Presentation to the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Faculty of Science First Year Lecturer Academy on 2 November, and to UJ's Faculty of Management and CPASD Teaching and learning seminar on 1 November 2011.

1. Presentation by Carina van Rooyen
to the First Year Academy of UJ’s Faculty of Science
on 2 November 2011

2. Insanity: doing
the same thing
over and over
again and
expecting
different results
~ Albert
Einstein

3. Source: Wheeler 2010
http://www.delasallewaterford.com

4. Source: Wheeler 2010
http://www.hseb.utah.edu

9.  It can be new technologies
 But it can be using also old
technologies in new way!

12. “One day every
town in America
will have a
telephone!”
Source: Wheeler 2010
~ US mayor
(c 1880)

13. “Students today can’t
prepare bark to
calculate their
problems. They
depend on slate which
is more expensive.
What will they do
when they drop the
slate and it breaks?
Source: Wheeler 2010
They will be unable to
write!”
(Teachers conference,
1703)
http://www.objectlessons.org

14. “Students today
depend on paper
too much. They
don’t know how to
write without
getting chalk dust
all over them. What
will they do when
Source: Wheeler 2010
they run out of
paper?”
(Principal’s
association – 1815)
http://www.nikkikatz.com

15. http://www.gadgettastic.com
Source: Wheeler 2010
“Ball point pens will be the ruin of education
in our country. Students use these devices
and then throw them away. The American
virtues of thrift and frugality are being
discarded.”
(US Federal teacher, 1950)

16. “Cell phones don’t belong
in the classroom. A student
with a cell phone is an
uninterested student, one
with a short attention span
who cares more about
socialising than education.
…The onus for failure
should be placed on
distractions in the
classroom, specifically cell
phones.”
~ Jesse Scaccia Former
English teacher, 2006
Source of quote: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUE/is_7_139/ai_n17215695/

18. Remember Einstein
Insanity: doing
the same thing
over and over
again and
expecting
different results

22. “For the first
time we are
preparing
students for a
future we
cannot clearly
describe” ~
David Warlick

24. Effective learners are…
Lifelong learners
Source: Tolisano
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usagent/261743402/

25. Effective learners are…
Source: Tolisano
natural navigators
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_cristina/2252226613/

26. Effective learners are…
Critical thinkers &
Source: Tolisano
evaluators
http://www.flickr.com/photos/borghetti/43058749
/

27. Effective learners are…
effective
communicators & creators
http://flickr.com/photos/suckamc/5388273/

28. Effective communicators & creators are…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/867886652/
Source: Tolisano
able to create something new

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/1331640797/
Effective communicators & creators are…
Source: Tolisano
able to communicate
across culture, time &
distance

30. Effective global collaborators
Source: Tolisano
http://flickr.com/photos/pingnews/491430005/in/photostream/

32. Communicate
Connect
Collaborate
Critical think
Adapted from Tolisano
Citizenship
Create

33. Communicate
Source: Tolisano
Connect
Collaborate
Critical think
Citizenship
Create

34. Communicate
Adapted from Tolisano
Connect
Collaborate
Critical think
Citizenship
Create

35. Communicate
Connect
Collaborate
Critical thinking
Citizenship
Create

36. Communicate
Connect
Collaborate
Critical think
Citizenship
Create

37. Communicate
Adapted from Tolisano
Connect
Collaborate
Critical think
Citizenship
Create

38.  Social networking
 Privacy maintenance
 Identity management
Source: Wheeler Oct 2011
 Creating content
 Organising content
 Reusing & repurposing
 Filtering & selecting
 Self presenting
http://www.mopocket.com/

39. Revised Bloom’s taxonomy for the 21st century
Create
Evaluate
Analyse
Apply
Understand
Remember

40. Revised‐revised Bloom’s taxonomy for the 21st century

42.  Lecturer viewed as source of
information & knowledge
 Classroom as place where all knowledge
disseminated
 Everyone learns the same way
 Chalk and talk (PPT, OHP, chalk board)
 Content, content, content
 Sink or swim approach – at best push
students
 I teach, therefore you learn

43. Teacher Learner
Teaching Learning
Socially connected
Individual
Adapted from Conole 2011
individual
Content Activities
Real space Virtual space

44. “The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.”
~ Alvin Toffler

46. Shift from being knowledgeable to
being knowledge‐able
(Michael Wesch)

47. Learning
I’ll starve if all we do is read about
the nuts!

51.  Advances in technology, communication &
information provide opportunities for
connecting with our learners
 But it is not about technology per se;
technology is simply another tool we have
at our disposal
 Technology to be weaved into curriculum;
not to be add-on

52. They are ‘digital natives’, says
Marc Prensky

55. Rather digital residents and digital
visitors, says Dave White

56. digital

58. Source: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/global/mobile-phones-dominate-in-south-africa/

60. Enhanced (mediated) learning
approach to be effective and
relevant and fun

61. Source: Kuropatwa 2010

62. Synchronous
Face-to-face
• LMS (formal)
Online • Social media
• PLE (informal)
Other support
Homework
Asynchronous

63.  Different combinations of different modes of
delivery: classroom/physical contact, e-
learning, social learning)

65. Multimedia
brought the
world into the
classroom...
Smart
Source: Wheeler 2010
technologies will
take the
classroom into
the world

69. In class
In
tutorials

70. Source: Picdrome (public domain

75. Source: Youtube

76. E-learning should not just be
e-information or electronic
learning, but rather about
enhance learning

77. www.localseoguide.com
Adapted from Wheeler 2010
Adapted from Wheeler 2010

78. Web 2.0:
Contribute,
collaborate,
create, i.e.
user
Adapted from Wheeler 2010
participation

79. Group or social learning

80. George Siemens calls this
connectivism
He proposes connectivism as a learning
approach for the digital age ~ social
constructivism theory (Siemens 2004)

83. Generating
content
Blog Mashup
E-
Wiki
portfolio
Source: Wheeler Oct 2011
Tagging Organising
Sharing content
content

85.  Tweet as ideal student
 Posted links
 Students follow at least two experts
 Discussions related to content: discussion beyond
classroom; #ows1
 Summarize paragraph
 Building a learning community: last year’s
students tweeting to this year’s first years
 Responded to questions: enhances feelings of
care and connectivity

90. Source: Alsagoff 2011
Engagement
Content development

93. Adapted from Tolisano
Focus on problem solving

94. http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2049233526/
Break down classroom walls
Source: Tolisano

95. Source: Tolisano
Embrace digital tools
http://flickr.com/photos/slipstreamjc/748716731/

96. Source: Tolisano
Design real‐
world
challenges
http://flickr.com/photos/ilker/2493908947/

97. http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/174586756/
Authentic audience
Source: Tolisano

98. http://flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/322023870/
Networked and
connected learning
Source: Tolisano

99. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jek-a-go-go/440119001/ Customised learning experience
Source: Tolisano

100. Relevant
Source: Tolisano
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmueller/454262550/

101. Source: Alsagoff

103. http://allfunny.net/pics/crazykids/crazy-kids-8.jpg

105. Using Twitter in this course has been a useful
learning tool.
 Fully agree 39.2%
 Agree 42.1% %
 Disagree 13.3% Agree +
 Fully disagree 4.9% Disagree ‐
I intend to continue using Twitter after this
course.
 Fully agree 38.8%
 Agree 40.1%
 Disagree 13.8%
 Fully disagree 7.2%

106.  Student’s tweet: ish guys dnt mind my weird tweets
sumtyms, its my assignments... thanks 2 #uj
 It is simply easy and great, doing academic assignment
with phone 220km away from Johannesburg.
 At first I could not see the importance of using twitter
for academic reasons but now I think its is so cool.
 Development Studies is taking education to a new
level… This is an interesting and fun way to do
schoolwork.
 Twitter has taught me how to find useful organisations
and learnt that twitter is just not about having fun but
also sharing informative ideas.
 The discussions we have on twitter are very helpful and
I think we getting marked to do what we luv doing, and
that is being on social networks...whoever came up with
this idea, thank you, all the other students are jealous
that we have this opportunity.

107.  I liked the use of twitter(socialisation with
fellow students in the same module).We
actually learned a lot from one another.
 I have learnt how to be concise with what I
write.
 Twitter can be very confusing when you still
new but as time goes by you can get used
to it and it can be very interesting.
 The use of twitter was very interesting. I
enjoyed the fact that learning did not only
take place in the lecture rooms but even on
social networks which you could take part in
during your spare time.
 #ILoveIt

108. Source: Wheeler 2011

109.  Twitter is not as interesting as Facebook,
but it’s been helpful academically.
 It is not clear and popular enough.
Perhaps facebook can be used – students
don’t go passed a day without it; it could
stimulate more interaction.
 It’s too complicated.
 140 characters is not enough to express
my opinion; it’s frustrating.
 I don't understand twitter at all.

110. Broader comments on course
 “Continue to find new ways of making the
course and module interesting. The web page
was something totally different.”
 “[I have learnt] doing group work without
meeting any of the group members – you
gotta love technology!”
 “Despite endless assignments the course is
just so awesome and making you to eager to
learn more.”
 A nearly unbelievable request: “Give us more
assignments.”
 I definitely enjoy Friday classes; it’s worth
waking up at 4:30am :)

111.  98% of students agree that they have
learnt A LOT in this module
 It has opened my eyes for gender stereotypes
and changed my perspective in terms of
gender
 This course help us to think critically before
we talk and it build our standing point as the
youth of South Africa
 Another thing, I loved is that I left each class
having more questions than I did before,
questions I may not get easy answers to…
 It opens our eyes to new experiences, to a
new way of thinking. It makes us think of the
grey areas in life and reminded me that not
everything is as it seem.

112. Do more assignments in hard copy.
Old school teaching please!
Carina rocks, l wish she would take
me through and through, but esh
online and wetpaint really sucks.
Some of us hate spending more time
in front of computers.

114. http://allfunny.net/pics/crazykids/crazy-kids-8.jpg

115. Source: Youtube

117. Challenges for me
• Poor digital literacy of students
• Digital divide: Access to internet
off campus?; no wifi on campus
• E-safety, privacy & digital
footprint
• Digital people, but analogue
students (Tan 2009): some
students are expecting
conventional lecturing

121.  Follow incremental approach
 Learn as you go
 Use resources that already available
 Teamwork
 Tutors
 CenTAL, Writing Centre, ADD
 Model 21st century skills
 Openness: The new Einsteins will be scientists
who share…working online and in open ~ The
Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2011
 Conversation
 Ethics
 Crowdsource

122. Quote by George Siemens
Quote by George Siemens

123.  Twitter: @carinavr
 Papers online:
http://johannesburg.academia.edu/Carinavan
Rooyen
 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/carinavr
 Social bookmarking:
http://www.delicious.com/carina_vanrooyen
 Google site:
https://sites.google.com/site/ujsotl

124.  Lecturer must have content
knowledge, pedagogy knowledge and
technology knowledge
 AND be connected ourselves –
become the learner you are trying to
develop

125. Source: Youtube

127. e-Maturity @ UJ
Research project by CenTAL
2011
Source: Amory 2011

132. Source: Rainie 2011
Don’t
afraid
be

133. From Latin Educere = to draw out what is
within; = to bring out potential
Adapted from Wheeler Oct 2011

137. Stop
imagining
why it won’t
work. Start
imagining
why it will ~
Dan Rockwell

138. Insanity: doing
the same thing
over and over
again and
expecting
different results
~ Albert
Einstein

141. Source: Wheeler 2010
http://www.taranakicareers.co.nz
While doctors save lives

143.  Alsagoff ZA 2011 Social media & Web2.0 for learning. On slideshare
 Bell F 2011 Connectivism: Its place in theory-informed research and innovation in
technology-enabled learning. International Review of Research in Open and Distance
Learning 12(3): 98- 118
 Cofino K The 21st century learner. On Slideshare
 Colwell C, Jelfs A & Richardsom JTE Older students’ use of digital technologies in distance
education.
 Conole G 2010 The changing landscape of educational practices. Presentations at the
NADE annual conference, Horten (Norway), 18th November 2010
 Downes S 2011 Connectivism and personal learning. 17 October for Change MOOC
 Floro N 2011 The future of learning today. Presented to E-learning DevCon 2011 at Salt
Lake City on 15-17 July
 Kovatcheva P 2011 The academic librarian on the move: The use of mobile technology in
support to teaching, learning and research. Presentation to iBala workshop on 28
September 2011 at the CSIR
 Kuropatwa D 2010 Hybrid classrooms. Presentation on 13 April. On slideshare
 Lewis B 2010 The 21st century learner: Blended learning tools and the use of social
networks. On Slideshare
 Moore D 2011 #Occupythelibrary. On Slideshare
 Pettiward J 2010 University 2.0? Using social software to enhance learner engagement.
Presentation at Evolving e-learning concepts and skills, 1 June

144.  Rainie L 2011 As learning goes mobile. On Slideshare
 Siemens G 2011 At the threshold: Higher education, complexity and
change. Presentation to Unisa Conference on 1 September. On Slideshare
 Tolisano Shifts in 21st century learning. On Slideshare
 Wheeler S 2010 Transformation and inspiration through social media:
Meeting the needs of the 21st century learner. Keynote speech for
ULearn2010, Christchurch, New Zealand, 6-8 October
 Wheeler S Oct 2011 Learning and teaching in the digital age. Presentation
to the 8th International Teacher Training Seminar, held in Barcelona on 6
October.
 Wheeler S 2011 Teaching and learning with Twitter. On Slideshare
 Williams R, Karousou R & Mackness J 2011 Emergent learning and learning
ecologies in Web2.0. International Review of Research in Open and
Distance Learning 12(3): 39-59
 Other presentations on Slideshare by Peter Bihr, Jay Cross, Jane Dysart &
Stephen Abram, Steve Hargadon, Derek Moore, John Moravec, Megan
Poore, Marc Rosenberg, cahel Sauers, Cindy Wright
 If not acknowledged on slide, photos from Google Images and Pixabay
(public domain)