Learning 2.0 – a Rough Guide

Miles Metcalfe, 2009-07-07

Web 2.0 and why people use it

• What is “web 2.0”?

• An empty marketing term?

• Some key features:

• On-line application

• In a browser

• Social

What’s your Web 2.0?

It’s the social that matters

• “Social” software is part of the business model

• Viral marketing

• “Social” is free on network systems

• “Social” is part of the appeal

• It’s good to talk

We are social animals

Some things you can do

• Stay in touch with friends

• Facebook

• Run a small business

• Google Apps

• Build an online community

• Ning

Some new stuff• Publish yourself

• Wordpress

• Share your thoughts

• Twitter, Posterous

• Share media

• Flickr, YouTube

• Asynchronous radio

• Podcasting

• Instant notifications

• Twitter, Identi.ca

• “Life-streaming”

• Ping.fm, Friendfeed

Learners are doing it

• Friends on Facebook

• Following on Twitter

• Videos on YouTube

• Music where they can find it for free!

Block and ban?

Learners are doing it for themselves?

Our-space, your-space, and the Holy Grail

Learning 2.0

• Digital literacy

• For teachers as well as students

• It’s not just about “cool tools”

• A pedagogy that recognises web 2.0

• And repurposes web 2.0 for education

Tools: the social stack

Personal tools Re-syndicated to the individual, organised to suit own preferences

Group collaboration Interest integrated into knowledge through working together

Personal networks Blogging and commenting: attention becomes interest

Social signals Store, share, tag and classify

Feeds and flows RSS feeds, searches, sites of interest, people of interest

After Headshift

Pedagogy of participation

• Recognising new competencies

• What is plagiarism anyway?

• Negotiating the private and the public

• Participation, contribution, esteem and reputation

Learning spaces

• User-owned technology

• Not computer barns

• Wireless networks?

• Electricity – certainly!

• Flexible spaces

Not everyone has a computer…

• But just about everyone has a phone

• How much do you save if you don’t build computer labs?

• Not everyone wants to go online

The science bit

• “Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World”

• Use of Web 2.0 high and pervasive from 11 to 15 upwards

• New sense of communities of interest and networks

• Information literacies represent deficit area

• Social software for teaching not obvious

Over for the VLE?

Over for classrooms?

Joining the dots

• RSS feeds

• Magic tags

• Life-streaming

• Widgets

• Yahoo! Pipes

Cool tools

Collaborative videoTricky

http://www.kaltura.com/

Social BookmarkingEasy!

http://www.delicious.com/

Social networkSome Effort

http://www.ning.com/

MicrobloggingSome Effort

http://identi.ca/

Instant podcastingTricky

http://audioboo.fm/

Multimedia bloggingEasy!

http://www.posterous.com/

Learners are doing it

Supporting innovation

• Interoperation – RSS, APIs

• Privacy and ownership – Data portability

• Describing stuff – metadata, tagging, magic tags

• Authenticity – authentication, OpenID, profiles

• The policy environment

Risks

• Digital divide

• Digital literacy

• The “right” service provider

• Foundations in the sand

Thanks!