Digital Age Pedagogies:Deployment and effective use of new

and emerging learning technologies in the Digital Age

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

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“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

- Albert Einstein Stev

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“For the first time we are preparing

students for a future we

cannot clearly describe.”

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Knowledge or wisdom?

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Digital Natives?

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Net Generation?

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Expectations?

Needs?

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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 broadcasting

http://www.mopocket.com/

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Digital literacies

language

personal data

language

Managing identity

nameimages

netiquette

reputation

avatar interaction

privacy

identity

legacy reputation

name

privacy

images

interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

LOL – let’s post this up on Facebook

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Filtering and selecting content

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Trends in Education

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standard Curriculum

Just in timeBespoke Curriculum

Just for mePersonalised Learning

Personal Learning Environment

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Personalised Learning?

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Personalised Learning?

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged and supported

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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

are much wider than this, taking in experiences and 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.

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Blogging

http://www.volusion.com/

In the act of writing... ...we are written.

- Daniel Chandler

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Telemachus and Mentor

In Greek mythology Odysseus of Ithaca went to fight in the Trojan War and entrusted the care of his son, Telemachus, to an older and wiser friend, Mentor.

Telemachus and Mentor developed a strong relationship built on the foundations of guidance and support.

The word “mentor” has become synonymous with teacher, counsellor, coach, facilitator, motivator and friend.

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Telematic Mentoring

Geographical Distance

Online reflective diary (shared between

mentor and student)

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Wheeler S and Lambert-Heggs W (2010) Connecting Distance Learners and Their Mentors Using Blogs: The MentorBlog Project. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 10 (4), 323-331.

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MentorBlog Project findings

• Blogs effective for mentoring over a distance• More reflective conversations• Archive: ability to revisit conversations• Blog mentors need to be proactive in

seeking out student posts• Blogs are learning tools in their own right

WikiLit Project

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http://english-115.wikispaces.com

Collaborative writing spaces

http://inperspire.blogspot.com

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How can we get students to work collaboratively?

• Hidden ‘audience’ encouraged greater care in writing:“I have to consentrate more on my spelling, and

grammar so that is makes sense for the person who is reading it.. and I have to read [it] mulitple times before posting it!”

(1st Year female)

What do we know about wikis?

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Wheeler S and Wheeler D (2009) Using wikis to promote quality learning outcomes in teacher training. Learning, Media and Technology. 34 (1), 1-10.

• Use of wikis encouraged more accurate referencing:“...my referencing has improved through using

the wiki, as it had made me realise how important it is to state where you got your information from initially.”

(2nd Year female)

What do we know about wikis?

Wheeler S (2010) Using Wikis in Teacher Education: Student generated content as support in professional learning. In MJW Lee and C McLoughlin (Eds.) Web 2. 0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Press.

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• Use of wikis encouraged greater critical awareness:“… I am now developing a healthy critical and

analytical writing style thanks to the wiki. Looking at other people’s opinions and findings has helped me to question what’s in front of me …”

(2nd Year male)

What do we know about wikis?

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Wheeler S and Wheeler D (2009) Using wikis to promote quality learning outcomes in teacher training. Learning, Media and Technology. 34 (1), 1-10.

Multimedia brought the world into the classroom...

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Smart technologies will take the classroom into the world.

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http://www.lifehack.org

Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences

Moblogging

Media Sharing

http://flickr.com/photos/22409393@N03/4348233990/

Video, audio and images ...

... all contribute to the richness of the narrative.

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Video Diaries Project

Microblogging

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Retweeting is not repetition. It is amplification.

- Steve Wheeler

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What the students said...

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“All too often today we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

- John W Gardner

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The future?

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Thank you

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