the future of learning: don't get caught with your paradigm down

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The Future of LearningDon’t get caught with your paradigm down

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Anne Whaits, Academic Manager

Principals’ institute March-May 2012Sponsored and Hosted by Varsity College, South Africa

http://www.v3im.com/2012/03/mobile-devices-powering-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/#axzz1qEhi36Sy

Key Technology Game-ChangersMOBILE DEVICES

CONNECTIVITY WEB APPLICATIONS

SOCIAL (and Learning) NETWORKS ACCESS TO INFORMATION

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http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2417

Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility have spawned a New Kind of Learner

and changed the context of learning… Lee Reiner of Pew Research Centre

The Context of Learning is Changing

It’s time to shift our thinking from

the old model of teachingto a new model of learning

Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown

A New Culture of Learning

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Ten insights on the future of learning in a digital age

Anywhere, AnytimeOpen

MobileConnected

SocialPersonalLifelong

Adaptive Inquiry-basedCollaborativeAnd its implications for Education

#1 The future of learning is…anywhere anytime24/7 Access to Information

Create….Collaborate….Communicate/Sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ0nlh5FU5A

“We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world’s information. This has never before been possible. “Eric SchmidtExecutive Chairman

http://androidcommunity.com/

When you “Google” something, your search findings are NOT necessarilyTRUE

CREDIBLEYOURSFREE

Need to Build Search Skills

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

instaGrok: a new way to learnA search engine just for education

http://www.instagrok.com/

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

WolframAlpha: a computational knowledge engine

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/Teachers-and-Parents-Guide-to-Web-Search.html

#2 The future of learning is … OpenOER, Creative Commons, MOOC, TED-Ed, EdX…

http://www.oercommons.org/

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://ed.ted.com/

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Hidden in the cloud

WEB 2.0Technology enhanced learning

Image Source: nickrate: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickrate/4504163196/in/photostream/

http://edshelf.com/

#3 The future of learning is… MobileSmart Phones, Tablets, Laptops, eReaders, iPods

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/50-resources-for-ipad-use-in-the-classroom/16126

Revolutionising Education: iPads in South African Schools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI5_puX7YbU

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/04/taking-advantage-of-disruptive-technology-in-the-classroom/

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=51894

QR Codes in the Classroom

#4 The future of learning is… Connectedthrough Broadband to Knowledge Nodes & Networks

http://www.danpontefract.com/?p=982

#3#5 The future of learning is… SocialSocial Learning Networks/Environments/Communities

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More reliant on feedback from peers

More inclined to collaborate

Freely share with peers

Generate content in the informal learning environment

More easily capture and disseminate information

More prone to self-directed (informal)

learning

Choose their own personal web tools

Responsive to gaming

Connected through Social Mediaand mobiie devices

Informal Social Learning

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Learning 2.0

User generated

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Architecture of participation

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

Creativity

Reflective writing

Secure social learning network for teachers and studentshttp://www.edmodo.com/

Formal Social Learning

Source: Dr Alec Couros http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/towards-digital-fluency

#6 The future of learning is…Personal (PLEs, PLNs, PWTs)

Personal Learning Environments

PersonalLearning Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

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

PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs

are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &

more formal contexts.

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

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http://www.thinglink.com/scene/244989115295072258

http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/will-the-real-4cs-please-stand-up-again/Source Tony Gurr

# 7 The future of learning is…. Lifelong Authentic Relevant Skills for the 21st Century

http://education-2020.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Learninghttp://education-2020.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Learning

#8 The future of learning is… AdaptiveFlipped Classroom Approach, Play-based & Game-based Learning

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/04/15-serious-games-aiming-to-change-the-world/

The Flipped Classroom Approach

http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/mobile-learning-and-the-flipped-classroom-the-full-picture/

http://www.bie.org/about/what_is_pbl/

#9 The future of learning is… Inquiry-BasedProject/Problem-Based Learning

http://pogil.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfT_hoiuY8w

#10 The future of learning is… Collaborativethrough active learning communities

http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/getting-fluent-with-the-5-fluencies%E2%80%A6/ Source: Tony Gurr

This will require Global Digital Citizenship

Digitally Literate and Digitally Fluent

Web users need to develop new ‘literacies’

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Social networking (Netiquette)

Privacy maintenanceIdentity managementCreating contentOrganising contentReusing and repurposingFiltering and selecting Critical literaciesNew copyrightSelf broadcasting

Guide to Digital Citizenship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oCkTmZ0bF5Q

http://www.cyberwise.org/

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As Learner and Innovator

Teacher as Learner and Innovator

Models & demonstrates collaborative learning, 21st Century Skills, Digital Fluencies, PLNs, learning communities Designs authentic learning tasks for active student engagement

Guide, mentor, learning architect, facilitator, project designer

Traditional Roles will Change Teacher as Learner, Guide, Mentor

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher

Pedagogy for the future of learning?

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InstructivismTeacher-centred and most talking

and thinking done by teacher

Passive students listening to knowledge

dissemination

ConstructivismFacilitating

learning through active student engagementConstructing

knowledge and learning through

experience

ConnectivismGuiding self directed,

inquiry-based learning through

collaborative learning

environments & digital learning

media. Connected and networked

learning & knowledge building

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Image Source:: http://education-2020.wikispaces.com/connectivism

A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Back to

the future?

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Email: awhaits@varsitycollege.co.zaVarsity College: www.varsitycollege.co.zaIIE: www.iie.ac.za

Anne WhaitsAcademic Manager