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Digital Pedagogy(Content is a Tyrant, Context is King)

Steve WheelerPlymouth University

NAACE Annual Conference, Leicester, UK: March 9, 2012

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http://freeimagefinder.com/detail/6370925005.html

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The goal of education

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.”

– Dave Truss

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“A school is not a fast-food outlet. Education is not a product that can be delivered to any customer.”

- Chris Woodhead (2009)http://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/

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Factory education model?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com

Synchronisation

Batch processing

Compartmentalisation

Standardisation

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Personalised Learning?

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

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Are we preparing kids for

the future or for the past?

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Surface Learning

Deep Learning

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Marton and Saljo (1972)

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Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

ENGAGEMENT

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Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

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Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Cognition

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

Critical

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999

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Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

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So Me use

>850 Million(100 billion connections)

>400 Million >150 Million

>260 Million

>14 million articles

>4 Billion imagesSources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute

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>170 Million

>90 Million

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

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http://conorcullen.com/tag/information-overload/

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Content isn’t King. It’s a Tyrant...

• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I share content?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I organise content?• How do I categorise content?

scavenging.files.wordpress.com

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Digital cultural capital

“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) http://www.coreideas.com.au/

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“Mobile phones are forcing children to become more literate. Without the ability to txt, they

cannot fully participate in their own culture of communication”

Peter Yeomans (2010)

Squeeze txt and literacy

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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 NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

But they need

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Digital literacies

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

http://www.mopocket.com/

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Skills or Literacies?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/afronie/161969948/

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language

Managing identity

nameimages

netiquettereputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal dataidentity

legacy

reputationname

privacy

images

interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

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“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

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“..we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out

knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin

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http://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/

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Neutral technologies?

http://www.oldukphotos.com

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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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Societal Shift

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Parents are building digital footprints for their children from birth, or even prior to birth.

“In Canada, USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain... 81% of children under the age of two have some kind of digital profile or footprint.”

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/

“The average digital birth of children

happens at about six months.”

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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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Learningis changing

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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Media provide selected access to the world rather than direct access to it.

Source: Buckingham, D. (2003) Media education: Literacy, learning and contemporary culture.

Filtering/Selecting

http://fotosa.ru

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‘Transliteracy’

The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality, through handwriting to digital social networks.

Image source: unknown

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Digital Natives?

The Net

Generation?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

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How do we make sense of it all?

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-279668622

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Community as curriculum

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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Wikipedia is crowdsourcing

evaluation

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BA Education Studies Facebook page

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“Delicious is like a virtual fieldtrip through a library built by the recommendations of others.”

– Chris Sessums

Social tagging

http://1.bp.blogspot.com

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Self broadcasting

.. podcasting, video sharing, organising, webcasting, slidecasting ..

http://www.classcaster.org

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Digital Content Curation

www.scoop.it/t/future-school

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

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Blogging

http://www.volusion.com/

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

- Daniel ChandlerAny teacher can now

become a global educator

Quadblogging

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1259/595625303_d054b5f8a5.jpg

Listening culture

Audio feedback for learning?

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BYOD - Personal technologies

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg

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UFO crash lands in school playing field!

http://simcloughlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/just-another-week-at-the-office/

Simon McLoughlin, a primary teacher, decided to create a bit of a scene...

He organised for some of the parents to design and create a UFO which was then ‘crashed’ in the school field.

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http://simcloughlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/just-another-week-at-the-office/

The school even organised for the police to be at the scene with their ‘Do Not Cross’ incident tape.

This added an extra air of realism...

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Video message from an alien hostage

http://simcloughlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/just-another-week-at-the-office/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjorgen/5351521340/

“When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems in real time ...while being continually assessed ... and often working collaboratively..”

-Graham Brown-MartinHead Teacher Update (Jan 2012)

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Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

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Saltash.net

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http://www.candyapplecostumes.com

Look for the teachable moments

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What’s the best thing about school? – my friends

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What’s the worst thing about school? – being treated like you’re an idiot

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Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

http://ww

w.taranakicareers.co.nz

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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

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

http://www.newcastle.edu.au

The future?

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom


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