Steve Wheeler shares his 'Learning Futures: How new & emerging technologies will impact learning and development’ at Learning Pool Live 2013

1. Steve Wheeler
Institute of Education
Plymouth University
Digital Learning Futures
How new & emerging technologies will impact
learning and development
2013

2. Can we predict the Future...?
http://westernfrontierblog.wordpress.com/
“One day every town in America will have a
telephone!”
- U.S. Mayor, (c 1880)

3. The First Mobile Phone

4. Photo by Steve Wheeler

5. “The future is already here — it's just not
very evenly distributed” – William Gibson
http://intergalacticrobot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/helen-oloy.html

6. http://www.digitaltrends.com
“It is impossible
to predict the
future with great
accuracy”
– Michio Kaku

7. http://www.sabotagetimes.com/life/a-vision-of-the-future-from-1910/
Learning 2000
Villemard
Disruptive Technology

8. The Future...?
• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’
• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’
• 2010: ‘The future is smart mobile’
• 2013: ‘The future is pervasive tech’
hof.povray.org
“Change is not linear. It’s exponential”
– Ray Kurzweil

9. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal

10. The NMC Horizon
Project charts the
landscape of
emerging
technologies for
teaching, learning,
research, creative
inquiry, and
information
management

11. 4 to
5 Years
2 to
3 Years
1 Year
or Less
Great Expectations 2013
• 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 adoptionEmerging Technology

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

13. Students taking notes
Photo: Lori Cullen

14. 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’)

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

17. “Lee Harvey and the Wailers”
(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)
http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

18. “60% of all Internet
pages contain
misleading
information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital literacies’

19. 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/

20. Image source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photography_using_Canon_Digital_IXUS_850_IS.jpg
Transliteracy

21. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal

22. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8227/8397808475_d7554a5c62_z.jpg
C
X
Massive
Open
Online
Courses

23. //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

24. Learning
User
generated
content
Learning by making

25. Learning
2.0
Tools
Collaborating
Sharing
Voting
Networking
User
generated
content
Architecture of participation
Tagging

26. We are family
http://pro.corbis.com

27. Wii are family!
http://wiifitnessdepot.com

28. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
Global
Social
Personal

29. http://www.homodiscens.com
Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligences
http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com

30. Personalised learning means ensuring
that individual differences are
acknowledged
Personalised Learning

31. Trends in Learning
Just for me Apprenticeship model
Just in case Standard Curriculum
Just in timeBespoke Curriculum
Just for mePersonalised Learning
Personal Learning Environment

32. Photo by Steve Wheeler
Games Based Learning

33. Open Badges?
http://www.skilledup.com/blog/holistic-enhancement-valuing-human-capital/
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2013/06/21/new-open-badges-napkin-sketch/

34. Personal Learning Networks
Photo by Steve Wheeler

35. Connection
Context
Complexity
Connotation
Image by Steve Wheeler, adapted from: Mark Federman (2012)
Skills for Learning 2.0

36. Connection
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
Image source: http://i.imwx.com

37. Context
Multiple, diverse
Interpretation

38. Complexity
Preparation
for uncertainty
Photo by Steve Wheeler

39. Connotation
Making meaning
Photo by Steve Wheeler

40. Learning and Development 2.0
Mastery
Literacies
Competencies
Skills
Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

41. Self organised learning
For successful self organised learning the essential
components are:
• Communication
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• Community
• Creative Tools
• Amplification

42. Self Organising Learning Spaces
Photo by William Murphy: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3146778883

43. Photo by Steve Wheeler
Games Based Learning

44. Ipsative assessment

45. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
On the
Horizon…

46. http://abdtechnology.com/tag/google-glass/
Wearable Device
Enhanced Vision
Increased connection
Extended Memory
Augmented
Reality

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

48. http://advertiser-in-arabia.blogspot.co.uk/
Marker
Technology

49. http://www.indiegogo.com
Muse: Mind controlled computing?
Wearable
Sensor

50. http://vimeo.com/52390320
“Improving your
concentration and
focus, de-stressing,
managing your
thinking – and new
control interface
possibilities”
- Interaxon (2012)

51. The only way of
discovering the
limits of the
possible is to
venture a little
way past them,
into the
impossible.
Image: http://www.astrobio.net