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Web 2.0 revolution, education revived? (Learning 2.0)

SEGfL Content Group Conference . Web 2.0 revolution, education revived? (Learning 2.0). Jeff Howson. jeffreyrichardh@gmail.com. Web 2.0? Implications for education Wouldn’t it be nice if? What’s coming next?.

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Web 2.0 revolution, education revived? (Learning 2.0)

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  1. SEGfL Content Group Conference Web 2.0 revolution, education revived?(Learning 2.0) Jeff Howson jeffreyrichardh@gmail.com

  2. Web 2.0?Implications for educationWouldn’t it be nice if?What’s coming next?

  3. 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)

  4. Web 2.0? Wide use of internet, commonplatform Increased amount of information generated Increased demand for ease of use Increased demand for “connectedness” Need to “level the playing field” Need to contribute

  5. 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.

  6. The New Way • (Demand Pull) • Web is the platform. • wwww – whatever, wherever, whenever, whoever. • Users publish, share information, collaborate on content, and converse worldwide via social-software tools. • Read-write web (not read-only web) • Data comes from many users and sources • Data stored on host servers

  7. http://www.segfl.org.uk/spot/post/ict_tools_with_the_wow_factor/http://www.segfl.org.uk/spot/post/ict_tools_with_the_wow_factor/

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. Implications for education To 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 John Seely Brown

  11. * 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

  12. Examples of Social Learning: • Terra Incognita project – Uni of South Queensland • (2nd life) • Harvard Law School - 3 levels of participation • (2nd life) • Faulkes Telescope Project – students can access telescopes in Hawaii and Australia – research and collaborate with experts. • Bugscope Project – K12 students can send insects to Beckham inst (Uni of Illinois) and use online an electron microscope. • Decameron Project – Brown Univ – provides edu resources and have built a community of students use them / debate and submit own resources. • 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)

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use Web 2.0

  16. to create:

  17. What’s coming next?

  18. SEGfL Content Group Conference Web 2.0 revolution, education revived?(Learning 2.0) Jeff Howson jeffreyrichardh@gmail.com

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