rethinking learning in the age of digital fluency
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Rethinking Learning in the age of digital fluency
ICT Integration Conference 2015 | Will IT blend?
Judy O’Connell14 October, 2015
Rethinking Learning in the age of digital fluency
Challenge
Challenge
"Gutenberg Parenthesis”
or ……Living the dream!
Eisenstadt (a Gutenberg scholar): the book did not take on its own form until 50 years after it was invented by Gutenberg. Printing was originally called "automatic
handwriting." [horseless carriage]
The Web at 25+ Overall verdict:
“The internet has been a plus for society and an especially good thing for individual users”
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/
Trends in knowledge construction and
participatory culture
nature and scope of knowledge
Technology context
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more than a ‘flipped classroom’ to ensure a pedagogical approach for co-construction of knowledge in a
digital information ecology
not just a discussion
about selfies
Robert Cornelius in 1839, believed to be the world's first selfie. Photograph: Library of Congress
digital footprint
chirp! a plant watering alarm
drone pilot locates missing 82-year-old man after three day search
not just a about the
latest technology
man accused of murder asked Siri where to hide the body
living replica of Vincent Van Goh’s ear
flickr photo by furiousgeorge81 http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
Igniting a new culture of learning
The great challenge of a digital education is meeting the connected creative needs of students who have grown up in the
digital era, and at the same time meeting the expectations of teachers and parents who haven’t!
a new learning nexus
digital
Doomsday Reloaded
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story
Lost collection of Andy Warhol art recovered from floppy disks
http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/warhol-art-recovered-amiga-disks/
Information architecture AND
digital fluency
Web 3.0
Web 1.0
Web x.0
Web 2.0
Semantic Web
The Web
Meta Web
Social Web
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The semantic web, or web 3.0, is all about data integration.
it is an infrastructure technology
and an organised approach to metadata
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you won’t see a “Web 3.0 inside’ label
Much more than just BIG DATA and cloud storage!
This socially powered web is exploding, and is the new baseline for all our internet and technology
empowered interactions.
Making it possible to federate, query, browse, gather and
recommend information from disparate sources.
Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change (Vol. 219). Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.
“Information absorption is a cultural and social process of engaging with the constantly changing world around us”. p47
changing their reading
and
information encounters
changing their creative
encounters
changing their real world
opportunities
The Fab Lab Network covers more than 40 countries in more than 200
labs in the world. Every Fab Lab is a potential classroom for the Fab
Academy.
http://www.fabacademy.org/
The Robots and Dinosaurs Hackerspace meets right here in Sydney and offers a communal space where
geeks and artists brainstorm ideas, play games, work on collaborative projects, and share the cost of some
great tools.
http://robodino.org/
Lifelong engagement with digital content!
A definitive guide to verifying digital content
for emergency coverage
It seems that a range of new forms of learning are still relatively unrecognised or even unacceptable within formal settings,
and even possibly informal ones.
Mixed messages around technology
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Mixed approaches to participatory pedagogies
Many important questions are raised when “established” learning theories are seen through technology.
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Participatory pedagogyParticipatory pedagogies recognise the popular and cultural meanings of apps, social media and tools and the ways in which young people adapt such media in both reflexive and non-reflexive ways for their own aims and purposes.
Participatory pedagogyThey include such activities as learning through social networking, searching and retrieving information, researching information, using information, games, collaboration and shared interests.
Participatory pedagogyEncouraging young people to become reflexive, or more reflexive, about their practices, behaviours and ethics is vital both in the development of their stance as media managers and producers and in the development of voice, agency, personalisation and an ethical stance to their own practices.
In talking about the essential paradigm shift that is taking place, Stanley (2011) highlights three areas of influence:
Information fluency — using search engines effectively; evaluating online information; collaborating in virtual environments, and delivering material resources online.
Digital citizenship — understanding responsible and ethical use of information, and maintaining safe online practices.
Digital storytelling — reading, writing and listening to books in many formats; creating, collaborating and sharing in a range of mediums.
Digital influences
Stanley. D.B. (2011). Change has arrived for school libraries, School Library Monthly, 27 (4)4, 45–47.
• “Knowledge assembly,” building a “reliable information hoard” from diverse sources.
• Retrieval skills, plus “critical thinking” for making informed judgements about retrieved information, with wariness about the validity and completeness of internet sources.
• Reading and understanding non-sequential and dynamic material. • Awareness of the value of traditional tools in conjunction with networked
media. • Awareness of “people networks” as sources of advice and help. • Using filters and agents to manage incoming information. • Being comfortable with publishing and communicating information as
well as accessing it. Bawden, D. (2008). Chapter One: Origins and concepts of digital literacy. In Digital literacies: concepts, policies & practices (pp. 17–32). Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Digital literacy
Heuristics for instructional design?
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Media literacynature and role of subliminal media effects
“The entire process is fundamentally rhetorical: it concerns the transformation of an audience”
McLuhan, E., & McLuhan, M. (2011). Theories of communication. Peter Lang.flickr photo by Striking Photography by Bo Insogna http://flickr.com/photos/thelightningman/4888770222 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
Digital literacy
“reading and writing in a digital environment, in order to position where the literacy action is taking place
and that it can be authentic, multimodal, far reaching, multi-tool, and code interdependent”
Chase, Z., & Laufenberg, D. (2011). Digital literacies: Embracing the squishiness of digital literacy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54(7), 535–537
transliteracy is not about learning text literacy and visual literacy and digital literacy in isolation
from one another but about the interaction of these literacies
Transliteracy
Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., & Pullinger, K. (2007). Transliteracy: crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12).
Information literacy
“the evolution of Web 2.0 and the revolution of social media and social networking requires a fundamental
shift in how we think about information literacy”
Mackey, T. P., & Jacobson, T. E. (2014). Metaliteracy: reinventing information literacy to empower learners. American Library Association.
comprehensive examination approach to metacognition,
multiple intelligence theory, multi-literacies, multiple literacies,
transliteracy, convergence and multimodal literacy.
Metaliteracy
….not intended to invoke yet another meta- or grand narrative but rather to acknowledge the
fragmented and centred nature of information in the post-modern
age
Metaliteracy
…..or any other bunch of new literacies -
they ALL really matter!
Heuristics for instructional design!
Each of these has a common purpose to break overall cognitive development process into parts that can more easily
structure educational processes and goals, and scaffold learning and individual knowledge development.
What is really at stake?
Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gorbis, M. (2011). Future work skills 2020.http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
Evolving Learning Landscape
Current thinking about 21st century skills, and the learning experiences that support their development, are essential starting points for capacity building. A list of the workforce skills presented by Davies, et al (2011, pp. 8-12) include:
• Sense-making • Social intelligence • Novel and adaptive thinking • Cross-cultural competency • Computational thinking
• New-media literacy • Transdisciplinarity • Design mindset • Cognitive load management • Virtual collaboration
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
The Future of Work 2015
“In addition to affecting the type of work we do, digital and mobile technologies are changing how we do it, where we do it (at home or remotely) and who our competition is”.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541566/a-closer-look-at-the-future-of-work/
MIT Technology Review -
This is more than technology! All professions of the future
require digital and information fluency
Foundation for young Australians
2015
http://www.fya.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fya-future-of-work-report-final-lr.pdf
Trends, challenges and development in technologies that will influence the future of
schools and libraries
NMC Horizon Reports
Using a modified Delphi process, a panel of 50+ education and technology experts identify topics very likely to impact technology planning and decision-
making: six key trends, six significant challenges and six important developments in technology.
https://www.futurelearn.com/learning-guide
Think critically, question fearlessly, reflect personally
Sustainable learning involves a pedagogic fusion between environments, tools, formats and meta-literacy capabilities.
(Mackey & Jacobson 2011)
Mackey, T P and Jacobson, T E 2011, ‘Reframing information literacy as a metaliteracy’, College & Research Libraries, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 62–78.
The question is.....?
How should we foster and prepare for this digital fluency?
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More content, streams of data, topic structures, (theoretically) better quality - all of these in online environments require an equivalent shift in our online capabilities.
In an age of information abundance learning to effectively search is one of the most important skills most teachers are often NOT teaching
63cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Cayusa: h=p://flickr.com/photos/cayusa/1444806159/
“the first search result is clicked on twice as much as the second, and the second twice as much as the third”. Dan Russell, Google’s usability chief
Rather than simply identifying a useful page, these systems try to pull the information from those pages
that might be what a user is looking for, and to make this immediately apparent.
More informative results?
✴ Those who know how to “think” about search, versus those who don’t✴ Those who know how to validate soft information, versus those who don’t✴ Those who know how to find information in new ‘hot’ channels versus those who don’t✴ Those who know how to get information to travel to them, versus those who still chase it.
What’s the story with the yellow blotch?
SearchReSearch bloghttp://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do
research. It also covers a good deal of sense making and information foraging.
For several years people have been fascinated by small, robot-
like figures popping up in city streets and other innocuous places. These figures, now
documented in flickr pools and blog posts from cities arose the
world, can be attributed to Stikman (sometimes searched for and referred to as "stickman"), an
anonymous graffiti artist, sometimes perhaps going by the alias "Bob," who has been putting
these images up since at least 2006.
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html
Search for 'painted yellow man robot'
yielded 'stickman' for a better explanation.
About 3 minutes Reply
Wednesday, September 30, 2015Search Challenge (9/30/15): Thinking outside the box
Some problems are hard.
But often, if you know where and how to search, the answers can be found without an excess of work.
This week's Challenge is an example of exactly this idea.
If you spend more than 5 minutes on this Challenge, you should stop and think to yourself: How else can I solve this Challenge? Once you figure out the method, you'll see why
I've posted this particular Challenge, and you'll have yet another arrow in your quiver of SearchResearch skills.
1. Can you create a chart showing the difference in the populations between North and South Korea since 1970? (Just a simple line graph
would be fine, thanks.)
2. Can you compute the market cap, total revenue, and number of outstanding shares for each of the companies IBM, Apple, Google, and
Xerox?
3. Having recently dived in the Caribbean, I'm really interested in whale sharks. Can you quickly compare blue whales, gray whales,
sperm whales, and whale sharks in terms of (a) lifespan, (b) maximum length, (c) weight? (Just the facts, ma'am.)
As I said, this really is a 5 minute Challenge. Do you know a method to make your searches that quick and effective for this kinds of data
collection / comparison?
Search on!
Learn about the latest additions to search so as to get the most out of Google.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/index.html
Google Knowledge Graph
When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage.
You’re looking to get answers, understand or explore.
Google alerts too!
knowledge encounters
helping students broaden the scope of their information
seeking
What else is really at stake?
FutureLab (2010) propose that being “digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to
apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when
digital technologies can best be used to support these processes.’
http://www2.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf
Global Images
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public
photography archives.https://www.flickr.com/commons
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.
The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Research Group. Published every Friday both on the Web and by email subscription, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed.
https://scout.wisc.edu/
What else can we do?
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Gather
Seek Follow
Explore
Cultivating inquisitive mindsets
I need to search, scan, and select the best resources I can find for my own personal interests, and by making my choices available to others, I create a resource for many besides myself.It’s about knowing, learning,
sharing, and teaching, all in one.
Turn personal interest into a community of interest
The Solution: Infotention Traininghttp://www.rheingold.com/university/mini-courses/
http://delicious.com/hrheingold/crap_detection
‘crap’ detection
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Information labyrinth
Howard Rheingold
Nurture strategies for information fluency
Gapminder fact-based world view
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/245623
Evernote for Educators
Digital practices
h=p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/
Modelling exemplary use of
social media, search engines,
and collaborative research strategies.
The benefits of content curation is that you don’t
re-invent the wheel - you
share!
Create | Collate | Contribute
Feedly is a great RSS feed reader to help you monitor lots of resources quickly. Smore or Tackk works well to create newsletter types of pages where you can add new resources and news. Flipboard Magazines allow you to create collections of articles, links to resources, images, news and more. Users can subscribe and get updates in a variety of ways, depending on the source. Tumblr blog – it’s easy to add notes, photos, links to articles to a tumblr. Your audience can subscribe to update through their own tumblr account, visit it via it’s URL or via an RSS feed Diigo Groups – Bookmark items in Diigo and add items to a diigo group that your audience can subscribe to updates via email or RSS. RSS magic – Anything with an RSS feed gives you lots more options. Readers can subscribe via their own feed reader or email. And you can display updates in a widget on your web/wiki pages.
https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-22-create-a-resource-guide/
Create | Collate | Contribute
Create | Collate | Contribute
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Periodic Table of QR codes on Flickr
Create | Collate | Contribute
find fabulous guides on
Flickrready for you
to use
Find free images online http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/
PhotoPin – My first stop for photo searching. Very easy to use and searches a number of sources for CC licensed photos.
CC search – search for images, video and music from one search page. Handy!
Flickr advanced search – Scroll to the botton of the screen and select the Creative Commons setting & “Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon”
Model the future!
Create | Collate | Contribute
Spell with Flickrhttp://metaatem.net/words/
http://bighugelabs.com/
Create | Collate | Contribute
Creative CommonsCreative Commons licensing allows for reuse of a image (and other intellectual content) under certain conditions. The licensing is easy to understand and having students select how they want to license their own work is a great way to get students thinking about copyright, reuse and
attribution.
Model the future!
Creative commons licenses work as “some
rights reserved rule instead of “all rights
reserved” rule.
Diverse set of license conditions with a range
of freedoms and limitations.
http://creativecommons.org/
Last one - Just for fun :-)
Model the future!
in Chrome
Rethinking Learning in the age of digital fluency
• Communication
–sharing thoughts, questions, ideas and solutions
• Curation
–collecting and reflecting on what we encounter
• Collaboration
–working together to reach a goal
–putting talent, expertise and ‘smarts’ to work
• Critical thinking
– looking at problems in a new way
– linking learning across subjects and disciplines
• Creativity
– trying new approaches to get things done
– innovation and invention
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