Digital Learning Futures: 3 things about future learning

Steve WheelerInstitute of EducationPlymouth University

Digital Learning Futures3 things you should know about the

future of learning

Can we predict the Future...?

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

- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

1: The future is unpredictable

“For the first time we are preparing

learners for a future we

cannot clearly describe.”

- David Warlick

http://www.digitaltrends.com

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

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’

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ity, 2

The Future...?

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

ity, 2

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html

The First Mobile Phone

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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

Learning 2000

Villemard

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

Learning 2000

Villemard

Disruptive Technology

Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially.

Larry Downes

Law of Disruption

4 to 5 Years

2 to 3 Years

1 Year or Less

Great Expectations 2014

• Flipped Classroom• Learner Analytics• 3D Printing• Games and Gamification• The Quantified Self• Virtual Assistants

Graphics concept by Steve WheelerSource: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2014-horizon-report

Time to adoptionEmerging Technology

Ubiquitous connection

http://i.imwx.com

ity, 2

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

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

2: The future can be found in the past

Facsimile machine (1843)

Tablet computer first seen in movie 2001 (1968)

(from: Nicky Hockley)

Curiosity

Technology next

Pedagogy first

Students taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen

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

Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Learning by making

Learning 2.0

CurationCollaborating

Sharing and Amplifying

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging and Bookmarking

Aggregation

The stuff of motivation…

Adapted from: Maslow, A. H. (1954) Motivation and personality. New York, NY: Harper.

Transcendence

Biological and Physiological needs

Safety needs

Esteem needs

Belonging and Love needs

Cognitive needs

Aesthetic needs

Self Ac

Adapted from: Maslow, A. H. (1954) Motivation and personality. New York, NY: Harper.

Being Needs

Deficiency Needs

Purpose

Autonomy Mastery

Adapted from: Pink, D. H. (2009) Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us. New York, NY: Penguin.

Intrinsic Motivation

Maslow Hierarchy Pink Motivators Game Dynamics

Avoidance of RSI, eyestrain etc

Rest, hydration, food etc

Social cohesion, friends, guilds

Status, achievement, rank

Intellectual challenges

User interfaces, game design

Adapted from Michael Wu: http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/science-of-social-blog/Gamification-101-The-Psychology-of-Motivation/ba-p/21864

Points, badges, progression

Quests, discovery, epic meaning etc

Flow Channel

SKILLSLow High

Anxiety

Boredom Stev

Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi, 1991

SKILLSLow High

Anxiety

Boredom Stev

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

SKILLSLow High

Anxiety

Boredom Stev

Beyond my reach

What I can learn with help(ZPD)

ZPD and scaffolding

What I can learn on my

Technology and toolsKnowledgeable others

Zone of Proxim

al Development (Z

SKILLSLow High

Anxiety

Boredom Stev

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

• Bring Your Own Device• User Generated Content• Open content/curricula

3: We can invent our own futures

Photo: Steve Wheeler

Twitter is not just about breakfast!

http://ww

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/breakfast.html

Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

#hashtags

Funnels of Webs

“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional

inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment

of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.” Ivan Illich (1972)

Funnels or Webs?

Our learning future…

http://le-flaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/office-workers.jpg

Mass working...

... led to mass synchronisation

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

Linear thinkingConformity

Standardisation

The computer room...

http://www.hseb.utah.edu

My PLE

My e-portfolio

My PLN

Other Tools

Personal Learning Environments

Graphic by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Environment

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

Personal Learning NetworksPhoto by Steve Wheeler

“I store my knowledge with my friends”

Connectivism Paragogy Wisdom of Crowds

Crowdsourcing Knowledge“Community as curriculum”

MOOCCONNECTIVIST

Embedded MOOCs?

“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

“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

We need ‘digital wisdom’

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/

Leaning 2.0 – Digital Literacies

Mastery

Literacies

Competencies

Skills

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

A ‘tsunami of content’

Self Organising Learning Spaces

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

Self Organising Learning Spaces

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

Flip the roles, not just the classroom

Bearpit Pedagogy

http://open.salon.com

“The way he constantly asks us to speak in his lectures rather than him allows us all to engage in, sometimes heated, discussions.” (one of my students)

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’• 2012: ‘The future is pervasive tech’hof.povray.org

Learning 3.0

Distributed (Cloud) computingExtended smart mobile technologyCollaborative intelligent filtering3D visualisation and interaction St

Future Learning Topology

Distributed (Cloud) Computing

3D Visualisation and Interaction

Smart Mobile Technology

CollaborativeIntelligent

Filtering

Infrastructure

Interface

Interaction

Graphic by Steve Wheeler

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lonqueta/5815215233/

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.“ – Albert Einstein

Thank you

W: http://steve-wheeler.netE: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.comT: @timbuckteeth

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