Keynote at the HEA's Making Web 2.0 Work for You

4. who does what?

7. Architecture of participation

9. Blooms modified hierarchy

10. What Web 2.0 enables

14. technical discussion and gadgetry socio-political discussion Matthew Hurst

16. 2007

17. Learning and teaching Learning and teaching

20. Learner empowerment want learners who are enthusiastic about learning who will take responsibility for their learning, now and life-long who will play a positive role in society

21. Ingredients

22. PLEs? it’s a movement learners taking control of their own* learning * group and individual learning

23. Some class practice

25. Facilitated by (Web 2.0) tools

26. Facilitated by a PLE

27. current knowledge future knowledge with ano’s scaffolding not reachable as yet Zone of Proximal Development ZPD

28. … applied scaffolding page structure content suggestions multi-way suggestion / feedback

29. … constructionism

30. Whole-class project

31. … communication / participation with Google Groups 168 messages 68 topics guess 75% me but significant effect feedback from one class member: felt involved in a course for the first time

32. EBL/PBL/participatory courses Create independent learners? Learners are generally institutionalised Produce team-workers? Definitely (but with self-improving groups) Benefit from Web 2.0 tools / PLE? Yes, leveraging social constructivist and constructionist approaches Create new socio-technical organisation? Yes, temporarily

38. Savanna – Futurelab 2005

41. PLEs: Systems Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals manage their learning; managing both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals. A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems

42. The Manchester PLE

45. some aspects of web 2.0 support for research)

56. conclusion