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Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth
Plymouth University, UK
E-Learning Conference, Tallinn, Estonia: April 12, 2012
Learning in a digital age: The myth and the reality
“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” - David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/
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Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet
So Me use
>260 Million
Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com
2 Billion views/day 24 hours/minute
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>90 Million
Connection
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http://i.imwx.com
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“..we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out
knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
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http://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/
[The next big thing - Flipped Classrooms]
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/116382
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http://schipul.com/photos/3659/in/122/
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Flip the roles, not the classroom
http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/
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We learn by teaching
Bearpit Pedagogy
http://open.salon.com
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[Learning styles]
“There are as many learning styles as there are people.” – Wheeler (2009)
http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com
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VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing
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Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
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...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
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Situated learning
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper Learning
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http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/
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“This field suffers from serious conceptual confusion and a lack of accumulated theoretical knowledge.” – Frank Coffield
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[Learning in large organisations cannot be personalised]
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg
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Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are
acknowledged
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We are family http://pro.corbis.com
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Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
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Personal Learning Environment
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)
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http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/
“The average digital birth of children
happens at about six months.”
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[There are digital natives]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/
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http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html
Digital Residents or Visitors
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http://learningputty.com
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[Mobile Phones should be banned]
http://i.dailymail.co.uk
...they are distracting and disruptive. The phone becomes
the focus of attention, inappropriate images/videos can
be taken and sent, leading to invasion of privacy and loss of
teacher control!
Mobile phones are banned in most schools because...
Objections from Educators
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http://i125.photobucket.com
A cultural digital divide?
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Language is organic
www.socialedge.org
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“The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong....There’s a new kind of ethos now.” ~ David Crystal
Evolution of Language
http://www.utsa.edu
“The arrival of [new technologies] all pulled language in new directions. But texting is different” ~ David Crystal
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BYOD - Personal technologies
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg
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Digital cultural capital
“Where digital
communication has fractured the tyranny of distance and computers
have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation
has become the new cultural capital”.
- Wheeler (2009)
http://www.coreideas.com.au/
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“Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they
cannot fully participate in their own culture of communication”
Peter Yeomans (2010)
Squeeze txt and literacy
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[Technology is Neutral]
http://www.oldukphotos.com
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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
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Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/
Intuitive handheld devices
Natural gesture interface
Connection to my learning network St
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Learning is changing
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
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[Wikipedia is untrustworthy]
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Who can you trust online?
http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png
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http://www.themodernman.com
“60% of all Internet pages contain
misleading information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital wisdom’
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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” - Socrates Plato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
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Wikipedia is crowdsourcing
evaluation
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Community as curriculum
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[Twitter is all about breakfast]
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Twitter as a library Twitter as a street corner
Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification
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What my students said about Twitter...
http://jcbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-twitter.html
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“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
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg
http://www.newcastle.edu.au
The future?
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:
International Licence.
Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom