the new education ecology
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: Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will discuss the Project’s most recent findings about Americans use the internet and their mobile devices to learn, share, and create information. He will discuss how the changed media environment is affecting learners’ expectations about the availability of information and the ways in which learning takes place. In this new environment, the traditional boundaries between home and school, teacher and pupil, public and private are breaking down and that is affecting the way learning occurs. Lee will describe how Pew Internet has looked at these subjects and the ways in which schools and families are responding to them.TRANSCRIPT
PewInternet.org
The new education ecology
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project11.9.11 – Sloan ConsortiumOrlandoEmail: [email protected]: @Lrainie
Anti-executive summary
• Which textbook company stocks to buy or dump? (Who’ll do the e-books thing best?)
• Are students’ attention spans shorter now?• Are students more narcissistic and more
indifferent to privacy?• “Bye, Bye Birdie” questions ????
(Or… Questions I cannot answer)
Broadband facilitates networked information
Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing
Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations
New kinds of learners emerge
Digital Revolution 1Internet (95% teens/78% adults)
Broadband at home (82% teens/62% adults)
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, April 26-May 22, 2011 Tracking Survey. N=2,277 adults 18 and older, including 755 reached via cell phone.
Networked creators among internet users• 65% are social networking site users• 55% share photos• 37% contribute rankings and ratings• 33% create content tags • 30% share personal creations • 26% post comments on sites and blogs• 15% have personal website• 15% are content remixers • 14% are bloggers• 13% use Twitter• 6% location services – 9% allow location awareness
from social media – 23% mapping services
Broadband facilitates networked information
Links and multimedia
Self-paced learning
Analytics
Pervasivemedia
Digital Revolution 2Social networking – 50% of all adults
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, April 26-May 22, 2011 Tracking Survey. N=2,277 adults 18 and older, including 755 reached via cell phone.
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, October 20-November 28, 2010 Social Networking survey.
Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing
Elevates DIY learning in soc.nets
Increases the role of social networks in learning
Facilitates rise of amateur experts
Changes character of soc.nets
Digital Revolution 3Mobile – 77% of teens
327.6Total U.S. population:315.5 million
35% of adults own “smartphones”
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, April 26-May 22, 2011 Tracking Survey. N=2,277 adults 18 and older, including 755 reached via cell phone.
Digital devices Millennials
(18-34)Gen X
(35-46)
Younger Boomers
(47-56)
Older Boomers
(57-65)
Silent Generation
(66-74)
G.I. Generation
(75+)
All adults (18+)
Cell phone 94% 92% 86% 80% 69% 1% 84%Laptop computer 71% 67% 56% 46% 34% 16% 57%Desktop computer 52% 64% 62% 55% 49% 33% 55%iPod or MP3 player 69% 57% 36% 24% 10% 5% 44%Game console 63% 63% 38% 19% 8% 3% 42%e-book reader 12% 14% 14% 12% 6% 5% 12%Tablet, like iPad 14% 15% 8% 4% 3% 3% 11%
Mobile internet connectors – 63% adults
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, April 26-May 22, 2011 Tracking Survey. N=2,277 adults 18 and older, including 755 reached via cell phone.
Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations
New access points to knowledge (AAA)
Real-time sharing, just-in-time searching
Augmented reality
Pervasive, perpetual awareness of soc.nets
Attention zones morph
In the midst of all this, what’s
happening with online learning?
Good newsPresidents Predict the Future of Online Learning% saying more than half of their undergraduate students have taken/will be taking an online class
Not-so-good newsPublic Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom
In general, do you think a course taken only online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)
College presidents weigh inPresidents’ Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom
Generally speaking, do you believe a course taken online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)
New kinds of learners emerge
More self-directedBetter arrayed to capture new info
More reliant on feedback and response
More inclined to collaboration
More oriented towards being nodes of production
What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
New: Learning as a process
Knowledge is objective and
certain
Old: Learning as transaction
Knowledge is subjective and
provisional
New: Learning as a process
Learners receive knowledge
Old: Learning as transaction
Learners create knowledge
What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
New: Learning as a process
Knowledge is organized in stable, hierarchical
structures that can be treated
independently of one another
Old: Learning as transaction
Knowledge is organized “ecologically”-disciplines are integrative and
interactive
What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
New: Learning as a process
Our “intelligence” is based on our
individual abilities
Old: Learning as transaction
Our “intelligence” is based on our
learning communities
What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
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The future of universities?Agree or disagree? In 2020, higher education will not be much different from the way it is today. While people will be accessing more resources in classrooms through the use of large screens, teleconferencing, and personal wireless smart devices, most universities will mostly require in-person, on-campus attendance of students most of the time at courses featuring traditional lectures. Most universities’ assessment of learning and their requirements for graduation will be about the same as they are now.
…. or big change is coming?Agree or disagree? By 2020, higher education will be quite different from the way it is today. There will be mass adoption of teleconferencing and distance learning to leverage expert resources. Significant numbers of learning activities will move to individualized, just-in-time learning approaches. There will be a transition to “hybrid” classes that combine online learning components with less-frequent on-campus, in-person class meetings. Most universities’ assessment of learning will take into account more individually-oriented outcomes and capacities that are relevant to subject mastery. Requirements for graduation will be significantly shifted to customized outcomes.
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