Transcript Web 2.0 revolution evolution – education revived?

SEGfL Content Group Conference
Web 2.0 revolution,
education revived?
(Learning 2.0)
Jeff Howson
[email protected]
Web 2.0?
Implications for education
Wouldn’t it be nice if?
What’s coming next?
Web 2.0?
Second generation of web-based communities and hosted services —
such as social networking sites, wikis, etc. — which facilitate collaboration and sharing
between users. (wikipedia.com)
Web 2.0?
Wide use of internet, common platform
Increased amount of information generated
Increased demand for ease of use
Increased demand for “connectedness”
Need to “level the playing field”
Need to contribute
The Old Way
(Supply Push)
• A digital library, largely a source of
information for students.
• A large collection and collation of
information with varying degrees of
reliability and authenticity.
• Mostly surfing from one static Web site to
another while collecting or viewing data
along the way.
The New Way
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(Demand Pull)
Web is the platform.
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wwww – whatever, wherever, whenever,
whoever.
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Users publish, share information,
collaborate on content, and converse
worldwide via social-software tools.
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Read-write web (not read-only web)
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Data comes from many users and sources
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Data stored on host servers
http://www.segfl.org.uk/spot/post/ict_tools_with_the_wow_factor/
Web 2.0 tools (examples)
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social network software
• Tagged photo stores / content
• Social bookmarking
• Communication networks
• Podcasts and vodcasts
• 3-D virtual worlds
• RSS
• Mashups
One out of Eight Couples Married
in 2006 Met Online.
MySpace is the 11th Largest
Country in the World.
The Number of Text Messages
Sent each day exceed the Total
Population of Earth.
2.7 Billion Google Searches Per
Month.
Implications for education
From
To
Consuming
Producing
Authority
Transparency
Expert
Facilitator
Classroom
Hallway
Access to information
Access to people
Learning about
Learning to be
Passive learning
Passionate learning
Presentation
Participation
Publication
Conversation
Formal education
Lifelong learning
Supply-push
Demand-pull
To
John Seely Brown
* Sir John Daniel (1996)
• Open Education Resources (MIT / OU) e.g. iTunes
• Web 2.0 = Social Learning
Learning About
(Cartesian Model)
Focus on what is being
learned.
(Knowledge as substance /
Pedagogy as knowledge
transfer)
Learning to be
(Social Learning Model)
Focus on how learning happens,
within communities.
(Understanding is socially
constructed)
Step 1. Master content
Step 2. learn how to be an expert
Step 1. Master Content + Learn how
to be an expert at the same time
(Productive Inquiry)
Comm/Coll/Share
Examples of Social Learning:
1.Terra Incognita project – Uni of South Queensland
(2nd life)
2.Harvard Law School - 3 levels of participation
(2nd life)
3.Faulkes Telescope Project – students can access telescopes in Hawaii and
Australia – research and collaborate with experts.
4.Bugscope Project – K12 students can send insects to Beckham inst (Uni of
Illinois) and use online an electron microscope.
5.Decameron Project – Brown Univ – provides edu resources and have built a
community of students use them / debate and submit own resources.
6.Open Source Communities – over 1 million people are engaged in developing
OS products by contributing through networked communities of practice.
(same process for Wikepedia)
7. Reflective Practicums – (Learning about learning)
Implications for education (TRENDS)
• Content Creation (Explosion)
• Information (Overload)
• Participation (Increase)
• Producer / Consumer (Prosumer)
• Collaboration (Increase)
• Innovation (Increase)
• Flatter and Faster (with Spikes)
• Classroom to Hallway
• The Long Tail (new)
• Social Networking (Increase)
Steve Hardagon
Implications for education (What can we do?)
• Know Web 2.0
• Lurk
• Participate
• Prosume
• Empower others to produce
• Lead and Converse with students:
E-Safety
Accessing Content
Creating Content
Critical Thinking
• Discuss / Debate – What are the Questions?
Steve Hardagon
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use Web 2.0
to create:
What’s coming next?
SEGfL Content Group Conference
Web 2.0 revolution,
education revived?
(Learning 2.0)
Jeff Howson
[email protected]