Create, connect, collaborate…Learning in new dimensions

#pelc12

What new literacies and skills will teachers and learners need?

What will the benefits and limitations be?

Do learners change because of changing demands from society?

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Something Better ChangeSimon Finch ; @simfin

Teaching for learners who will be challenged to be successful in 2025.

Challenges that teachers face: Ever changing technologies, a lot of change in the last decade. Maybe more than ever.

Why no try to make the most of the things (resources) that we´ve got around? And build a network (PLN) to communicate and share best practices.

Kery Facer@kerileef , keri.facer@bristol.ac.uk

We cannot predict the future of Educational Technologies. What is needed is finding the important strong points in the present and use these to develop the future.

We shouldn’t look at what will emerge – we should look at what we have – and try to build on these for the good of learning and learners.

Digital infrastructure that gives teachers and students place for play, wonder and

collaboration.

Open Content & Connected LearningDr. Alec Courous @courosa

If you limit Internet to googling and gossiping, you´re missing the best part of it

Knowledge• what is k?

• how is k acquired?

• how do we know what we know?

• why do we know what we know?

• what do humans know?

• who controls k?

• how is k controlled?

Why Personal Learning Networks

• As learners or teachers, we need to be surrounded by people, “learning with others and from others” facilitated by the tools of PLN.

• Barriers: power issue, sense of control and fear of failure.

Skills• Be critical readers, become discerning readers on the

WEB! (digital literacy)

• Social learning: learn collaboratively (PLN), use collaborative platforms responsively (digital identity).

• Media (text, video, images) literacy: produce one´s Produce stuff for an audience other than the teacher (relevance and authentic audience).

• Be flexible with time a space: a cracking idea can happen not during the class period, and be put up in a blog!

New Literacies

Being adventurous

Creating ideas

Discussing with peers

Question things

Working with others

Being active

Imagining possible solutions

Showing initiative

Taking responsibility

Self-evaluating

Digital Native Myth & Digital Divide

Digital fluency

Where does all this leave us?

• What do we have at hand?

• What would we like to try out?

Social Media SNS

Open Education Content

Personal Learning Networks

Virtual Learning Environments BDSVC

Literacies: from information literacies to digital fluency

Digital identity

Social LearningMaking learning visible and

contribute to the learning of others

Open Education

Simon Finch – videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBMCkoozLg (minutes 5:27 – 7:28)