The Future of Learning:Web 2.0 and the Smart eXtended Web

LearnTEC, Karlsruhe, Germany: 2 February 2011

The Future...?

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It is very difficult to predict the future. It’s difficult to even

predict what will happen in the next

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The Future...?

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When he saw a demonstration of the telephone in

1880, a U.S Mayor declared: “One day

every town in America will have a

telephone!”

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Here’s a problem for teachers:

“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” - David Warlick

http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

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Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

20% 80%

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

Shouldn’t we now start to blend formal and informal learning?

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www.newmediamusings.com

Is learning simply about gaining knowledge...? St

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... or about making connections?

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Funnels and Webs

Ivan Illich

http://zumu.com

One size does not

fit all

Participation, not passive reception of knowledge

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“It's not what you know that counts anymore. It's what you can learn.”

– Don Tapscott

http://www.nationalpost.com

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Connections to your community

of practice

Digital Natives?

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The Net Generation?

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We shouldn’t be categorising learners like this!

Digital Natives?

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Net Generation?

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Expectations

Needs

.....are not the same as...

Learners enjoy learning when it’s engaging and fun!

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Engaging and fun!

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Serious gamesInteractive narratives

Role play simulationsMassively Online Role Playing Games

anytime

personalised

anyplacehttp://ithalas.com

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Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting

http://www.mopocket.com/

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Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting

http://www.mopocket.com/

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The new web environments are game

changers. learners now need new

(digital) literacies

Personalised Learning?

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http://www3.ntu.edu.sg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/

Personalised Learning?

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

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Personal Learning Environments

PersonalLearning Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs

are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &

more formal contexts.

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

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Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

Intuitive handheld devices

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Natural gesture interface

Connection to my learning network

Connection

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http://i.imwx.com

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

Communication

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Collaboration

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‘The wisdom of crowds’

Common interests and purpose

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

The ‘Architecture of Participation’

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From ‘sticky’ to participative

Web 2.0

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Social Media use

>500 Million

>100 Million >50 Million

>125 Million

>14 million

articles>4 Billion images

Source: http://econsultancy.com

2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute

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Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Architecture of Participation

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of Participation

Tagging

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Blogging

http://www.volusion.com/

In the act of writing... ...we are written.

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http://www.lifehack.org

Blogging on the move to capture images, sounds, experiences

Moblogging

Microblogging

http://www.xenstudio.co.uk

Retweeting is not repetition. It is amplification.

- Steve Wheeler

Microblogging has potential for the future of learning -

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- if we see it as a newcommunication Channel

- Ebner et al

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Media Sharing

http://flickr.com/photos/22409393@N03/4348233990/

Video, audio and images ...

... all contribute to the richness of the narrative.

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http://media1.break.com/

Collaborative tools

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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

Social Learning

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We can use computers to extend

the capabilities of our own minds. They

can become the repositories of our

knowledge.http://www.phillwebb.net

Social Learning

Computers as mind tools

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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

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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

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Learning to learn

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Creativity

Reflection

Evaluation

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Web 1.0: Anything can link to anything

Source: Sabin-Corneliu Buraga www.localseoguide.com

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www.ballroom-dance-chicago.blogspot.com/

Web 2.0: User

participation

Source: Sabin-Corneliu Buraga

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Web 3.0: Existing data re-connected

for other (smarter) uses

Adapted from : Sabin-Corneliu Buraga http://farm4.static.flickr.com

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Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

Deg

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Con

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Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

Deg

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Con

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The eXtended Web

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http://www.csmonitor.com

Camera

Coloured caps

Coloured caps

Mirror

Projector

Phone blogs.fayobserver.com

MIT’s “Sixth Sense” Wearable...

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http://xenophilius.files.wordpress.com

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Natural user interfaces

Non touch systems

Gestural interaction

Facial feature recognition

Speech to text

We are already seeing early evidence of the Smart eXtended Web

http://chemistscorner.com

Intelligent Filtering Recommender systems

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Thank you!

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Picture by Helen Keegan

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