Presenation at Pestalozzi seminar 8th Oct 2014 in Tallinn

1. Next generation of digital tools for 
teaching and learning
Mart Laanpere :: Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University

2. Everything is changing?

3. Defining the learning environment
 Narrow definition: classroom
 Wider definition: physical and social
environment that surrounds a learner,
including learning resources, technical
equipment, curriculum, fellow learners,
teacher (with her implicit learning theories
and teaching methods) etc.
 Is the learning environment changing?

4. Learning environment IS changing
 2400 years ago: Socrates banned the (text)books
 500 years ago: learning environment = working environment
 150 years ago: village schools
 100 years ago: learning environment was
rationalized/industrialized
 30 years ago: subject-specific classrooms
 10-15 years ago: virtual learning environment: initially a copy
of a lecture room, then a database system

5. Outdoor learning environment

6. Technological generation shifts
School Shop
?

7. Socio-technical transitions
(Geels 2002)

8. Mobile communication generations

9. Moodle servers: global stats

10. Three generations of TEL systems
Dimension 1.generation 2.generation 3.generation
Software
architecture
Educational software Course management
systems
Digital Learning
Ecosystems
Pedagogical
foundation
Bihaviorism Cognitivism Knowledge building,
connectivism
Content
management
Integrated with code Learning Objects,
content packages
Mash-up, remixed,
user-generated
Dominant
affordances
E-textbook, drill &
practice, tests
Sharing LO’s, forum
discussions, quiz
Reflections, collab.
production, design
Access Computer lab in
school
Home computer Everywhere – thanks
to mobile devices

11. Estonian Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2020
 Shift in teaching and learning paradigm
 Competent teachers and school leaders
 Meeting the job market needs
 Higher participation rates, effective funding models
 Digital turn in formal education system
 Integrating digital culture into teaching and learning
 Quality digital learning resources for all curricula
 Access to digital infrastructure, incl. 1:1 computing
 Digital competences of teachers and students

12. Digital turn towards 1:1 computing:
promise and failures
 Horizon Report 2012: the main technology trend in education
with 1 year time to adoption
 Radical shift in learning environment, re-definition of teaching
and learning processes
 Failures:
 OLPC Peru: 2.4 million laptops, no effect on learning
 Tiger Leap laptop schools: “Please, take these laptops away!”
 Success stories:
 Odder, Denmark: iPads for 200 teachers and 2000 students
 Essa Academy, UK: technology as an essential component of
radical school improvement

13. Whole school turn towards 1:1 computing
 The training and support is oriented on the level of a teacher
 Diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1992), OECD study (2002)
 Evidence-based school-level intervention models are needed

14. Innovative tools for teachers
 Edmodo.com, Eliademy.com, Schoology.com: Web-based
learning environments + mobile apps
 Kahoot.it, Socrative: rapid response (voting) systems
 LearningApps: tool for creating interactive assignments
 Scoop.it: contnent curatiion
 Aurasma, Layar: augmented reality apps, QR codes
 Educational resource cloud services: Dikaios
 EdShelf: personal toolbox of educational apps

15. Trialogical learning
 Monological learning: teacher talks, pupil listens
 Socratic method: dialogical learning
 Trialogical learning (Paavola et al): where learners
are collaboratively inquiring, developing,
transforming, or creating shared objects of activity
(such as conceptual artefacts, practices, products)
in a systematic fashion (knowledge creation
metaphor for learning)
 Vision of Students Today – a viral Youtube video

16. Pedagogical innovation
 Innovative pedagogical scenarios from LEARNMIX
project (re-conceptualizing e-textbook):
 Flipped classroom: learn from video tutorial, then groupwork
 Project-based learning: outcome-focused teamwork
 Problem-based learning: solving, then designing problems
 Inquiry-based learning: hypothesis, data collection & analysis
 Game-based learning: fun, competition, learning, rewards
 Think of a trialogical learning scenario in line with one of the
above involving QR codes (you can use ITEC scenario template)

17. An exercise
 E-textbook of the future:
 E-book (e-pub)?
 Online course?
 Mobile app?
 Standardised content package?
 A bundle of Web links?
 Think outside the box and propose a concept for innovative e-textbook
of the future, that is:
 Usable on all personal smart devices
 Allowing annotations, creative adaptations, remixing
 Creative learning tool