The shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning

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The Shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning

Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project3.26.12 Monterey InstituteEmail: [email protected]: @Lrainie

Broadband facilitates networked information

Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing

Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations

New kinds of learners emerge

Digital Revolution 1Internet (80%) and Broadband at home (66%)

71%

66%

Internet users – 80%

Broadband at home – 64%

Networked creators are everywhere (two-thirds of adults; three-quarters of teens)

• 66% of int. users are social networking site users• 55% share photos• 37% contribute rankings and ratings• 33% create content tags • 30% share personal creations • 26% post comments on sites and blogs• 15% have personal website• 15% are content remixers • 14% are bloggers• 13% use Twitter• 6% location services – 9% allow location

awareness from social media – 23% maps etc.

56% of adults own laptops – up from 30% in 2006

44% of adults own MP3 players – up from 11% in 2005

52% of adults own DVRs – up from 3% in 2002

42% of adults own game consoles

19% of adults own e-book readers - Kindle

19% of adults own tablet computer - iPad

Broadband facilitates networked information

Links and multimedia

Self-paced learning

Analytics

Pervasivemedia

Digital Revolution 2:Mobile phones – 88% of adults

327.6Total U.S.

population:315.5

million

2011

Digital devices

Millennials (18-34)

Gen X (35-46)

Younger Boomers

(47-56)

Older Boomers

(57-65)

Silent Generation

(66-74)

G.I. Generation

(75+)

All online adults (18+)

Cell phone 96% 94% 87% 84% 77% 52% 88%

Desktop computer 55% 67% 62% 61% 48% 29% 57%Laptop computer 70% 63% 58% 49% 32% 14% 56%iPod or MP3 player 69% 57% 36% 24% 10% 5% 44%Game console 63% 63% 38% 19% 8% 3% 42%e-Book reader 19% 25% 18% 12% 9% 5% 19%Tablet, like iPad 23% 23% 16% 14% 8% 3% 19%

Smartphones – 46%

Changes in smartphone ownership

Cell phones as connecting tools

2/22/2011 17

% of cell owners

• 64% send photo or video– Post video 25%

• 55% access social net. site• 30% watch a video • 11% have purchased a product• 11% charitable donation by text • 60% (of Twitter users) access

Twitter

Texting takes off and talking slips

Apps – 50% of adults

Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations

New access points to knowledge (AAA)

Real-time sharing, just-in-time searching

Augmented reality

Pervasive, perpetual awareness of socialnetworks

Attention zones morph

Digital Revolution 3Social networking – 52% of all adults

% of internet users

Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing

Elevates DIY learning in soc.nets

Increases the role of social networks in learning

Facilitates rise of amateur experts

Changes character of soc.nets

In the midst of all this, what’s

happening with learning?

Teacher research

• Teachers are teched-up personally and in class– Bloggers, SNS, Twitter users, Wikipedia

• Divided about their aptitude vs. students• Tech makes students fundamentally different

now in capacities and learning styles• Tech has good/bad impacts on students’ lives

– Media savvy / sharing / immersive / broadening– Distracted / less-info savvy / prone to shortcuts

Good news for new methodsPresidents Predict the Future of Online Learning% saying more than half of their undergraduate students have taken/will be taking an online class

Not-so-good newsPublic Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom

In general, do you think a course taken only online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

College presidents weigh inPresidents’ Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom

Generally speaking, do you believe a course taken online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

New kinds of learners emerge

More self-directedBetter arrayed to capture new info

More reliant on feedback and response

More inclined to collaboration

More oriented towards being nodes of production

What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”

New: Learning as a process

Knowledge is objective and

certain

Old: Learning as transaction

Knowledge is subjective and

provisional

New: Learning as a process

Learners receive knowledge

Old: Learning as transaction

Learners create knowledge

What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”

New: Learning as a process

Knowledge is organized in stable, hierarchical

structures that can be treated

independently of one another

Old: Learning as transaction

Knowledge is organized “ecologically”-disciplines are integrative and

interactive

What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”

New: Learning as a process

Our “intelligence” is based on our

individual abilities

Old: Learning as transaction

Our “intelligence” is based on our

learning communities

What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”

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• Stanford CS221 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig • Google X, a lab created to incubate the company’s

most ambitious and secretive projects. He was also free to pursue outside ventures.

• In a few slides, he’d spelled out the nine essential components of a university education: admissions, lectures, peer interaction, professor interaction, problem-solving, assignments, exams, deadlines, and certification.