Education

Today and Tomorrow

Web 2.0:

Imagine the Possibilities

Knowledge is specific content

Learners are empty vessels to be filled

with knowledge

Knowledge is created

Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift

Horizon Report 2007Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content

Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds

Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Tools for Collaboration

Communication

Distribution

Organization

Communication

Social Networks

Instant Messaging, VoIP and Video Conferencing in one simple to use

package

Blogs

Distribution

Flickr/Picasa Share image collections

Slideshare Upload and share presentations

Wikis wikispaces pbwiki

Podcasts

YouTube--TeacherTube

Invention of the Year, 2006

Organization Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us)

Storing, sharing bookmarks--search by tags to find useful Internet research links.

The Penntags project at the University of Pennsylvania (http://tags.library.upenn.edu/)

Harvard’s H2O (http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do)

Social Calendaring Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning

RSS Reader

Personalized homepage

Tools for Collaboration

Blogs

Wikis

Podcasts

What are Blogs?

Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages

Automated updating Reverse chronological postings May accommodate responses

Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs

http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/

Limited Only by Your Imagination

Instructors Content-related blog as

professional practice Networking and personal

knowledge sharing Instructional tips for

students Course announcements

and readings Annotated links

Students Reflective or writing journals

Assignment submission and review

Dialogue for groupwork E-portfolios Share course-related resources

Sample Educational Blogs

Online Research Blog eCornell Research Blog

Info-Commons Blog commons-blog

Educational Bloggers Network EBN blog

Science Blog Science Blog

Wikis: The ultimate collaboration tool

Special web site allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change

content Not need access to or knowledge of web

publishing software Collaboration

Group members work on common document

in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by

Anyone

Wiki’s in Education

Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw

Advanced Artificial

Intelligence: Sean Luke

Harvard Law School

Eckerd College

Wikibooks

Boston College

Gerald Kane, assistant professor of information systems post papers on the wiki to be reviewed by other

students before turn in for grade Create own exam questions and answers—post

on wiki for peer editing (pool of 350 questions) Easily update information as world events

change—collaborative effort

-Computerworld, 2007

Horizon Projecthttp://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/

Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations

Camilla, GA (10th grade)

Vienna, Austria (11th grade)

Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)

Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)

Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

Podcasting

Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio

Automatically delivered to player –don't have to click on a link to download

Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

Why is podcasting appealing for learning and

teaching?

Appeals to the digital natives

Easy and low cost create distribute

Caters to different learning styles

Advantages Students

Review lectures before exams Listen in on classes they've missed Replay at own convenience Non-native speakers replay to increase

comprehension

Instructors Listen to own lectures to improve

presentations

Learning & Teaching Applications

Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios /

placement logs

Universities Podcasting iTunes U

(http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/) Duke University University of Illinois Stanford UC Berkley

Purdue Universityhttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/BoilerCast/

University of Washingtonhttp://www.css.washington.edu/