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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

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“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

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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

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Connection

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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/

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[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

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http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/

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We learn by teaching

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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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“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]

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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]

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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

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“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