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Digital Learning Futures

Steve WheelerPlymouth University

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Where have we come from?http://photos.jeremybrooks.net/?p=65

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The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’hof.povray.org

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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

>800 Million

>200 Million >150 Million

>260 Million

>14 million articles

>4 Billion images

Source: http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute

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>170 Million

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Timeline Communication Technology Date

11 minutes ago Gutenberg Printing Press 1450

3.4 minutes ago Morse Code 1838

2.7 minutes ago Telephone 1875

2.5 minutes ago Radio 1885

1.6 minutes ago Monochrome Television 1929

54 seconds ago Fax 1966

41 seconds ago Personal Computer 1977

38 seconds ago Analogue Mobile Telephone 1979

25 seconds ago World Wide Web 1990

22 seconds ago SMS Messaging 1993

13 seconds ago Broadband 2000

1 second ago 3-D Television 2010

Source : Ken Robinson (2011) Out of Our Minds

3000 years of time compressed to 24 hours

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Where are we now?http://photos.jeremybrooks.net/?p=65

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Social networks and digital tribes

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User generated content

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Mobile personalised learning

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Ubiquitous connection

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Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Con

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The eXtended Web

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Adapted from the work of Nova Spivack

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/53921113@N02/5668616495/

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The full story of the smart Chihuahua can be found at http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2012/01/thinking-on-your-feet.html

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Creative thinking

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Surface Learning

Deep Learning

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Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

ENGAGEMENT

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Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

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Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Cognition

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

Critical

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruitWisdom is knowing you don’t put it in a fruit saladCritical awareness is knowing why there is a difference

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/city-of-god/4631464948/

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Dual view

TV

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bbc.co.uk/click

bbc.co.uk/click

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Gam

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjorgen/5351521340/

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“When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems in real time ...while being continually assessed ... and often working collaboratively..”

-Graham Brown-MartinHead Teacher Update (Jan 2012)

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Gamification is ‘creating an expectation among people that real-life interactions follow simple mechanics, and some disillusionment when they do not.’ – Elizabeth Corcoran (2010)

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Social media and learning

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Learning

User generated

content

Wisdom of crowds?

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a soapbox 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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Digital Content Curation

www.scoop.it/t/future-school

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Open or closed?

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Touch or No Touch?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmakice/5193637407/

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http://www.csmonitor.com

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Camera

Coloured caps

Coloured caps

Mirror

Projector

Phone blogs.fayobserver.com

MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...

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Web meets World

Mash-upGPSQR codes

CameraMobile phone

Bar codesBrowser

Projector

GeomappingGeotaggingPersonalised

Ambient

3-D

Video

Navigation

Communication

Haptic

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http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyjhicks/1390929514

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyjhicks/1390929514

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyjhicks/1390929514

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyjhicks/1390929514

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

http://www.vassfamily.net

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eMail and SoMe converge?

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‘New’ learners 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 NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

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

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‘New’ learners 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 NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

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

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But they need

much more...

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Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

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“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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language

Managing identity

nameimages

netiquettereputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal dataidentity

legacy

reputationname

privacy

images

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interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

Learners need e-safety

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Skills or Literacies?

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Literacy goes beyond skills. It involves full immersion with the culture

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Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self presenting

http://www.mopocket.com/

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- Socrates Stev

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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Wikipedia is crowdsourcing

evaluation

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Thank you!

W: steve-wheeler.netE: [email protected]: steve-wheeler.blogspot.comT: @timbuckteeth

Picture by Helen Keegan

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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


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