Transcript ASLA Tas presentation Ken Price 17

Web 2.0 – constructivist
learning with disruptive
technologies
Dr Ken Price
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“You can only tell the shape of things by
looking at the edges”
anon
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the
conditions that surround him... The
unreasonable man adapts surrounding
conditions to himself... All progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
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Web 2.0 things you can use on
Monday morning…
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But first a message
from our sponsor…
Web 2.0
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What is Web 2.0 really?
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Choose your own definition
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Web is the platform – webtop not desktop
The read-write web (not the read-only web)
Data comes from users, often many users
Data stored somewhere outside of your direct
control
Sometimes data combined from multiple
sources – often XML
Authentication taken care of by site
(sometimes transferable eg Google, Gmail, etc)
Usually AJAX-based (Asynchronous Javascript
and XML).
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Top 20 Educational tools
© Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, 2007
Firefox
Web browser
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Web-based document creation
del.icio.us
Social bookmarking tool
Word
Word processing software
Google Search
Web search tool
Audacity
Sound editor and recorder
GMail/Googlemail
Web-based email
iGoogle
Personalised start page
Skype
Instant messaging, VoIP call tool
Wikispaces
Wiki tool
Google Reader
RSS/Feed reader
Dreamweaver
Web authoring tool
Wordpress
Blogging tool
flickr
Photo storage and sharing site
PowerPoint
Presentation software
Moodle
Course management system
Web 1.0
Blogger
Blogging tool
Netvibes
Personal start page
Web 2.0
Bloglines
RSS/Feed reader
Ning
Social networking tool
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Disruptive technology
Web 2.0 is inherently a disruptive
technology… this has two sides.
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Disruptive technology
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Disruption is
Essential to
innovation
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Disruptive technology
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Disruption is Evil for
some school leaders,
school systems and
maybe some teachers
and librarians
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Pageflakes
www.pageflakes.com/
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A sort of customisable dashboard that can
draw data from a wide range of other
Web2.0 applications – neat way to see
Web 2.0 in action
My pageflakes page
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RSS feed
weather feed
RSS feed
podcast
RSS feed
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Metaphors
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Web 1.0 – web as digital reference library,
largely a source of information for
students.
strive for content to be authoritative.
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Web 2.0 – web as place for students to
build knowledge, interact, share ideas.
accept that content may be unreliable.
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Web 2.0 and pedagogy
“I'm not surprised to read …that most of the
activities involving broadband are teacher-led (or
what I call the Dick Turpin style of teaching - stand
and deliver) because we're not encouraging this
symmetry, with pupils creating content and using
broadband to share it with others.
There needs to be this peer-to-peer type of learning
and this why broadband hasn't yet delivered the
properly personalised curriculum. Sadly, today,
broadband is about delivery and not about what it
truly should be: participation.”
(Stephen Heppell, 2006)
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Web 2.0 uptake - initially
Web 2.0 tools are often used as Web 1.0
tools initially
eg blogs and podcasts used as a way of
disseminating class tasks and notes,
del.icio.us collections used only to convey
websites, Wikipedia just as a “reference”
tool
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Student-generated content
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Having student content, feedback and
interaction sometimes challenges
education
At some stage, someone will suggest that
a tool that allows this should be banned…
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Banning Web 2.0 in schools?
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Web 2.0 and constructivism
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If we accept that knowledge creation is at
least a significant part of pedagogy, we
need tools that support this
Web 2.0 tools do
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Delicious
http://del.icio.us/
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At its simplest - just a social bookmarks
organiser
Students can maintain/share reference and
personal collections of online material, or
teachers to present these
Portable, device-independent
Based on user-determined tagging
(folksonomy rather than taxonomy)
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Example - http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff
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Why use del.icio.us?
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Save site found using multiple computers (home and
school) to one place.
Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web
access.
Continue to access your bookmarks even when your
computer crashes or you get a new computer.
Share web sites with your students or peers.
Search your bookmarks by keywords and tags.
Use related tags to narrow or extend your searches.
Display your saved web site links by category.
Learn about new sites from your other del.icio.us
users.
Subscribe to other users’ del.icio.us bookmarks.
Check out recently posted and popular sites.
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.d.muir/Delicious1_2.pdf 21
Examples
Go to http://del.icio.us/tasite07
Now login with username <deleted>, pwd
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<deleted>
Library-specific examples:
 http://del.icio.us/chelmsfordlibrary
 http://del.icio.us/kkerns
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http://del.icio.us/practicalclassroomstuff
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RSS readers
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Becoming universal –built into some
browsers
Bloglines.com is one example of an
aggregator
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Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
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As it stands, it’s really Web 1.0
With student-generated and shared data,
it’s an almost Web 2.0 application.
Mashups of Google Earth or Maps with
other data can produce neat educational
products
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Google Literature Trips,
timelines, etc
www.googlelittrips.com/ - track the journey
described in a book or story, and annotate
the places on the way.
 London timeline (kmz file) animation of
London skyline over time
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Youtube and Teachertube
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www.youtube.com
www.teachertube.com
Example of YouTube in classroom
www.thecorner.org/hist/video/v_ww2.htm
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Youtube – classroom video
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How would your school respond to this?
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Youtube – the other side of
secret video
Secret filming teacher defended
Mrs Mason denies professional misconduct and failing to
promote the education and welfare of students.
It would be a "travesty of justice" to discipline a supply
teacher who secretly filmed her pupils for a documentary,
a tribunal has heard.
Channel Five's controller Chris Shaw told a General Teaching Council hearing that
Angela Mason had contributed to an important public debate.
Mrs Mason, of north London, is accused of professional misconduct for filming
staff and students without consent.
She denies misconduct, saying she wanted to expose "classroom chaos".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6593605.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6589707.stm
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ThinkFree
www.thinkfree.com/
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Almost a complete office suite (like
Microsoft Office), complete with storage
and the ability to share (Seems blocked in DoE)
Google docs and
spreadsheets
docs.google.com
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Very simple and effective writing and
numeric tools, compatible with common
tools
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Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
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Simple photo-storing and sharing site
Tagging by users
As always educators find unexpected ways to
use it
16 ways to use Flickr in your library
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Flickr - annotating
images for critical
analysis or instruction
Art
 www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/414146234/
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/learningandteachin
gscotland/241343007
Recipes  www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/2573806/
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Flickr recipe
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Mind and
concept
mapping
tools
www.mindomo.com Log in to our demonstration account,
username <deleted>, pwd <deleted>
http://bubbl.us/
 Online mindmapping-brainstorming tools,
with inbuilt storage
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Podcasting in a hurry
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tasitepodcast.podomatic.com
www.podomatic.com
username <deleted>
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pwd <deleted>
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NoteMesh
http://notemesh.com/
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Collaborative note taking and building of
student knowledge from class/lecture
model.
(associates your email address to your
school/college/TAFE/university – a
problem for DoE students)
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Gliffy
http://www.gliffy.com/
Online diagramming tool (similar to Visio but
more elementary)
Username
Pwd
<deleted>
<deleted>
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JumpCut
http://www.jumpcut.com/
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Edit and store videos online
Obvious issues of content, duty of care,
exposure of education system or school
to unwanted publicity
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Uth TV
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http://www.uthtv.com/
Examples
http://www.uthtv.com/wiki/index.php/Teac
her_Resources
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Curriki
www.curriki.org
Free online curriculum, built in a wiki-style
model.
Can be used as a resource, or as a place to
collaboratively build curriculum
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Edu 2.0
www.edu20.org
 Provides shared curriculum/courses, and
allows people to teach them or learn
from them
 Courses can be public or private
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OK so what is left?
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There are tools to provide desktop
productivity software, email, online
storage, mindmapping, diagramming,
image management, GIS-geospatial tools,
video, audio, etc etc
What if education and training just made
use of these instead of trying to provide
it?
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What if all this was available
for free?
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Email, 2 GB of storage per student, mail search tools and integrated
chat.
Access your inbox, calendar, docs and campus info, plus search the
web from one place.
Manage your domain and user accounts online.
Free text and voice calling around the world.
Docs & Spreadsheets: create, share and collaborate on documents
in real-time
Coordinate meetings and school events with sharable calendars.
Easily create and publish web pages.
All with a single username and password
And for a small fee, if you want it…
 Integrate with your existing IT systems or 3rd party solutions.
 24/7 assistance, including phone support.
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Well, it is. Right now.
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There are risks…
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Web 2.0 risks
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Where is(are) your data?
Who else can get to it?
Does the application
encourage inappropriate use?
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Web 2.0 risks
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Usernames and passwords –
how to manage them all?
Security risk if you use same
username/pwd as on your
own systems? Need for
different levels of password
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Web 2.0 risks
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What happens if the
service provider has
technical problems,
goes out of business
Data volume and
bandwidth
requirements?
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Web 2.0 risks
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Copyright implications
Cost of hosted or used content
under CAL licensing
Some hope provided by
Creative Commons, NEALS
initiatives…
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Creative Commons licensing
Attribution:
Credit must be given to the creator
Non-commercial
No derivative works:
only verbatim copies allowed
Share alike:
Can distribute derivative works only under a licence identical
to the licence of your work.
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What would YOU do?
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student uses
RateMyTeachers.com and claims
that a teacher is involved in an
inappropriate relationship with
one of her students?
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What would YOU do?
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some students use a photosharing
site to share photos of last weekend’s
drinking party. Some of the photos
involve nudity
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What would YOU do?
a teacher uses a free public blog site to
develop and deliver all their year’s work.
The blog site closes without notice 6
months later as the company collapses.
The teacher has no copy of their materials
because “it’s all stored on that network
thing isn’t it??”
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What would YOU do?
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Your students decide to repeatedly
edit the Wikipedia pages for your city,
to “improve” them. The Wikipedia
administrators block the IP range for
your school system so nobody in your
school/system can edit.
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What would YOU do?
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Some kids hate the different software
versions, settings and applications on
school and home computers.
They decide instead to do all their work
using ThinkFree, a totally online
application and data storage tool.
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The future…
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Let’s hope that early-adopter educators
continue to innovate with new
technologies, and schools and systems
make use of their findings to benefit all
learners.
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