Digital Learning Futures Social, mobile and personal technologies

BETT Middle East, Abu Dhabi: 7 April, 2016

Steve Wheeler Plymouth University

United Kingdom

@timbuckteeth

Te h ology is ot a silver bullet. Simply

applying technology

e ause it s e a d shiny, or because

e eryo e else is doi g it is al ost al ays a istake.

– Steve Wheeler

(2015, p 7)

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http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-

24121114/

“The average digital birth of children

happens at about six

months.”

Learning

is changing

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

3 biggest fears of a teacher

using technology

How do I make

this work?

How do I avoid

looking like an

idiot?

{They will know

more about this

than I do}

3 biggest fears of a student

using technology

I showed my 12 year old son an

old floppy disk….

He said Wo … Cool! You 3D pri ted the “a e I o !

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For the first time we are

preparing

students for a

future we

cannot clearly

des ri e.

- David Warlick

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We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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We learn by making (Papert, 1960) Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Learning

2.0

User

generated

content

Learning by making

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Learning

2.0

Curation Collaborating

Sharing and

Amplifying

Voting

Networking

User

generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging and

Bookmarkin

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Aggregation

http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/

I a o i ed that the best

learning takes

place when the

learner takes

harge.

– Seymour Papert

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Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Crowdsourcing knowledge:

Building your PLN

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I store y k o ledge i y frie ds olle ti g k o ledge… y olle ti g people

- Karen Stephenson

Distributed Cognition

Paragogy Heutagogy

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Mobile learning

Personal Mobile Interactions

http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology

Nearly all e can stand

adversity, but if

you want to test a

man's character,

give him an

iPho e.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Digital Cultural Capital Me ership of the Tri e

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

apital .

Wheeler (2009)

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Bara k O a a s i auguratio spee h 2008

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Student Makerspaces

Data Information

Data Information Knowledge

My

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My PLN

Other

Tools

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Personal Learning

Environments

Graphic by Steve Wheeler

Image source: Sean Drellinger https://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2187892869/

Minecraft

Assessment of Learning?

or…

Assessment for Learning?

Ipsative assessment?

http://www.beehivecity.com

Voice and natural

gesture

interfaces

We

are

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SKILLS Low High

Low

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Anxiety

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Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi, 1991

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SKILLS Low High

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Anxiety

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Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi (1991) and Killi (2009)

P1

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P3

P4

http://thirdmonth.blogspot.co.uk

Computers as

i d tools for

the engaging of

learners in

critical thinking

- David Jonassen

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Ne lear ers are... • more self-directed

• better equipped to capture information

• more reliant on feedback from peers

• more inclined to collaborate

• more oriented toward being their own

nodes of production .

Education Trends | Featured News

John K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

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60% of all Internet pages

contain

misleading

i for atio .

- Thomas Edison

Lear ers eed digital litera ies

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Lear ers ill eed e litera ies

• Social networking

• Privacy maintenance

• Identity management

• Creating content

• Organising content

• Reusing and repurposing

• Filtering and selecting

• Self presention

• Transliteracy

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/6274486386

Learning 2.0 – Digital Literacies

Mastery

Literacies

Competencies

Skills

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

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Connection

Context

Complexity

Connotation

Adapted from: Mark Federman (2012)

Skills for Learning 2.0

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

Don’t limit children to your own learning,

for they were born in

another time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeepachetan/15358787557

With thanks to my students:

Tyla Elworthy

Aaron Fisher

Alex Druce