very useful presentation for education and web tools

1. Steve Wheeler
@timbuckteeth
Plymouth University
Learning in a Digital Age:
Myth and Reality
eLearning 2.0 Conference, Brunel University: June 8, 2012

2. Prague Airport 2012

3. Prague Airport 2012

4. Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

5. So Me use
>260 Million
Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com
>4 Billion views/day
>60 hours/minute
>90 Million

6. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_mob_pho-media-mobile-phones
Worldwide ownership of mobile phones
5.9 Billion mobile accounts
= 87% of population ?

7. Mobile game based learning
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-mobile-gaming-statistics-stats-2011/

8. “We are becoming distributed beings. Mobile makes
the trend more explicit.” - Mark Curtis (2005)
The first mobile device

9. Connection
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2010
http://i.imwx.com
Although the world’s media were in Berlin for
Obama’s historic speech, each person in the
crowd wanted to capture their own memories
and share them with others.

10. “..we can drown in our technology.
The fog of information can drive out
knowledge.” - Daniel J. Boorstin
http://gcaptain.com/drowning?10981/

11. [The next big thing - Flipped Classrooms]
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/116382

12. http://schipul.com/photos/3659/in/122/
MOOC
TEDThe Khan Academy and other attempts to create
out of classroom content are great. But learning
is much more than this.

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/2300379755/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Flipping the classroom is not just about video.
We need to more deeply consider how students
are learning in the digital age.

14. Flip the roles, not the classroom
Students can take on the roles of teachers, and
teachers those of learners. This is the essence of
the true flipped classroom.

15. http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/
We learn by teaching

16. Bearpit Pedagogy
http://open.salon.com
Students encouraged to create their own
content, present it to their peers and defend it
against criticism – developing critical thinking.

17. [Learning styles]
“There are as many learning styles as
there are people.”
– Wheeler (2009)
http://fluorescentflicker.files.wordpress.com

18. VAK model
Visual Seeing and reading
Auditory Hearing and speaking
Kinaesthetic Touching and doing

19. Multi-modal learning...?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic

20. ...or Confucius repurposed?
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand

21. Situated learning
Auditory
Visual Kinaesthetic
I see, I remember
I hear, I know
I do, I understand
Cognition
Memory Meta Cognition
Deeper
Learning

22. http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/
http://www.nonformality.org/2006/04/excuse-misuse-or-abuse/
“This field suffers from serious conceptual
confusion and a lack of accumulated
theoretical knowledge.” – Frank Coffield

23. [Learning in
large
organisations
cannot be
personalised]
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/3778408_ecdaec0dae.jpg

24. Personalised learning means ensuring
that individual differences are
acknowledged

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

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

27. Personal Learning Environment
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

28. http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/
“The average digital
birth of children
happens at about six
months.”
[There are digital natives]

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

30. http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html
Digital Residents or Visitors?

31. http://learningputty.com
[Mobile Phones should be banned]

32. http://i.dailymail.co.uk
...they are distracting and
disruptive. The phone becomes
the focus of attention,
inappropriate images/videos can
be taken and sent, leading to
invasion of privacy and loss of
teacher control!
Mobile phones are banned in
most schools because...
Objections from Educators

33. BYOD - Personaltechnologies
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg
When we ban young people from using their mobile
devices, we prevent them from communicating and
learning in ways that are meaningful to them.

34. Digital cultural capital
“Where digital
communication has
fractured the tyranny of
distance and computers
have become pervasive and
ubiquitous, identification
through digital mediation
has become the new
cultural capital”.
- Wheeler (2009)
http://www.coreideas.com.au/

35. http://i125.photobucket.com
[SMS is
dumbing down
the English
Language]

37. Language is organic
www.socialedge.org

38. “The ethos of 50 years
ago was that there was
one kind of English that
was right and
everything else was
wrong....There’s a new
kind of ethos now.”
~ David Crystal
Evolution of Language
http://www.utsa.edu
“The arrival of [new
technologies] all pulled
language in new
directions. But texting is
different”
~ David Crystal

39. Competition to write the Lord’s
Prayer in <160 characters
r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u
rain ear as in evan. giv us r
needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r
nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4
ur always the most xlent dude.
yo

40. “Mobile phones are forcing children to become
more literate. Without the ability to txt, they
cannot fully participate in their own culture of
communication”
Peter Yeomans (2010)
‘Squeeze txt’ and literacy

41. [All technology is neutral]
http://www.oldukphotos.com
The old debate between Clark and Kozma over
whether technology has the potential to change
the way we learn…

42. http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter
… and some wisdom from Marshal McLuhan on
the power of technology to shape our
perceptions and behaviour.

43. Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/
Intuitive handheld devices
Natural gesture
interface
Connection to my
learning network

44. Learning
is changing
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

45. [Wikipedia is
untrustworthy]

46. Who can you trust online?
http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png
http://www.themodernman.com

47. “60% of all Internet
pages contain
misleading
information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

48. “Knowledge that
is acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold
on the mind.”
- Socrates

49. “Knowledge that
is acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold
on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato

50. “Knowledge that
is acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold
on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

51. “Knowledge that
is acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold
on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

52. “Knowledge that
is acquired under
compulsion
obtains no hold
on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
Through iteration, editing, deletion, addition
and reworking, we witness the survival of the
fittest content online.

53. Wikipedia is
crowdsourcing
evaluation

54. Community as curriculum
Folksonomies emerge based on the desire of the
community. This bottom-up approach ensures that
content that is important to the community becomes
the most prominent…

55. [Twitter is all about breakfast]http://www.lythhillhouse.com/breakfast.html

56. Twitter as a library
Twitter as a street corner
Twitter as a broadcast channel
Twitter as amplification

57. What my students said about Twitter...
http://jcbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-twitter.html

58. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
[The Internet is dangerous]

59. 25 million views 46 million views
447 million views51 million views
Content goes viral when it is useful, funny, entertaining,
shocking or otherwise resonant to the community.

60. Sometimes content can be ambiguous, or subject to
subtle changes that are difficult for some to detect…

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

62. We know that there are two thousand
elements which we cannot use to make a good
light bulb.
“We know that
there are two
thousand
elements which
we cannot use to
make a good light
bulb.”
-Thomas Edison[Failure is a bad
thing]

63. “All too often today
we are giving
young people cut
flowers when we
should be teaching
them to grow their
own plants.”
- John W Gardner
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg
http://www.newcastle.edu.au

65. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:
International Licence.
Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom