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A keynote speech to the eLearning 2.0 Conference, held at Brunel University, London on 8 June 2012. Some of the slides are annotated for additional clarity and explanation.
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Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth
Plymouth University
Learning in a Digital Age:Myth and Reality
eLearning 2.0 Conference, Brunel University: June 8, 2012
Prague Airport 2012
Prague Airport 2012
Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet
So Me use
>850 Million(100 billion connections)
>400 Million >150 Million
>260 Million
>14 million
articles
>6 Billion images
Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com
>4 Billion views/day>60 hours/minute
>170 Million
>90 Million
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_mob_pho-media-mobile-phones
Worldwide ownership of mobile phones
5.9 Billion mobile accounts
= 87% of population ?
Mobile game based learning
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/
“We are becoming distributed beings. Mobile makes the trend more explicit.” - Mark Curtis (2005)
The first mobile device
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Although the world’s media were in Berlin for Obama’s historic speech, each person in the
crowd wanted to capture their own memories and share them with others.
“..we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out
knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstinhttp://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/
[The next big thing - Flipped Classrooms]
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/116382
http://schipul.com/photos/3659/in/122/
MOOC
TED The Khan Academy and other attempts to create out of classroom content are great. But learning
is much more than this.
http://w
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.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/2300379755/sizes/l/in/photostream
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Flipping the classroom is not just about video. We need to more deeply consider how students
are learning in the digital age.
Flip the roles, not the classroom
Students can take on the roles of teachers, and teachers those of learners. This is the essence of
the true flipped classroom.
http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/
We learn by teaching
Bearpit Pedagogy
http://open.salon.com
Students encouraged to create their own content, present it to their peers and defend it against criticism – developing critical thinking.
[Learning styles]
“There are as many learning styles as there are people.”
– Wheeler (2009)http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com
VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing
Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Situated learning
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper Learning
http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/
We need to think critically on
our beliefs about learning
http://w
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.nonformality.org/2006/04/excuse-m
isuse-or-abuse/
“This field suffers from serious conceptual confusion and a lack of accumulated theoretical knowledge.” – Frank Coffield
[Learning in large
organisations cannot be
personalised]
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg
Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are
acknowledged
We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com
Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com
Personal Learning Environment
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)
http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/
“The average digital birth of children
happens at about six months.”
[There are digital natives]
Digital Natives?
The Net
Generation?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/
Homo
Zappiens?
http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html
Digital Residents or Visitors?
http://learningputty.com
[Mobile Phones should be banned]
http://i.dailymail.co.uk
...they are distracting and disruptive. The phone becomes
the focus of attention,inappropriate images/videos can
be taken and sent, leading to invasion of privacy and loss of
teacher control!
Mobile phones are banned in most schools because...
Objections from Educators
BYOD - Personal technologies
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg
When we ban young people from using their mobile devices, we prevent them from communicating and
learning in ways that are meaningful to them.
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/
http://i125.photobucket.com
[SMS is dumbing down the English Language]
Language is organic
www.socialedge.org
Language is
constantly evolving
as society changes –
‘Neologisms’
20,000 new words introduced into the English language
each year.http://itre.cis.upenn.edu
“The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong....There’s a new kind of ethos now.”
~ David Crystal
Evolution of Language
http://www.utsa.edu
“The arrival of [new technologies] all pulled
language in new directions. But texting is
different”
~ David Crystal
Competition to write the Lord’s Prayer in <160 characters
r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u rain ear as in evan. giv us r needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4 ur always the most xlent dude. yo
“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
[All technology is neutral]
http://www.oldukphotos.com
The old debate between Clark and Kozma over whether technology has the potential to change
the way we learn…
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
… and some wisdom from Marshal McLuhan on the power of technology to shape our
perceptions and behaviour.
Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/
Intuitive handheld devices
Natural gesture interface
Connection to my learning network
Learningis changing
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
[Wikipedia is untrustworthy]
Who can you trust online?
http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png
http://www.themodernman.com
“60% of all Internet pages contain
misleading information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital wisdom’
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- Socrates
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
DarwikianismThrough iteration, editing, deletion, addition and reworking, we witness the survival of the fittest
content online.
Wikipedia is crowdsourcing
evaluation
Community as curriculum
Folksonomies emerge based on the desire of the community. This bottom-up approach ensures that
content that is important to the community becomes the most prominent…
[Twitter is all about breakfast]
http://w
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.lythhillhouse.com/breakfast.htm
l
Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner
Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification
What my students said about Twitter...
http://jcbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-twitter.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
[The Internet is dangerous]
25 million views 46 million views
447 million views51 million views
Content goes viral when it is useful, funny, entertaining, shocking or otherwise resonant to the community.
Sometimes content can be ambiguous, or subject to subtle changes that are difficult for some to detect…
“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)
http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630
We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.
“We know that there are two
thousand elements which
we cannot use to make a good light
bulb.”- Thomas Edison[Failure is a bad thing]
“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
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Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
