Create, connect, collaborate…Learning in new dimensions
#pelc12
What new literacies and skills will teachers and learners need?
What will the benefits and limitations be?
Do learners change because of changing demands from society?
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Something Better ChangeSimon Finch ; @simfin
Teaching for learners who will be challenged to be successful in 2025.
Challenges that teachers face: Ever changing technologies, a lot of change in the last decade. Maybe more than ever.
Why no try to make the most of the things (resources) that we´ve got around? And build a network (PLN) to communicate and share best practices.
Kery Facer@kerileef , [email protected]
We cannot predict the future of Educational Technologies. What is needed is finding the important strong points in the present and use these to develop the future.
We shouldn’t look at what will emerge – we should look at what we have – and try to build on these for the good of learning and learners.
Digital infrastructure that gives teachers and students place for play, wonder and
collaboration.
Open Content & Connected LearningDr. Alec Courous @courosa
If you limit Internet to googling and gossiping, you´re missing the best part of it
Knowledge• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we know?
• why do we know what we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
Why Personal Learning Networks
• As learners or teachers, we need to be surrounded by people, “learning with others and from others” facilitated by the tools of PLN.
• Barriers: power issue, sense of control and fear of failure.
Skills• Be critical readers, become discerning readers on the
WEB! (digital literacy)
• Social learning: learn collaboratively (PLN), use collaborative platforms responsively (digital identity).
• Media (text, video, images) literacy: produce one´s Produce stuff for an audience other than the teacher (relevance and authentic audience).
• Be flexible with time a space: a cracking idea can happen not during the class period, and be put up in a blog!
New Literacies
Being adventurous
Creating ideas
Discussing with peers
Question things
Working with others
Being active
Imagining possible solutions
Showing initiative
Taking responsibility
Self-evaluating
Digital Native Myth & Digital Divide
Digital fluency
Where does all this leave us?
• What do we have at hand?
• What would we like to try out?
Social Media SNS
Open Education Content
Personal Learning Networks
Virtual Learning Environments BDSVC
Literacies: from information literacies to digital fluency
Digital identity
Social LearningMaking learning visible and
contribute to the learning of others
Open Education
Simon Finch – videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBMCkoozLg (minutes 5:27 – 7:28)