the digital landscapeimplications for teaching and learning

Our values and norms in education are being challenged by a shifting landscape of media and communications in which youth are central actors.

gather, communicate, share, collaborate, play

buzzwords

Social Media

social media tools

Web 2.0

MUVEs: multi-user virtual environmentsNarrative environments : game style worldsVirtual worldsSocial & professional networksSharing & collaborative spacesAggregation & storageProducts & services [e-commerce]Information sources

In these spaces, people:// run businesses & engage in e-commerce// live, love & learn// create & construct// play, trade & socialise// make their voices heard

virtual spaces

web as participatory platform‘us-ness’ | community | participation

so plugged in, yet so disconnected

“We [need to] use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them – that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create.”M. Wesch

awash with stuff

what would education look like if it resembled the culture?

current technology demands a totally different approach to instructional design and teaching methodology

it requires new skills from both teacher and student

What’s important: the properties and dynamics of social media – not the tools – and how to evolve with them.

social media matters in education

Being able to access the internet; find, manage and edit digital information; join in communications; and engage with an online information and communications network impact on a person’s potential to communicate and learn.

digital age literacy

Learning spaces.

The delivery & distribution of learning.

21st Century Education

From prescriptive to connective practices.

Who participates in the learning process.

Rethinking the who, what, where & when of learning.

// Trying to protect students and instructional time by banning Web 2.0 or setting policies to keep it “safe.”

// Preserving existing programs and practices by using technology in a way that “fits” into what is already in place.

// Taking a progressive approach by allowing technology to transform the organisation rather than moving it faster and further on its existing path.

responding to opportunites & challenges

Teachers are the learning professionals and catalysts. When you put them in the mix with new technology,

you get powerful outcomes.