Trends in ICT and Teaching La Consolacion College Bacolod City September 3, 2009

1. Trends in ICT and Teaching La Consolacion College Bacolod City September 3, 2009

2. Outline • Learning Styles • Concepts • Implementation • Predictions 2009 • Hardware • Performance • Operating Systems • Internet • Mobile Tools • Cloud Computing • Gaming • Others • Trends in Teaching and Learning

3. Technology Trends 2009What’s out there this year

4. Hardware • Not so much in increases in processor speeds and RAM • Current hardware standards will run new OS releases with little extra power necessary • Revisions of major graphic cards • Move to mobile (iPhone, etc.) • Kindle ebook reader

5. Performance • Need for performance has leveled off • Average user configurations set for low-priced laptops • High end tabletop and mobile modules with unique features like touch screen and 3D monitors • Wireless connectivity

6. Operating Systems • Google Chrome OS (Open-Source, Web-based) out in 2010 • Google Android (mobiles) • The new Windows 7 may not be adopted as a standard for some time due to expected patches • Windows Xp is viable up to 2014 and will remain as the Windows OS-of-choice in 2009

7. Operating Systems • Windows 7

8. Operating Systems • Google Chrome OS "The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the Web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."-Google

9. Operating Systems • Google Chrome OS If Google can come up with an OS that can be downloaded, dropped onto any machine and then “just works,” we might just have the ultimate portable OS.Google is implicitly making the argument that there’s no need to pay the premium for a Microsoft OS, when there is [one] lighter, faster and free.-Wired

10. Operating Systems • Google Chrome OS

11. Internet • Social networking services (SNS) are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the Internet and with each other • Young people use SNS technology in ways that blur the boundaries between online and offline activities

12. Internet • Beyond casual use • Broadband as standard • Wireless and mobile access

13. Internet • Broadband chart

14. Mobile Tools • Mobile downloads • iPhone apps • iTunes apps • Ebooks • Cross platform applications • Wireless Internet access

15. Cloud Computing • Resources and software services over the Internet • The concept generally incorporates combinations of the following: • infrastructure as a service (IaaS) • platform as a service (PaaS) • software as a service (SaaS)

16. Cloud Computing • Diagram • Cloud computing customers do not generally own the physical infrastructure serving as host to the software platform • Expected to be mainstream by 2011

17. Traditional Media Convergence • Newspapers to flourish online • On-demand television, movies, and other entertainment online

18. Targeted Advertising • Behavioral or interest-based tracking • Advertising exchanges • User-specified advertising preference • Opt-in advertising

19. Content Generation • User-generated content • Content-sharing • Collaboration

20. E-Commerce • Advertising- and content-based revenue • Online stores • Web-based work • Online business tools and services • Virtual marketplace

21. The End The future begins

22. Trends in Teaching and Learning

23. Shifts in Learning and Teaching

24. Shifts in Learning and Teaching We are now in an age where the nature of learning and working has shifted from what could be called “industrial age” to an “information age” model.

25. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Industrial Age Model the clueless, teacher-dependent pupil

26. Shifts in Learning and Teaching

27. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Information Age Model the net-savvy, well-connected, teacher-independent end-user

28. Shifts in Learning and Teaching

29. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning Increasingly we are seeing the following trends, directions, and movements: • Discovery-based learning • aka inquiry-based, resource-based, project-based, and active) learning • takes place in problem-solving situations

30. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • “Teach less, learn more”

31. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • Collaborative work in teams or groups

32. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • course content is interdisciplinary, interdepartmental, and team taught

33. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • course content ispublicly accessible and shared beyond the members of an individual course

34. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • teaching and learning extend beyond the classroom and into the campus and community

35. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • the instructor is perceived as a partner in a learning community rather than as a sole entrepreneur

36. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning • the audience for student work is expanding from the individual instructor to communities of discourse that include peer feedback and exchange

37. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning Today’s students have grown up with technology as the air they breathe, are used to being wired 24/7, are comfortable multi-tasking in multi-media, and bring very different expectations to the classroom as a result.

38. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning Today’s employers prize transferable skills (e.g. problem solving, creativity, interdisciplinary teamwork) over encyclopedic knowledge.

39. Current Trends in Teaching and Learning Sources: *Frontiers of Education Symposium, Inauguration of Robert J. Birgeneau as the Ninth Chancellor of UC Berkeley (April 2005) *e-Berkeley Symposium, “From Information Overload to Information Rich: Teaching and Critical Thinking in the Point-and-Click Age,” UC Berkeley (April 2005) *UC Berkeley Accreditation Educational Effectiveness Report (2003) http://education.berkeley.edu/accreditation/ *UC Berkeley Strategic Academic Plan (2002) http://opa.vcbf.berkeley.edu/StratPlan/AcademicStrategicPlan.pdf *The Boyer Commission Report “Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities” (1998) http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/ Draft prepared by Cynthia Schrager, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, April 2005.

40. Trends in Teaching and Learning

41. Shifts in Learning and Teaching

42. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Agricultural Age Model • farming, small trade jobs • home-based apprenticeship

43. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Industrial Age Model • mass education under centralized governmental control • the clueless, teacher-dependent pupil

44. Shifts in Learning and Teaching

45. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Information Age Model • emphasis on analytical, logical thinking • the net-savvy, well-connected, teacher-independent end-user

46. Shifts in Learning and Teaching literacy literacy INFORMATION NAVIGATION DISCOVERY, EXPERIENTIAL BRICOLAGE + JUDGMENT (lateral) DON’T KNOW – LINK, LURK & TRY TEXT TEXT+IMAGE BEING TOLD (authority based) DEDUCTIVE (linear) DON’T KNOW WON’T TRY learning reasoning action John Seely Brown, Social Life of Information

47. my search engine my favorite research sites my teachers and tutors my classmates NET-SAVVY STUDENT my online study aids my reference materials and texts my online tutors my personal network communityware Shifts in Learning and Teaching Information Age Education

48. Shifts in Learning and Teaching • Search engines • Research sites • Online study aids – online dictionaries, encyclopedias, interactive software, websites with interactive tutorials, worksheets, and drills • Online tutors – in-person online tutoring that offers help with different subjects to students

49. Shifts in Learning and Teaching • Communityware – tools used by online communities to communicate and share various kinds of multimedia • Personal network

50. Shifts in Learning and Teaching Conceptual Age Model • grounded on human imagination, emotion, a deeper appreciation and understanding of meaning • the creator and sympathizer