Better Learning through Technology – Malta Workshop Teaching through Technology Vanessa Camilleri
Jul 15, 2015
Better Learning through Technology – Malta Workshop
Teaching through Technology
Vanessa Camilleri
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“Education must
begin with the
solution of the
teacher-student
contradiction, by
reconciling the poles
of the contradiction
so that both are
simultaneously
teachers and
students.”
- Paulo Friere
http://arts.anu.edu.au
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How we learn today, is not how we will learn tomorrow.
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Changing Trends in Education
Does education need transformation?
Source: Chambers English Dictionary
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
- Nietzschehttp://thescholasticdiary.wordpress.com
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Young people’s out-
of-school
experiences with
technology can
mean that students
find the presentation
of school curriculum
less challenging,
less relevant and
less engaging.
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• Imagination is more important than
knowledge – Einstein
• We need diversity of thought in the world
to face new challenges – Sir Tim Berners
Lee
What is happening around us?
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet
What is happening around us?
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Shifting Cultures
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Networked learning
“Understanding how
networks work is one
of the most important
literacies of the 21st
Century.”
- Howard Rheingold
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: Wikipediahttp://www.pestproducts.com
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Social Networks...
Redefine community,
friendship, identity, presence,
privacy, geography, power
relationships
Enable learning, connections,
collaboration, sharing,
exploration
Networks form around shared
interests, ideas and objects
Adapted from Couros, A. (2010)
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://strategicdc.com
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“We are seeing peer-based learning
networks where students are
learning as much from each other
as they are from their mentors and
tutors.”
– John Seely-Brown
Image source: http://businessinnovationfactory.com
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To conclude…
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As a teacher, use
the technology to
become an
network enabler
that provokes
serendipitous
encounters
leading to
learning.
Instead …
Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, 2011
Here's to the crazy
ones. The round pegs in
the square holes. The
ones who see things
differently.
And while some see
them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who
are crazy enough to
think they can change
the world, are the ones
who do.
THANK YOU!
Vanessa Camilleri
Email: [email protected]
Blog: https://seriouslyvirtual.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/veecam
LinkedIn: mt.linkedin.com/in/vanessacamilleri
Skype: vcami01