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Web 2.0 in learning and teaching

Tom Franklin

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tom@franklin-consulting.co.uk

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Technology trajectory

MatureWell adaptedCo-evolution of work and technology

NewPoorly understoodRepeat old ways of working

YoungEnhance old ways of working

RadicalTransform work

Time

NOW

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Inside out

Are students members of the university? Are staff?

What does membership mean? When do they stop being members?

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Will learning change?

Old learning Linear / slow Proprietary knowledge Ideas as strategic advantage Mentors Learn by reverse engineering Progress by "shoulders of giants" Wisdom of experts

New learning Exponential, networked, quick Shared knowledge Ideas "paid forward" Micromentors Lessons-learned benefit all Progress by the "mash-pit" Wisdom of crowds

Kathy Sierra from http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/understanding-learning-networks

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Will teaching change

Old teaching Assessment led Institutional control Authoritative Timetabled Clear distinctions between

formal and informal Teacher centred

New teaching ? Learner control? Exploratory timetabled Blurring of boundaries

Teacher + learners + experts

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What might we do differently

Across time and courses Share results from field trips between subjects

and years Meaningful data

Sharing resources between students through course based social bookmarking

Collaborative creation of works of art Co-design Critiquing

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Will Web 2.0 deliver?

Keen presents a dystopian vision in which people endlessly Google themselves and expertise counts for nothing; online communities gather merely to confirm their own prejudices; internet television purports to showcase amateur talent but is dominated by corporate marketing; newspapers are driven to the wall by online advertising and news sites edited at the whimsical click of a mouse; and knowledge of history and literature becomes smothered by an avalanche of blogs from self-obsessed teenagers.

From a review of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy by Andrew Keen, June 2007http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2068929,00.html