New Learning Environments Lecture

Being a student: New learning environments

Penelope [email protected], 2010

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Your favourite TV show

Your best friend

Your hobbies

Your favourite thing about school

Thinking back…

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Some things change?


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A vision of students today


They [digital natives] have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones and all the other toys and tools of the digital age…

It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants


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Digital natives & digital immigrants


Digital Immigrants find it hard to believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music, because they (the Immigrants) can’t.

Digital Natives think randomly, are able to multi-task, and concentrate in shorter and more intensive bursts.

Natives are always ‘on the move’

The digital divide


… our teachers who are digital immigrants see the technology as a series of ‘programs’ or ‘things’ or – in linguistic terms – nouns.

Today’s students, if they are ‘native speakers’ of digital technology view it in a very different way. They see technology as the means of getting things done: of communicating, of sharing, of presenting, etc. In linguistic terms our students see technology as verbs.

Marc Prensky

Net natives


Assumptions underlying Prensky’s view on students:

● All (young) students are ‘Digital Natives’.

● These ‘Digital Natives’ are an homogenous group.

● These ‘Digital Natives’ are more adept with technology than their teachers.

● Everyday skills with technology will easily translate into beneficial technology-based learning.

The problem with the problem


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The impossible will be possible

(New) learning environments


Home environment


My desk at homeImage: Penelope Coutas

Murdoch University Library, 2006


Library: Murdoch University Library, 2006Image: Murdoch Uni Library Australia http:/www.flickr.com

Murdoch University Library, 2006


Library: Murdoch University Library, 2006Image: Murdoch Uni Library Australia http:/www.flickr.com

Food in a library environment!


Library: Murdoch University, 2007Image: jens_wiese http://www.flickr.com

After hours access


Library: Murdoch University, 2007Image: Murdoch Uni Library http://www.flickr.com

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Library: Amsterdam Public LibraryImage: hblowers http:/www.flickr.com

Bush court learning environment


Bush Court, Murdoch University, 2010Image: Penelope Coutas

Outdoor classrooms


School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, UtahImage: DesignShare.com

Green spaces indoors


School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto,Monterrey, N.L., MexicoImage: DesignShare.com

School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto,Monterrey, N.L., MexicoImage: DesignShare.com

Early childhood education


School: Georgetown South Child Development and Community Center,Manassas, VirginiaImage: DesignShare.com


School: Chung Cheng High School,SingaporeImage: DesignShare.com

Outdoor study areas


School: Suzhou Singapore International School, Suzhou, ChinaImage: DesignShare.com

Modern playgrounds

Production studios


School: Cambridge Media Arts School, Cambridge, MassachutsettsImage: DesignShare.com


School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New YorkImage: DesignShare.com

Activity spaces

Auditoriums


School: New Saline High School, Saline MichiganImage: DesignShare.com

AudIToriums?



Personal Learning Environment

Personal Learning Network


What is true for you?


I have five or more friends who I met on the ‘net. I check my email first thing in the morning. When going out in town I check the web for suggestions/directions. I share my digital photos online for friends and family to see. I post comments on other people’s blogs. I have my own blog that I update regularly. I am a member of at least one social networking site. I often chat with friends/colleagues via instant messaging software. I often share amusing websites/videos with friends and family. I don’t watch live TV, but record it and watch it when I like. I met my partner online


Pimp your PLN!



Learning Management System


Messaging tools


Blogging


Blogging


Wikis


Real Simple Syndication


mlearning


Social networking


Social networking =/ educational networking


What’s happening?


Twitter(ing)


Twitter: Learn from others


What has their attention?

Learn from the influencers


Sharing and learning


Sharing and learning

http://twibbon.com/

Find like-minded users


Generated by Twitter Friend Wheel http://thomas-

fletcher.com/friendwheel/twitter/

A connected network



BackchannelForm a backchannel


Be aware (of what’s around you)


http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectacle_at_we.html

Well, I started out rough, but I was also totally off-kilter. And then, within the first two minutes, I started hearing rumblings. And then laughter. The sounds were completely irrelevant to what I was saying and I was devastated. I immediately knew that I had lost the audience. Rather than getting into flow and becoming an entertainer, I retreated into myself. I basically decided to read the entire speech instead of deliver it. I counted for the time when I could get off stage. I was reading aloud while thinking all sorts of terrible thoughts about myself and my failures. I wasn’t even interested in my talk. All I wanted was to get it over with. I didn’t know what was going on but I kept hearing sounds that made it very clear that something was happening behind me that was the focus of everyone’s attention.

danah boyd


Augmented reality


http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/augmented-realityhttp://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_augmented_reality_apps/

The ‘internet of things’

If you’re not seeing data, you’re not seeing.

Social media circa 2006


Social media 2009


Affordances and constraints


Communicating

Collaborating

Creating

The “C” in ICT


Funtwo playing “Canon Rock”, arranged by JerryC.

Read more about it:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?pagewanted=all

Communicating, collaborating, creating


Communicating, collaborating, creating

Funtwo playing “Canon Rock”, arranged by JerryC.

Read more about it:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?pagewanted=all


The digital divide is not just about access.

It is about also about participation.

The digital divide?


The digital divide?


The digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how.

Howard Rheingold

Time for a break!

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Where credits are not given, the images are my own.

Slide 2: Mobile phone image: Microsoft Office 2007 stock clipart collection.Slide 3: http://www.yearbookyourself.comSlide 7: Wesch, M. (2007). A Vision of Students Today. http://mediatedcultures.net/Slide 8: http://www.k12schoolnetworking.org/2007/images/speakers/Marc_Prensky.jpgSlide 9: Zits Cartoon htttp://www.arcamax.com/zitsSlide 11: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyefood/149368986Slides 12: Gavin DudeneySlides 15-22: Marco TorresSlide 26: Google Street View http://maps.google.comSlides 28-42: Image credits given on individual slides. Many adapted from a presentation by Matt Horne available on Slideshare.net: http://www.slideshare.net/esltechnology/school-design-be-the-changeSlide 43: Auditorium http://mackers-world.com/images/news/mac/lotsofmacs_mizzou_800.jpgSlide 44: The Year in Review, uploaded by jek in th ebox to Flickr

by jek in the box http://www.flickr.com/photos/jek-a-go-go/2157996339/sizes/o/Slide 45: Joyce SeitzingerSlide 58: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.comSlides 62 & 63: Paul FullerSlide 69: http://francisanderson.files.wordpress.com, http://blog.360dgrs.nl/, http://3dguy.tvSlides 71 & 72: Social media, uploaded by Meg Pickard to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/meg/3528372602/in/set-72157618229062033/Slide 73: http://www.toolking.com/media/catalog/product/1/8/18800025_1.jpg ; http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JNdIFdb0jFI/Smc0EyIZfII/AAAAAAAAAds/PnbD6dpZSyk/s400/cordless-drill-374.jpg ; http://www.exoticexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jimmy-Choo-Zero-Mirror-Leather-Platform-Sandals-2.jpgSlide 75: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4fIRjMf-MSlide 76: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5IoSlide 78: Howard Rheingold http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/24/howard1_wideweb__470x275,0.jpgSlide 79: http://www.icanhascheezburger.com

Media Credits

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

http://mediatedcultures.net/



http://www.k12schoolnetworking.org/2007/images/speakers/Marc_Prensky.jpg



http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyefood/149368986

http://maps.google.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/esltechnology/school-design-be-the-change

http://mackers-world.com/images/news/mac/lotsofmacs_mizzou_800.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jek-a-go-go/2157996339/sizes/o/

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

http://francisanderson.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/mini_augmented_reality.jpg

http://blog.360dgrs.nl/wp-content/uploads/3dbaseballjpg.jpeg

http://3dguy.tv/

http://3dguy.tv/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meg/3528372602/in/set-72157618229062033/

http://www.toolking.com/media/catalog/product/1/8/18800025_1.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JNdIFdb0jFI/Smc0EyIZfII/AAAAAAAAAds/PnbD6dpZSyk/s400/cordless-drill-374.jpg

http://www.exoticexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jimmy-Choo-Zero-Mirror-Leather-Platform-Sandals-2.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4fIRjMf-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5Io

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/24/howard1_wideweb__470x275,0.jpg

http://www.icanhazcheezburger.com/

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