Digital Age Learning

Steve WheelerInstitute of EducationPlymouth University

United Kingdom

Digital Age LearningThe Changing Face of Digital Learning

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“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

- Albert Einstein

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Surface Learning

Deep Learning

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Source: Marton and SaljoGraphic by Steve Wheeler

Strategic Learning

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Cognition

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

Critical

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Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

ENGAGEMENT

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Graphic by Steve Wheeler

Quiz question: When was the first attempt at distance learning ?

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Image sources: Wikimedia Commons

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1968: Stanford

Instructional TV Network

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http://www.spacetoday.org

http://www.gamersmint.com

http://www.techdigest.tv

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“This is for everyone”

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Funnels of Webs

“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional

inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment

of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.” Illich (1972)

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Funnels or Webs?

My PLE

My e-portfolio

My PLN

Other Tools

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Personal Learning Environments


Personal Learning Environment

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

Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

XC

Embedded MOOCs?

The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’

hof.povray.org

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Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially.

Larry Downes

Law of Disruption

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The Future...?

• 1989: ‘The future is multi-media’• 1999: ‘The future is the Web’• 2009: ‘The future is smart mobile’hof.povray.org

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‘Change is not linear – it’s exponential’ - Kurzweil

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The First Mobile Phone

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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html

Social Media use in 2013

>1.15 Billion (>100 billion connections)

>500 Million >238 Million

>14 million articles

>6 Billion images (87 Million users)

Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com (Correct in Feb/March 2013)

3.5 Billion views/day60 hours/minute

>500 Million

>139 Million(55 million posts per day)

http://econsultancy.com/

Personal Learning NetworksPhoto by Steve Wheeler





I store my knowledge with my friends

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Connectivism Paragogy Distributed Cognition

http://youtu.be/I5YkxQJXt7c

Ubiquitous connection

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Students taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen

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http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/

“I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.”

– Seymour Papert Stev

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We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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We learn by making (Papert, 1960)Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Learning by making

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg

Blogging and Tweeting

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We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

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Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Flow Channel

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SKILLSLow High

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Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi, 1991


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Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi (1991) and Killi (2009)

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Beyond my reach

What I can learn with help(ZPD)

ZPD and scaffolding

What I can learn on my

own

Technology and toolsKnowledgeable others

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Zone of Proxim

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Adapted from: Csikszentmihalyi (1991) and Killi (2009)


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Computers as ‘mind tools’ for the engaging of learners in critical thinking

- David Jonassen

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Learning 2.0

CurationCollaborating

Sharing and Amplifying

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging and Bookmarking

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Aggregation

‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

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http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him an iPhone.”

- Abraham Lincoln (on the ‘selfie’)

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“60% of all Internet pages

contain misleading

information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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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 presention• Transliteracy

http://www.mopocket.com/

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Leaning 2.0 – Digital Literacies

Mastery

Literacies

Competencies

Skills

Graphic by Steve Wheeler (2013)

Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Con

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Adapted from : Nova Spivak

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Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Con

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The (Smart) eXtended Web

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

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- SocratesPlato

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- SocratesPlato


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- SocratesPlato


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“All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

- John W. Gardner

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Photo by Joyce Seitzinger