The shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning

1. The shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project 3.26.12 Monterey Institute Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org Twitter: @Lrainie

3. Broadband facilitates networked information

4. Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing

5. Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations

6. New kinds of learners emerge

7. Digital Revolution 1Internet (80%) and Broadband at home (66%) 71% 66%

8. Internet users – 80%

9. Broadband at home – 64%

10. Networked creators are everywhere (two-thirds of adults; three-quarters of teens) • 66% of int. users are social networking site users • 55% share photos • 37% contribute rankings and ratings • 33% create content tags • 30% share personal creations • 26% post comments on sites and blogs • 15% have personal website • 15% are content remixers • 14% are bloggers • 13% use Twitter • 6% location services – 9% allow location awareness from social media – 23% maps etc.

11. 56% of adults own laptops – up from 30% in 2006 52% of adults own DVRs – up from 3% in 2002 44% of adults own MP3 players – up from 11% in 2005 42% of adults own game consoles 19% of adults own e-book readers - Kindle 19% of adults own tablet computer - iPad

12. Broadband facilitates networked information Pervasive media Links and multimedia Self-paced learning Analytics

13. Digital Revolution 2:Mobile phones – 88% of adults 327.6 Total U.S. population: 315.5 million 2011

14. Digital devices

15. Smartphones – 46%

16. Changes in smartphone ownership

17. Cell phones as connecting tools % of cell owners • 64% send photo or video • Post video 25% • 55% access social net. site • 30% watch a video • 11% have purchased a product • 11% charitable donation by text • 60% (of Twitter users) access Twitter 2/22/2011 17

19. Texting takes off and talking slips

20. Apps – 50% of adults

21. Augmented reality Mobile connectivity alters learning venues and expectations Attention zones morph Pervasive, perpetual awareness of social networks Real-time sharing, just-in-time searching New access points to knowledge (AAA)

22. Digital Revolution 3Social networking – 52% of all adults % of internet users

24. Social media aids peer-to-peer learning by doing Facilitates rise of amateur experts Elevates DIY learning in soc.nets Changes character of soc.nets Increases the role of social networks in learning

25. In the midst of all this, what’s happening with learning?

26. Teacher research • Teachers are teched-up personally and in class • Bloggers, SNS, Twitter users, Wikipedia • Divided about their aptitude vs. students • Tech makes students fundamentally different now in capacities and learning styles • Tech has good/bad impacts on students’ lives • Media savvy / sharing / immersive / broadening • Distracted / less-info savvy / prone to shortcuts

27. Good news for new methods % saying more than half of their undergraduate students have taken/will be taking an online class

28. Not-so-good news In general, do you think a course taken only online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

29. College presidents weigh in Generally speaking, do you believe a course taken online provides an equal educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

30. More oriented towards being nodes of production New kinds of learners emerge More reliant on feedback and response More self-directed More inclined to collaboration Better arrayed to capture new info

31. What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities” Old: Learning as transaction New: Learning as a process Knowledge is objective and certain Knowledge is subjective and provisional

32. What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities” Old: Learning as transaction New: Learning as a process Learners receive knowledge Learners create knowledge

33. What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities” Old: Learning as transaction New: Learning as a process Knowledge is organized in stable, hierarchical structures that can be treated independently of one another Knowledge is organized “ecologically”-disciplines are integrative and interactive

34. What is the future of learning/knowledge?-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities” Old: Learning as transaction New: Learning as a process Our “intelligence” is based on our individual abilities Our “intelligence” is based on our learning communities

35. Your map is wrong

36. Thank you!

37. Stanford CS221 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence • Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig • Google X, a lab created to incubate the company’s most ambitious and secretive projects. He was also free to pursue outside ventures. • In a few slides, he’d spelled out the nine essential components of a university education: admissions, lectures, peer interaction, professor interaction, problem-solving, assignments, exams, deadlines, and certification.