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How Web 2.0 may change teaching and learning
Tom FranklinFranklin Consulting
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What is the Web 2.0 / Social Web
http://www.shambles.net/web2/images/web2logolarge.jpg
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What technology?
this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in learners because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The [thing] which you have invented is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your students not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be wise and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
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Socrates
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Does Technology Change Education?
Writing Printing Internet
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Possibilities
Knowledge creation Knowledge sharing Personal control
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Knowledge creation - wikis
Encyclopaedias Collaborative working
What you can do now Group project recording Course handbooks
Issues Control Ownership Plagiarism
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Knowledge creation - Social bookmarking
Reading lists Memory aid Sharing Finding
What you can do now Get students to rate /
review content Create a course tag Create a course account on
del.icio.us Course reading lists
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Knowledge sharing - blogs
Diaries Reflections Adverts Commentary Anything
What you can do Get students to comment on
each others course related blogs
Course announcements Course reading lists with
commentary
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Early blogging
The Talmud Discussion at a
distance Need not open up
discussion
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Knowledge sharing - bookmarking
Reading lists Memory aid Sharing Finding
What you can do now Get students to rate / review
content Create a course tag Create a course account on
del.icio.us Course reading lists
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Personal control
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So what?
Does Web 2.0 make a difference? What are those differences? What will inhibit those changes What will facilitate those changes
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Does this make a difference?
Students are already Using Google Using Wikipedia Blogging Have Facebook accounts Sharing Not using library resources Creating knowledge "Mashing up" - across
courses, with other things
Institutions expect students to Use "approved" resources Use institutional resources Do their own work (except
where told to work as a group)
Respect authoritative sources
Consume knowledge Separate different modules Separate work and study
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Walled gardens
Students gain more control Who they work with
(inside and out) What they work with
(authoritative / Google) When and where they
work How they do it
(what artefacts they produce)
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Assessment
This is the killer! Assessment drives the curriculum
Can we change the nature of assessment?
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Web 2.0 and assessment
Assess the process rather than the artefact? Different types of artefact? Group work (who is the group?) Mash-ups?
BUT"A levels are the Gold Standard"
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Nature of knowledge
Epistemological shift From consumption to creation
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Web 2.0 is the answer to Socrates
writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And
the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question to one of them, the
speaker always gives one unvarying answer. And when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not
understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or
abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves.
