Steve Wheeler Institute of Education Plymouth University

Digital Learning Futures How new & emerging technologies will impact

learning and development

2013

Can we predict the Future...?

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“One day every town in America will have a telephone!”

- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

The First Mobile Phone

Photo by Steve Wheeler

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed” – William Gibson

http://intergalacticrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/helen-oloy.html

http://www.digitaltrends.com

“It is impossible to predict the future with great accuracy” – Michio Kaku

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/

Learning 2000

Villemard

Disruptive Technology

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’

• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’

• 2010: ‘The future is smart mobile’

• 2013: ‘The future is pervasive tech’ hof.povray.org

“Change is not linear. It’s exponential” – Ray Kurzweil

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

Global Social

Personal

The NMC Horizon Project charts the

landscape of emerging

technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative

inquiry, and information

management

4 to 5 Years

2 to 3 Years

1 Year or Less

Great Expectations 2013

• Mobile Learning Apps

• Tablet Computing

• Games based learning

• Learner Analytics

• The Internet of Things

• Gestural computing

Graphics concept by Steve Wheeler

Source: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2012-horizon-report

Time to adoption Emerging Technology

http://sellyourstoryuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Old-and-Young-Computer.jpg

Students taking notes Photo: Lori Cullen

http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him an iPhone.” - Abraham Lincoln (on the ‘selfie’)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

“Lee Harvey and the Wailers” (Lee Harvey did not jam alone)

http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

Learners will need new ‘literacies’

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

http://www.mopocket.com/

Image source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photography_using_Canon_Digital_IXUS_850_IS.jpg

Transliteracy

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

Global Social

Personal

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Massive Open Online Courses

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.

- Karen Stephenson

Distributed Social Learning

Paragogy

Learning

User generated

content

Learning by making

Learning 2.0

Tools Collaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

We are family http://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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

Global Social

Personal

http://www.homodiscens.com

Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligences

http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com

Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

Personalised Learning

Trends in Learning

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standard Curriculum

Just in time Bespoke Curriculum

Just for me Personalised Learning

Personal Learning Environment

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Games Based Learning

Open Badges?

http://www.skilledup.com/blog/holistic-enhancement-valuing-human-capital/

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2013/06/21/new-open-badges-napkin-sketch/

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Connection

Context

Complexity

Connotation

Image by Steve Wheeler, adapted from: Mark Federman (2012)

Skills for Learning 2.0

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Context

Multiple, diverse Interpretation

Complexity

Preparation for uncertainty

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Connotation

Making meaning

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Learning and Development 2.0

Mastery

Literacies

Competencies

Skills

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

Self organised learning

For successful self organised learning the essential components are:

• Communication

• Reflection

• Collaboration

• Community

• Creative Tools

• Amplification

Self Organising Learning Spaces

Photo by William Murphy: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3146778883

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Games Based Learning

Ipsative assessment

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

On the Horizon…

http://abdtechnology.com/tag/google-glass/

Wearable Device

Enhanced Vision

Increased connection

Extended Memory

Augmented Reality

http://petitinvention.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/snowcorn5.jpg

Mixed Reality

http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.co.uk/

Marker Technology

http://www.indiegogo.com

Muse: Mind controlled computing?

Wearable Sensor

http://vimeo.com/52390320

“Improving your concentration and focus, de-stressing, managing your thinking – and new control interface possibilities” - Interaxon (2012)

The only way of discovering the

limits of the possible is to

venture a little way past them,

into the impossible.

Image: http://www.astrobio.net