The future of learning blended learning

The Future of Learning:

Blended learning?

Enrique Arias Castaño

The Future...?

It is very difficult to predict the future. It’s

difficult to even predict what will

happen in the next year.

The Future...?

When he saw a demonstration of the

telephone in 1880, a U.S Mayor declared: “One day every town in America will

have a telephone!”

Advances in technology,

information, and communication, have

changed the way learning and instruction

are carried out.

“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly

describe.”

David Warlick

http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

Here’s a problem for teachers:

Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning

Informal Learning

20% 80%

Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.

Shouldn’t we now start to blend formal and informal

learning?

Students today are doing things differently from those 20 years ago

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Digital Digital Natives?Natives?

The Net

Generation?We shouldn’t be categorising learners like this!

Digital Native

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Expectations

Needs

.....are not the same as...

Learners enjoy learning when it’s engaging and

fun!

Engaging and fun!

Serious games

Interactive narrativesRole play simulations

Massively Online Role Playing Games

Across the Years

YGen XBaby

Boomers Gen Z ?Veterans

1965 19801945 2000

Generation YMillennialsEcho Boomers

Net GenBaby BustersGeneration Next

Boomlets Nintendo Generation

Across the Years

YGen XBaby

Boomers Gen Z ?Veterans

1965 19801945 2000

shifts happened

Paper-based culture

Handwriting Typing

Post-ItSpiral

Notebooks

Highlighting Filing

Screen-based culture

E-mail Webcams

Blogging Gaming

Googling Streaming

Learners will need new ‘literacies’

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

cyberculture

Learners will need new ‘literacies’

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

cybercultureThe new web environments are

game changers. learners now

need new (digital) literacies

Personalised Learning?

Personalised Learning?

Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences

are acknowledged

Personal Learning Environments

PersonalLearning

Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

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

PLEs are not only personal web tools and

personal learning networks. PLEs takes

realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &

more formal contexts.

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

Sources of Information

Learning Environments

CLOSEDSTRUCTURED

OPENACCESSIBLE

SCHOOL-BASED

BROADCAST TELEVISION /

RADIO

MULTIMEDIA

ONLINE LEARNING

MOBILE LEARNING

INFORMAL LEARNING

Learning Tools

Modes of Communication

Social Media use

>500 Million

>100 Million >50 Million

>125 Million

>14 million articles

>4 Billion images

Source: http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute

YCulture of technologyCulture of technology

Advent of the internetAdvent of

the internet

Changes in the forms of information

Changes in the forms of information

Changes in modes communication

Changes in modes communication

digital natives“born with I.T.”

They don’t know any other way

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Educators are faced with even more

CHALLENGES than the last century

CENTURY21st

Tech-SavvyMulti-Taskers

PersonalHands-On

VisualCollaborativeGoal-Oriented

Social

Tech-SavvyMulti-Taskers

PersonalHands-On

VisualCollaborativeGoal-Oriented

Social

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Where’s the Conflict?

21st Century Learner

Traditional Teacher

vs.

Where’s the Conflict?

vs.Traditional

LearnerModernLearner

Beliefs FILE SHARING

Beliefs INFORMAL LEARNING

Trust NEW SOURCES

Old Learner vs. New Learner

Techno-Phobic

Sequential

Formal

Passive

Tech-Savvy

Multi-Tasker

Personal

Hands-On

Old Learner vs. New Learner

Text Based

Competitive

Private

Visual

Collaborative

Social

Task-Oriented

Goal-Oriented

Shift in Learning Theories for the Online Environment

Teachers have to keep up

Technology Literacy Media Literacy

Online CommunicationInternet Tools

Students with 21st century skills require teachers with 21st century skills too!

21st Century Skilled Teacher

•Computer-Savvy•Creative•Critical•Constructive•Connected •Communicative

BRAIN BREAK

“Cuando alcancemos el óptimo de información, habremos llegado al máximo de desinformación POR SATURACIÓN”

Ignacio Ramonet, periodista español, figura principal del movimiento antiglobalización.

PODCAST

• podcast is from iPod and broadcast

• Un podcast se asemeja a una suscripción a un blog hablado en la que recibimos los programas a través de Internet.

• File to download – mp3• Difusion on RSS

(Really Simple Syndication)

VOXOPOP.COM

Not traditional forum

Audiorecord participations

Conversational groups:open &

restrictive

PODOMATIC.COM web/blog developer:- Attach audio files

EJMS:http://los39sonidos.podomatic.com/

http://audiolibros.podomatic.com/

Podcast channels

PODERATO.COMpodcast developer

EJMS:http://www.poderato.com/futboltotalcr/futbol-total/ftbol-total-7-de-mayo-2012

1 Gb to upload

VOCAROO.COM

• Simple interface• Record or upload audio files• 50mb

• Simple• easy

• useful

VIDEOCAST

• El Videocast o Videopodcast es un archivo multimedia que contiene una información combinada de audio y video

• Los videos se pueden publicar en un servidor externo (YouTube, por ejemplo)

• EJM:• http://sites.google.com/site/lenguabovalar/home/

publicaciones/lazarillo

Mind mapsconceptual maps

Graphic representations of knowledge

MINDMEISTER.COM

• FaceBook user and try it without Submit

• Print and variety of formats• Share with others

MINDOMO.COM

COMAPPING.COM

BUBBL.USBrainstorming

CMAPTOOLSFREEMIND

FREEInstallation

WEBSITES

Wix online editor - Flash

Jimdo web editor, free, fast, and easy to use

PREZI.COM

• presentations off-line (download as Flash)• FaceBook

Prezi zooming, designing,

drawing and presenting

And more tools…• Calameo.com

• http://www.calameo.com/read/001356417f1c51d02eed2

• Powerpoint to video• Knovio.com

• Cuadernia• http://edu.jccm.es/cp/antoniomachado/cuadernia/

casa/index.html• http://cuadernia.educa.jccm.es/

• Video online• Ustream.tv

• Videos from images• Vuvox.com

• SKYPE (install)