replacing teachers with crowds
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Presentation for TENCompetence Winter School 2009 looking at principles for creating social software to support learning, using collective processes to take on some teacher roles.TRANSCRIPT
Replacing teachers with crowds
TENCompetence Winter School ‘09Jon Dron
Athabasca University, University of Brighton
http://www.cofind.net - [email protected]
loose plan
Intelligent crowds and candy
Groups, Networks and Collectives and play time
Ten principles and more play time
“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape our lives”Winston Churchill
Some influences on learning
tools
environment and context
pedagogies
external drivers
emergent behaviours
learner profile
institutional rules/norms
subject formalisms
community ethos
planned behaviourslogistic
processes
other people
VLEs
Some influences on learning
tools
environment and context
pedagogies
external drivers
emergent behaviours
learner profile
institutional rules/norms
subject formalisms
community ethos
Contexts of useTechnologies
planned behaviourslogistic
processes
other people
VLEs
Web 2.0, proper noun
The name given to the social and technical sophistication and maturity that mark the- Oh, screw it. Money! Money money money! Money! The money’s back! Ha ha! Money!
From The Devil’s Dictionary (2.0)
http://www.eod.com/devil/archive/web_20.html
Intelligent Crowds
Once upon a time...
There is a new organising principle...
There is a new organising principle...
There is a new organising principle...
There is a new organising principle...
Groups, Networks and Collectives
Once upon a time...
teacher
learner content
(after Terry Anderson)
There is a new view of learning
teacher
learner contentmany
What kind of Many?
group
network collective
me
What kind of Many?
group
network collective
me
New view of learning
Learner control
Teacher control
Negotiated control
structuredialogueautonomy
New view of learning
Learner control
Teacher control
Negotiated control
structuredialogueautonomy
Collective control
What is a collective?
crowd behaviour
algorithm
interface
feeds
drives
influencesor controls
play time!
• think of/visit social sites you know
• identify collective processes
• algorithm
• interface
Ten Design Principles
1. Adaptability2. Stigmergy3. Evolvability4. Parcellation5. Trust
6. Sociability7. Constraint8. Context9. Connectivity10. Scale
Adaptability
• build from small parts and mash-up
• rapid development methodologies
• use standards like OpenSocial, RSS, FOAF, OpenID, OAuth, JSON etc....
• Control with individuals, not teachers/administrators/programmers
A bit of my Personal Learning Environment
A bit of my Personal Learning Environment Mashup
Stigmergy
Stigmergy
• It will happen - use it
• Signposts, not fence-posts
Evolvability
• Deferred design
• Different scales
• Exaptions
• Replication with variation
• Death as a great teacher
Many other processes
e.g.
• city dynamics
• market-based systems
1. Dwellings...
2. Mixture of primary uses
3. Short blocks
4. Mixture of old and new
5. Dense concentration of people
Site MarketLimited attention
Attention means size and reputation
Parcellation
Photo by Kerry Lannert:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stirwise/2675405956/
evolvability
flickr tags over 2 years apart
evolvability
flickr tags over 2 years apart
parcellation
play time!
• how can we put texture in our learning landscapes?
the problem of evil
trust and privacy
Trust
• Soft security vs hard security
• Systems security
• Controllable security
• Who’s who?
• How does it work?
Sociability
• Awareness of others
• Multiple channels
• Not necessarily in the same piece of software
Pedagogy
• Meaningful signposts
• If you design a mountain you will get mountain goats
• If you design an ocean you will get fish
• What is the shape and physics of an educational environment?
Context
• A truly self-organised environment can evolve into anything
• Institutional contexts
• The broader environment
• People wishing to learn
Meta-principles
• Connectivity
• Scale• connectivity
Big and small things
Things that change context
Things that come first
Cool tools but...
del.icio.us is cool but...
• single dimension of metadata
• limited interoperability
• commercial monolith
• limited parcellation
• very limited trust model
del.icio.us is cool but...
• single dimension of metadata
• limited interoperability
• commercial monolith
• limited parcellation
• very limited trust model
Facebook is cool but...
• single layer of hierarchy (the group)
• extendible but not very interoperable
• simple one-dimensional metadata
• limited trust model
• everyone is a friend or not
• commercial monolith
Ning is brilliant but...
• not distributed - single site
• relatively coarse privacy/trust control
Elgg is a bit better...
• richer trust model
• educational context
• institutional control (?)
• why does everyone have to be your friend?
Using them all...
• NetVibes
• Sniperoo
• Grazr
• iGoogle
• Widgets and Gadgets
Read the book...
Control and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing
When to Choose
http://www.cofind.net
Read the book...
Control and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing
When to Choose
http://www.cofind.net
http://www.cofind.net http://www.igi-pub.com/books/details.asp?ID=6732