Web 2.0 revolution, education revived Learning 2.0

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Web 2.0 revolution, education revived?(Learning
2.0)
SEGfL Content Group Conference
Jeff Howson
jeffreyrichardh_at_gmail.com
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Web 2.0?Implications for educationWouldnt it
be nice if?Whats coming next?
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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)
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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
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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.

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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

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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

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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.
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Implications for education
To
From
To
Producing
Consuming
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
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• 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. (Underst
anding 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
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• 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)

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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
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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
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Wouldnt it be nice if we could use Web 2.0
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to create
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Whats coming next?
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Web 2.0 revolution, education revived?(Learning
2.0)
SEGfL Content Group Conference
Jeff Howson
jeffreyrichardh_at_gmail.com