Steve Wheeler Institute of Education Plymouth University

Digital Learning Futures New approaches to learning: Innovation in

Post Secondary Education

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co.uk/2010_03_01_archive.html

New York, c 1903

Image: http://www.astrobio.net

“Any sufficiently advanced

technology is indistinguishable

from magic”.

- Arthur C. Clarke

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http://www.digitaltrends.com

“It is impossible to predict the future with great accuracy” – Michio Kaku

Can we predict the Future...?

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“One day every town in America will have a telephone!”

- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

The First Mobile Phone

Photo by Steve Wheeler

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed” – William Gibson

http://intergalacticrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/helen-oloy.html

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/

Learning 2000

Villemard

Disruptive Technology

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’

• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’

• 2010: ‘The future is smart mobile’

hof.povray.org

“Change is not linear. It’s exponential” – Ray Kurzweil

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

Global Social

Personal

The NMC Horizon Project charts the

landscape of emerging

technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative

inquiry, and information

management

4 to 5 Years

2 to 3 Years

1 Year or Less

Great Expectations 2012

• Mobile Learning Apps

• Tablet Computing

• Games based learning

• Learner Analytics

• The Internet of Things

• Gestural computing

Graphics concept by Steve Wheeler

Source: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2012-horizon-report

Time to adoption Emerging Technology

4 to 5 Years

2 to 3 Years

1 Year or Less

Great Expectations 2014

• Flipped Classroom

• Learner Analytics

• 3D Printing

• Games and Gamification

• The Quantified Self

• Virtual Assistants

Graphics concept by Steve Wheeler

Source: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/2014-horizon-report

Time to adoption Emerging Technology

http://sellyourstoryuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Old-and-Young-Computer.jpg

Students taking notes Photo: Lori Cullen

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’)

“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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/

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

Global Social

Personal

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Massive Open Online Courses

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.

- Karen Stephenson

Distributed Social Learning

Paragogy

Self Organising Learning Spaces

Photo by William Murphy: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3146778883

Taxonomy

Folksonomy

Rhizonomy

Flip the roles, not just the classroom

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Flipped Classroom

http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/

We learn by teaching

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Bear Pit Pedagogy

Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Learning by making

Learning 2.0

Tools Collaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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

Global Social

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Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

Personalised Learning

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Connection

Context

Complexity

Connotation

Image by Steve Wheeler, adapted from: Mark Federman (2012)

Skills for Learning 2.0

Learning and Development 2.0

Mastery

Literacies

Competencies

Skills

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

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

On the Horizon…

Web 3.0 Semantic Web

Web 1.0 The Web

Web x.0 Meta Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

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Web 3.0 Semantic Web

Web 1.0 The Web

Web x.0 Meta Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The (Smart) eXtended Web

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http://abdtechnology.com/tag/google-glass/

Wearable Device

Enhanced Vision

Increased connection

Extended Memory

Augmented Reality

Quantified Self

http://www.research-live.com/opinion/the-quantified-self/4009603.article

Sleep

Diet Bio

metrics

Life Logging Grades?

http://petitinvention.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/snowcorn5.jpg

Mixed Reality

http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.co.uk/

Marker Technology

http://www.indiegogo.com

Muse: Mind controlled computing?

Wearable Sensor

The only way of discovering the

limits of the possible is to

venture a little way past them,

into the impossible.

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