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Connectivity, Mobility and Personalisation: Understanding the Next Generation of Learners
Informa The Future of Learning
Park Royal, Darling Harbour, Sydney February 24-25, 2015
Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN
Overviewn Next-generation learners !
n Personalising and customising learning experiences
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n User-generated content as a form of expression and a means of social learning
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n The expectation of seamless, mobile learning opportunities.
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Next-Generation Learners
Dynamic Landscape
Horizon Report
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Interactive learning (learner-to-content)
Networked learning (learner-to-learner; learner-to-teacher)
Student-generated content (learner-as-designers).
Connected students (knowledge is in the network)
Learning-oriented assessment (assessment-as-learning)
Interactions
Personalising and Customising Learning
Experiences
CharacteristicsnDigital citizenship nSeamless learning nLearner engagement/
self-regulated learning nLearning-oriented
assessment nLifelong and life-wide
learning nDesire paths
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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/
Europe - Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2012n73% of EU households had access to the
internet nA lack of skills is the second most important
reason for not having access to the internet nOnly 53% of the labour force - confident that
they had sufficient digital skills to change jobs. nAge, gender, and education remain the key
challenges. nhttp://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-
agenda/files/scoreboard_digital_skills.pdf !!!
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Wheeler Digital Literacies
n Social networking skills n Transliteracy skills n Maintaining Privacy n Managing Identity n Creating content n Organising and sharing content n Reusing/repurposing content n Filtering and selecting content n Self broadcasting
!!http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html
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Cognitive
TechnicalSocial-
Emotional
Information literacy Critical literacy Multi-literacies
Socio-emotional literacy
Critical literacy
Operational literacy
Critical literacy
Digital literacy
NG (2012)
Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers & Education 59 (2012) 1065–1078
Digital Literacies
nLiteracy is no longer “the ability to read and write” but now “the ability to understand information however presented.”
nCan't assume students have skills to interact in a digital age (JISC, 2012)
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ADFI Major Projectsn Digital Futures - Collaborative Research Network
n Regional Universities Network (RUN) Maths and Science Digital Classroom: A Connected Model for all of Australia
n Aged Care Community, Education, Research & training (ACCERT)
n Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA)
n Making the Connection: Improving access to Higher Education for Low SES Students with ICT Limitations project
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Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)
What is Digital Identity?
nSafe and engaged digital citizenship
nAppropriate and responsible technology use
nDigital wellness
nhttp://digitalcitizenship.net/Home_Page.html
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What is Digital Identity?nHow you portray,
represent yourself online
nRich ways of communication
nDigital etiquette
nDigital ethics
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Digital Identity Spaces
Digital Footprints/Tattoo
I can see a day in the not too distant future (if it’s not already here) where your “digital footprint” will carry far more weight than anything you might include in a resume or CV (Betcher, 2009)
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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/digitalfootprint/
Lifelong & Life-wide Learningn Encompasses both formal
and informal learning, self-motivated learning..(Watson, 2003).
n Life-wide learning “recognises that an individual’s life contains many parallel and interconnected journeys and experiences...”
n (Jackson, 2010, p. 492).
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E-portfoliosn Space for personal learning
n Populated by the learner
n Supports learning not assessment
n For life-long and life–wide learning
n Able to present multiple stories of learning
n Access is controlled by the learner
n http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/about.asp
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Seamless Learning
Seamless Learning
Continuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings (Sharples, et al, 2012).
Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
Outdoor Professional Practice
Distributed Learning Spaces
Academic
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Virtual Learning Spaces
Learning-oriented Assessment
Learning-oriented Assessment
Assessment tasks as learning
tasks
Student involvement in
assessment processes
Forward-looking feedback
Forward-looking FeedbacknStudents need to receive appropriate feedback which they can use to ‘feed forward’ into future work.
nFeedback should be less final and judgemental (Boud, 1995)
nFeedback should be more interactive and forward-looking (Carless, 2002; Keppell 2005)
nFeedback should be timely and with a potential to be acted upon (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)
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Desire Paths
http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/19/desire-paths-in-web-ui/
New MindsetsnPrivileging mobile learning and
teaching access
nEmbedding digital literacies into all aspects of curriculum, learning, teaching and assessment.
nPrivileging diverse places of learning as opposed to a singular place of learning
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New MindsetsnAssisting teachers and students
to develop their own personalised learning strategy
nPrivileging user-generated content
nNew forms of assessment that are more learning-oriented
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Learning begins on the edge of your comfort zone
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