/knowledge2

Mindful infotention

Learned attention skills and online information tools

“I've become convinced that understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy”. Howard Rheingold

•Highly flexible search and collection strategies

•Collaborative forms of information organization and dissemination

Pinterest

Flickr

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Periodic Table of QR codes

ScoopIt

Diigo

Curating your own Flipboard Magazine

http://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/flipboard/

h"p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/

Modelling exemplary use of

social media, search engines,

and collaborative research strategies.

http://learningfundamentals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Focus-mindmap-for-web.jpg

Our everyday tools for success

Top 100 tools for learninghttp://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

Spartan Guides

http://sdst.libguides.com/index.php

Best Apps for Academics

http://smallwow.com/apps

Look who’s talking on Twitter, Diigo and LinkedIn

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=288178

Personal web tools – used for tracking our life and powering our information organisation.

Relying on the people we connect with through social networks and collaborative tools and environments

Microblogging tools for information sharing - Google+, Twitter

Social bookmarking and tagging - Diigo, Delicious, Pearltrees

Collaborative writing, mindmapping, and presentations - Google docs, Exploratree, Voicethread, Mindmeister

Research Tools - Zotero, Easybib

Information capture and sharing on multiple devices - Evernote, Pinterest, ScoopIt, Livebinders

Open Access and Creative Commons - FlickrCC, Trove,

Collections - Europeana, Trove, the Flickr Commons, FlickrCC

Aggregators and news readers - Feedly, Symbaloo

Online storage and files sharing - Dropbox, SkyDrive

Few Things I like

Working together

http://hojoki.com

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Extreme adventure!

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For example.....

What do you know about FlickrCC Attribution Helper?

How would it help you?

You’ll find the answer, and more good information about

images at....

http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/

For example.....

Where do you hangout online?

You could try .....

ACCE Learning Networkhttp://acceln.wikispaces.com/home

http://www.edtechcrew.net/

Our everyday tools for success are our

professional drivers for understanding the

concepts and practices for learning and teaching in

digital environments.

Search strategiesEvaluation strategiesCritical thinking and problem solvingNetworked conversation & collaborationCloud computing environmentsEthical use and production of informationInformation curation of personal & distributed knowledge.

Topics for discussion

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Judy O’Connell

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