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Putting the 'learning' in
elearning:
The use of web, mobile
and digital technologies
to enhance learning
and teaching

Confusion 1
Why do we spend a lot of time supporting
literacy and numeracy – but take „netracy‟
for granted?

Confusion 2
Why do we ask learners to put away mobile
phones/ smart phones while we often moan
that we do not teach in classrooms with PCs
when we need them or have to wait for ages
to book the college‟s suite of laptops?

Confusion 3
Without supporting netracy why do we then
bemoan and criticize students who „cut and
paste‟ their way around an ever growing and
confusing online world?

Confusion 4
Why do we have written exams? At what
point in learners‟ lives will they ever have to
write like that, for that block of time?...

Confusion 5
… and … why do exam boards then take
written scripts and scan them in and
digitalize them for markers to share?

• Social media • Micro blogging
• Social bookmarking • Podcasting
• Weblogs • Folksonomies
• Wiki • Collaborative filtering
• Social networking • Web2.0
• Cloud computing • Web3.0
• Tag clouds

Where is the profession with all this?
“The lack of pedagogical guidance about
integrating tools for collaboration and
communication into one‟s classroom or
training session leaves educators across
educational settings with mounting
dilemmas and confusion.”
Bonk, C. J. and Cunningham, D. J. (1998) URL:
http://www.vpaa.uillinois.edu/tid/report/tid_report.html

HOMO ZAPPIENS
“Homo Zappiens represents a generation that
was born with a PC mouse in its hands
and a computer screen as a window to the
world. This generation has grown up with
technology and learns through computer
screens, icons, sound, games, exploration, qu
estioning others, and show non-linear learning
behaviour…Homo Zappiens have learnt to deal
with information overload by clicking and
zapping.”
Prof. Wim Veen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Who are you?
Who are your learners?
Digital natives?
Digital immigrants?
Are there other options?

Today‟s students have not just changed
incrementally from those of the past, nor simply
changed their slang, clothes, body adornments,
or styles, as has happened between generations
previously. A really big discontinuity has taken
place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an
event which changes things so fundamentally
that there is absolutely no going back. This so-
called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid
dissemination of digital technology in the last
decades of the 20th century.
(Prensky, M 2001 From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf

“ What should we call these “new” students of today?
Some refer to them as the N-[for Net]-gen or D-[for
digital]-gen. But the most useful designation I have found
for them is Digital Natives. Our students today are all
“native speakers” of the digital language of
computers, video games and the Internet.
So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who
were not born into the digital world but have, at some
later point in our lives, become fascinated by and
adopted many or most aspects of the new technology
are, and always will be compared to them, Digital
Immigrants.”
(Prensky, M 2001 From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf

2 constructions of childhood
Childhood 1 Childhood 2
• Construction of children • Children as expert users.
as in need of safety. • Children surpassing adults
• To be protected from the and teachers as digitally
dangers of adults in an competent.
online world. • (Uncomfortable) Re-
positioning of
teachers/parents/adults as
learners.
• Children as agents of
change?
• Adults (teachers?) being left
behind?

„Edu-tainment‟?

Where are you with this?
How much are you a digital immigrant?
• What technology can you not live without?
• What technology scares and confuses you?
• What would you like to do/use, but
havent/cant/dont think you can?
• What technology seduces you the most?
Activity: 3-5 minutes.

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Task
Can you provide a definition of the
term „e-learning‟?
Activity: 3 minutes

Task
How much do we already know/use?
Define the key terms provided on the next slide.
TIP: say what they are (what they „do‟); not
examples (unless you have to)
Activity: 5 minutes

Delicious Asynchronous
Tag Bubbl.us
VLE RSS feed
MLE Drop box
Ning Google.doc
Yammer Vodcast
Wimbar M Learning
Google Jockeying Poll
Wordle Rich media
Synchronous Facebook
„backchanneling‟ Avatar
AudioBoo
Prezi

The „Flipped
Classroom‟?

E-Learning 2.0?
• The term e-Learning 2.0 is used to refer to new ways of
thinking about e-learning inspired by the emergence of
Web2.0 technologies and platforms and the rise of social
media.
• This new e-learning places increased emphasis on
social learning and use of social networking and social
software such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and virtual
worlds such as second life.

B.Y.O.D

• elearning?
• M-learning?
• Blended learning?
• Ubiquitous learning?

Warnings
Carr, 1999:
“Without appropriate pedagogy, use of
high capacity communication services
cannot provide significant improvements in
learning outcomes. In general, it is the
pedagogy that provides for learning, not
the technology or the software alone.”
Carr, J. (1990) The Future is already Here. URL: http://www.educationau.edu.au/archieves/Broadband/Report.htm

2009 OfSTED report
„Virtual learning environments: an evaluation
of their development in a sample of
educational settings‟

Virtually no
Learning
Environments

See the 31 resources and activities here:
http://allthingsteachereducation.blogspot.c
o.uk/2012/10/elearning-ideas.html
22 things to explore in the above post…
… and a further 9 more in this one below…
http://allthingsteachereducation.blogspot.co.
uk/2013/01/further-elearning-ideas-
another-9.html

1 of 12 Bit.ly
https://bitly.com/

2 of 12 Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/

3 of 12 Text2mind
http://www.text2mindmap.com/

4 of 12 AudioBoo
http://audioboo.fm/

5 of 12 SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/

6 of 12 Delicious
http://delicious.com/

7 of 12 Yammer
https://www.yammer.com/

8 of 12 kaywa
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

9 of 12 Spiderscribe
http://www.spiderscribe.net/

10 of 12 Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/

11 of 12 Interloc
http://www.interloc.org.uk/index.htm

12 of 12 Pininterest
http://pinterest.com/

You are required to produce a
written answer to the following
question:
Identify and critically evaluate the
adoption of a new or emerging
technology to enhance learning in
the classroom or beyond.

This module seeks to extend
your knowledge of New and
Emerging Technologies and
how these might be used to
develop and enhance
teaching and learning in
your professional context.

For the purpose of this assignment, „New and Emerging Technologies‟
might be considered to include a wide range of Mobile, Online and
Web2.0 tools and platforms:
•Learning platforms (MLE/VLE e.g. Moodle or Fronter which are similar
to UEL Plus but used by many schools)
•Mobile technologies
•Podcasts
•Survey software (e.g. surveymonkey)
•Social Bookmarking (e.g. Diigo)
•RSS (using aggregators such as Google Reader)
•Wikis (e.g. pbworks)
•Google docs
•Video conferencing
•Performance Analysis software
•Digital cameras
•Blogs (e.g. Edublog) and microblogging (e.g. Yammer)
•Gaming
•Music technologies
•GPS
...and there will be many others that could be added to this list.

The „new and emerging technology‟ in
question that you chose to focus upon for
this assignment could be a piece of
hardware (such as a video camera or a
mobile/smart phone), a Web2.0 tool (such
as a wiki or a blog), an online managed
environment/platform (such as a Virtual
Learning Environment (VLE)) or a form of
connectivity (such as the use of Geo-
Tagging or Really Simple Syndication
(RSS) feeds).

Beetham and Sharpe (2007)
“Pedagogy before
technology”
Beetham, H. and Sharpe, R. (2007) Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Designing and Delivering e-Learning.
London: Routledge.