Transcript How Web 2.0 may change teaching and learning

How Web 2.0 may change
teaching and learning
Tom Franklin
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What is the Web 2.0 / Social Web
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http://www.shambles.net/web2/images/web2logolarge.jpg
What technology?
this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in
learners because they will not use their memories;
they will trust to the external written characters and
not remember of themselves. The [thing] which you
have invented is an aid not to memory, but to
reminiscence, and you give your students not truth,
but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers
of many things and will have learned nothing; they
will appear to be wise and will generally know
nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the
show of wisdom without the reality.
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Socrates
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Does Technology Change Education?
 Writing
 Printing
 Internet
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Possibilities
 Knowledge creation
 Knowledge sharing
 Personal control
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Knowledge creation - wikis
 Encyclopaedias
 Collaborative working
What you can do now
 Group project recording
 Course handbooks
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Issues
 Control
 Ownership
 Plagiarism
Knowledge creation - Social bookmarking
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Reading lists
Memory aid
Sharing
Finding
What you can do now
 Get students to rate /
review content
 Create a course tag
 Create a course account on
del.icio.us
 Course reading lists
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Knowledge sharing - blogs
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Diaries
Reflections
Adverts
Commentary
Anything
What you can do
 Get students to comment on
each others course related
blogs
 Course announcements
 Course reading lists with
commentary
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Early blogging
 The Talmud
 Discussion at a
distance
 Need not open up
discussion
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Knowledge sharing - bookmarking
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Reading lists
Memory aid
Sharing
Finding
What you can do now
 Get students to rate /
review content
 Create a course tag
 Create a course account on
del.icio.us
 Course reading lists
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Personal control
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So what?
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Does Web 2.0 make a difference?
What are those differences?
What will inhibit those changes
What will facilitate those changes
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Does this make a difference?
Students are already
 Using Google
 Using Wikipedia
 Blogging
 Have Facebook accounts
 Sharing
 Not using library resources
 Creating knowledge
 "Mashing up" - across
courses, with other things
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Institutions expect students to
 Use "approved" resources
 Use institutional resources
 Do their own work (except
where told to work as a
group)
 Respect authoritative
sources
 Consume knowledge
 Separate different modules
 Separate work and study
Walled gardens
Students gain more control
 Who they work with
(inside and out)
 What they work with
(authoritative / Google)
 When and where they
work
 How they do it
(what artefacts they
produce)
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Assessment
 This is the killer!
 Assessment drives the curriculum
 Can we change the nature of assessment?
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Web 2.0 and assessment
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Assess the process rather than the artefact?
Different types of artefact?
Group work (who is the group?)
Mash-ups?
 BUT
"A levels are the Gold Standard"
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Nature of knowledge
 Epistemological shift
 From consumption to creation
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Web 2.0 is the answer to Socrates
writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of
the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask
them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And
the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine
that they had intelligence, but if you want to know
anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker
always gives one unvarying answer. And when they
have been once written down they are tumbled about
anywhere among those who may or may not understand
them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom
not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no
parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or
defend themselves.
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