And what they tell us about learning and academia'

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Mashups

• And what they tell us about learning and academia.

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Mashups
John Krutsch john.krutsch_at_uvsc.edu Twitter
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Objectives

• Think about your teaching
• Think about your own personal learning
• Achieved through mashups

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What is a mashup?

• ...a website or web application that seamlessly
  combines content from more than one source into
  an integrated experience

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Examples

• Viral videos

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Examples

• Customized music videos

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Examples

• Popular songs

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Examples

• Movie trailers or TV show intros

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This is nothing new

• As early as 1969
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Silent night and the 7 oclock news

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Real Educational Value?

• Teachers have been doing this for years
• Thematic units
• Picture book rewrites
• Movie Madness
• http//www.uvsc.edu/disted/madness

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Real Educational Value?
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David Warlick

• As academics what we need to realize and embrace
  is that how students learn is as important as
  what they learn -- perhaps even more important.

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Rob Reynolds

• ...we talk about mashups, when we talk about not
  just one application, but taking pieces of all
  kinds of things and putting them together in new
  and creative ways

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Rob Reynolds

• it really parallels what we're talking about in
  education. Instead of just a standard curriculum,
  start with a core, but a flexible core, to which
  we can add things of personal interest, creative
  ideas, etc

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Which technologies are available?

• Open API
• Application Programming Interface
• Amazon
• Google Earth / Google Maps
• Social Networking Sites
• Twitter - johnkrutsch
• MySpace
• Facebook - John Krutsch

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Which technologies are available?

• Flickr http//www.flickr.com/explore
• http//www.flickrcombat.com
• Google maps
• Flickr Vision http//flickrvision.com
• Twitter Vision http//twittervision.com
• Client Map http//www.krutschfamily.com/meta.htm

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Which technologies are available?
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Which technologies are available?
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Susan Cline

• young people today are so over stimulated with
  information that we can't even take our songs,
  maps, programs one at a time but instead have to
  mash them together for the biggest bang.

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Granularity

• Biggest bang
• Granular nature of mashups
• Students participate in the creation of
• Lessons
• Courses
• Degrees

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Clearance Fisher

• This new era is also creating a realm of endless
  mix and match Anyone with a browser can access
  vast stores of information, mash it up, and serve
  it in new ways, to a few people or a few million.

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The lesson level

• Collective wisdom
• Deeply collaborative
• Rapidly tweaked
• Objective based
• Student ownership

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George Siemens

• We can now acquire our information in any manner
  that we desire. Learning, seen as content
  consumption, doesn't fit this model anymore.
  Learners piece together various content and
  conversation elements to create an integrated
  network of issues and concerns. Our learning and
  information acquisition is a mashup.

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George Siemens

• We take pieces, add pieces, dialogue, reframe,
  rethink, connect, and ultimately, we end up with
  some type of pattern that symbolizes what's
  happening out there and what it means to us.
  And it changes daily.

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George Siemens

• Instead of a CD with the songs of only one
  artist, we have iPods with a full range of music,
  video, audio files/books, images, etc. Our
  classrooms, instead of the pre-packaged views of
  an instructor or designers should include similar
  diverse elements.

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The course level

• Breakout of the textbook mold
• Choices to construct a more relevant and
  interesting experience
• Student mashups add to those choices
• Embrace for change
• Academia is not immune

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David Warlick

• Rather than graduating finished students, who
  are ready for the world, it is important that we
  produce people who are raw material, capable of
  not only adapting to a rapidly changing world,
  but also able to continue to learn, unlearn, and
  relearn, so that they can shape that world into
  something that is better.

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Charles Halton

• College students are not brand loyal to their
  universities and are taking classes from multiple
  institutions to create their own experience.
  Students are often transferring to 4-5 different
  universities before they earn their bachelors
  degree.

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Charles Halton

• A student may take summer classes from a
  college while they are back home on summer break,
  they might take a class at another institution in
  the same city as their home-base university, or
  they take online classes as they simultaneously
  take live-format classes.

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Charles Halton

• Its all about students taking the lead and
  designing their own education instead of just
  receiving what a central administrator hands
  them. This is the education of the future

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The degree level

• Successful programs will offer
• compelling and rewarding educational content and
  experiences
• teachers as DJs
• provide wise guidance and help for students as
  they form their mashups
• provide incredible mentor experiences

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Conclusion

• Think about your teaching
• Allow your students to take more ownership of
  their education
• Reuse, remix, and resubmit
• Alternative form of assessment
• Provide models and mentors

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Questions?

• John Krutsch
• john.krutsch_at_uvsc.edu
• Twitter johnkrutsch
• http//technagogy.blogspot.com