Visual Learning, Online Social Networks and Knowledge Construction

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Visual Learning, Online Social Networks and
Knowledge Construction

• Dr. Marina McIsaac
• Arizona State University (mmcisaac_at_asu.edu),
• Dr. António Moreira
• Universidade de Aveiro (moreira_at_ua.pt)
• Presented at ICEM, Poitiers
• September 2008

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Learning is Alphabet Soup

• b-learning, blended
• e-learning, electronic
• m-learning, mobile
• u-learning, ubiquitous

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Net-Generation

• Born 1980-1984, Millenials, Digital Natives
• Grown up in a digital culture (computers, MP3,
  DVD, cellphones)
• Rely on ICTs for information
• Use portable electronic devices widely
• Construct knowledge collaboratively

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Net-Generation Wants

• Active learning, receive and process quickly,
  multitask
• Flexible learning environments
• Control of their own learning
• Teachers who are not digital immigrants
• Animated, image-based and interactive information
  resources

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Students today

• Learn visually as well as verbally
• Construct their own knowledge
• Participate in online social networks to
  collaborate with others

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Visual Learning

• Digital images
• Photography, Video, UTube
• Virtual Worlds,Serious Games
• Second Life, Palestine

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Online Photo databases

• Flickr
• sharing
• Picasa
• management

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Utube
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Second Life
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Serious Games
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Online Social Networks

• iPhone apps, social network category
• Facebook
• ivote
• Skype

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iphone social networks
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Facebook
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iVote
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Skype
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Knowledge Construction
The art and science of mass collaboration
Tapscott Williams, 2007
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Knowledge Construction

• Wikinomics
• Mass Collaboration

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Beyond Social Networking

• New forms of collaboration
• Openness
• Sharing
• Connecting globally
• Open Source
• Wikipedia
• Web-enabled communities

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The New Economy

• Collective capability to drive innovation and
  growth
• Low cost, collaborative infrastructure
• Open source
• Out source
• Digital commons shares knowledge, bandwidth
• Threat to status quo

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The participation revolution now underway opens
up new possibilities for profound social
benefits, including the opportunity to make
governments more accountable and lift millions of
people out of poverty http//www.wikinomics.
com/ Tapscott Williams, 2007
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