Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth, UK

http://www.cbc.ca

Knowledge or wisdom?

http://slated.org

You can easily teach knowledge, but wisdom can only be acquired through experience

“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”

~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee

www.topnews.in

“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”

~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee

www.topnews.inProblem based learning

Join all nine dotsUsing four straight Lines. Do not takeYour pen from the Paper and do not Go back over any Lines.

Try solving this problem...

a man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

Another problem to solve...

a man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

What is community?

Community......has been defined as a group of interacting

people living in a common location.

http://www.psfk.com

In the digital age, common location is not so important.

Digital Tribes

http://www.zimbio.com

Celebration

One tribe or many?

Connection

http://i.imwx.com

Online, En massehttp://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

Communication

The goal of education

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.”

– Dave Truss

Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

20% 80%Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.

The new blended learning challenge will be to try to harness the excitement of self organised learning within formal learning contexts

Funnels or Webs?

Ivan Illich

http://zumu.com

The ‘walled garden’ of the institutional LMS. Are we in danger of turning the web back into a funnel again?

Human activities are mediated by

culturally established instruments such as tools and language.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1978) Mind in Society: The development of higher

psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

http://www.phillwebb.net cc S

Social learning

Can we use technology to scaffold

learning?

Computers have better memories than students. Use them as

mind extensions. http://www.phillwebb.net cc

Mind Tools

What is the Social Web?

http://www.eastone.co.uk/

From ‘sticky’ to participative

The ‘Architecture of Participation’

Web 2.0

http://www.uksmallbusinesswebsites.co.uk

Social Media gives everyone a voice in the community

Shy students can contribute

Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of Participation

Tagging

Source: George Siemens www.connectivism.ca/http://www.sciencedaily.com

Connectivism

We live in a techno-social world

Learning occurs inside and outside of people – we store our knowledge in

computers and in other people – George Siemens

Making connections

In connectivism, learning involves creating connections and developing a network. It is

a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent properties, and self

organised learning.

(It’s not what you know but who you know)

Source: Wikipedia

http://www.pestproducts.com

Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people,

become the surrogate for knowledge.

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people. - Karen Stephenson

Web Tools?

My ten top Web 2.0 tools• Blog• Wiki• Podcasting• Slide sharing• Photo sharing• Social Tagging• Video sharing• URL Shortening• Aggregator• Microblog

• Blogger; Wordpress • Wetpaint; PBwiki• Audacity; Podbean• Slideshare• Flickr; Picassa• Delicious, Diigo• Youtube; Vimeo• bit.ly; ow.ly• iGoogle; Pageflakes• Twitter; Tumblr

Think...

• How can you create social spaces for your own students?

• What tools/services could you use?• How would this transform your teaching?• What problems might there be?

Wisdom of Crowds...

Stupidity of Mobs

Digital cultural capital – membership of ‘the Tribe’

“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/

Social ‘tagging’

Using your post-its... ...label 3 or 4 things in the room you consider to be significant

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Taxonomies are defined by the community

Folksonomies define a community cc

008 What

tools could you use?

Think...

• What would you use them for?• How would your learners use them?• What added value would they bring?• What might be the problems?

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. - John Dewey

http://www.dancinghearts.org

Thank you!

E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: steve-wheeler.blogspot.comT: @timbuckteeth

Picture by Helen Keegan

Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age

Technology

Productive pedagogies

Inclusive Pedagogies

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Place and spaces — ePortfolio in the curriculum€™s Learning Cycle • supports pedagogies across places and spaces • travels with the learner to future learning places and

Open Pedagogies

Progressive pedagogies

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Catalogue 2015 2016 local communities green and urban spaces B

3. New pedagogies

Developing Participatory Pedagogies

Catalogue 2015 2016 local communities green and urban spaces A

Learning Space - HKEdCityLearning Spaces Technology Pedagogy New Pedagogies •From instructivist teacher/content- centric •To constructivist learner/co-creator •To social-constructivist

Learning Spaces Sketchbook - Herman Miller Spaces Sketchbook Y. Creating a Campus Community New tools and pedagogies enable learning to happen anywhere, at …

Shulman Signature Pedagogies

Knowledge, Communities and Virtual Spaces

Think Commons | Communities Creating Spaces

Shared Spaces - Using all kinds of technology to connect communities

Engaging communities in public spaces

Emerging Pedagogies, Learning Spaces and Communities

Narrative pedagogies