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Collaborative learning and online communities
Steve Wheeler Plymouth University
United Kingdom
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Personal windows on the world
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We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)
Photo by Steve Wheeler
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We learn by making (Papert, 1960) Photo by Steve Wheeler
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Online, en masse
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
Consuming, producing, remixing, sharing
Learning 2.0
User generated
content
Learning by making
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Learning 2.0
Curation Collaborating
Sharing and Amplifying
Voting
Networking
User generated
content
Architecture of participation
Tagging and Bookmarking
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Aggregation
Tribal nature of new media
“New media ... have made our world into a single unit... The world is now like a continually sounding tribal drum. Media point us away from individual man and toward tribal man.” ~ Marshall McLuhan (1960) metapedia.com
“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”
Internet tribes “A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
Digital tribes and virtual clans
There is one digital tribe ... But there are may subsets of this large digital tribe – what we can term ‘virtual clans’. - Wheeler (2009)
Image source: David Shankbone – Wikimedia Commons
Communities of practice
“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and
learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” (Wenger 2007)
“Being alive as human beings means that we are constantly engaged in the pursuit of enterprises of all
kinds, from ensuring our physical survival to seeking the most lofty pleasures. As we define these enterprises and engage in their pursuit together, we interact with each
other and with the world and we tune our relations with each other and with the world accordingly. In other
words we learn.” (Wenger, 1998)
Lurking, or legitimate peripheral
participation?
Image source: https://convcme.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/communities-of-practice-a-framework-for-learning-and-improvement/
Personal Learning Networks
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Personal Learning Networks
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Personal Learning Networks
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Personal Learning Networks
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Crowdsourcing knowledge: Building your PLN
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“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through
collecting people”. - Karen Stephenson
Connectivism
Image source: Martin Fisch https://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/7968954274
The Wisdom of the Crowd….
…or Stupidity of the Mob
Paragogy
Beyond my reach
What I can learn with help (ZPD)
ZPD and scaffolding
What I can learn on my
own
Technology and tools Knowledgeable others
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We are family http://pro.corbis.com
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Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
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Graphic by Steve Wheeler
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Digital Cultural Capital – Membership of ‘the Tribe’
“Where digital
communication has fractured the tyranny of distance, and computers
have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation
has become the new cultural capital”.
Wheeler (2009)
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‘New’ learners are... • more self-directed
• better equipped to capture information
• more reliant on feedback from peers
• more inclined to collaborate
• more oriented toward being their own
“nodes of production”.
Education Trends | Featured News John K. Waters—13 December 2011
http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
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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’
Stev
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The selfie
The best photo bomb… ever!
“60% of all Internet pages
contain misleading
information.” - Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital literacies’
Stev
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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 presention • Transliteracy
http://www.mopocket.com/
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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” - Socrates Plato
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Stev
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ler,
Un
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of
Ply
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, 20
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Thank you
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