How Web 2.0 may change teaching and learning

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How Web 2.0 may change teaching and learning

• Tom FranklinFranklin Consulting
• tom_at_franklin-consulting.co.uk

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What is the Web 2.0 / Social Web
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What technology?
this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness
in learners because they will not use their
memories they will trust to the external written
characters and not remember of themselves. The
thing which you have invented is an aid not to
memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your
students not truth, but only the semblance of
truth they will be hearers of many things and
will have learned nothing they will appear to be
wise and will generally know nothing they will
be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom
without the reality.
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Socrates
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Does Technology Change Education?

• Writing
• Printing
• Internet

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Possibilities

• Knowledge creation
• Knowledge sharing
• Personal control

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Knowledge creation - wikis

• Encyclopaedias
• Collaborative working
• What you can do now
• Group project recording
• Course handbooks
• Issues
• Control
• Ownership
• Plagiarism

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Knowledge creation - Social bookmarking

• Reading lists
• Memory aid
• Sharing
• Finding
• What you can do now
• Get students to rate / review content
• Create a course tag
• Create a course account on del.icio.us
• Course reading lists

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Knowledge sharing - blogs

• Diaries
• Reflections
• Adverts
• Commentary
• Anything
• What you can do
• Get students to comment on each others course
  related blogs
• Course announcements
• Course reading lists with commentary

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Early blogging

• The Talmud
• Discussion at a distance
• Need not open up discussion

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Knowledge sharing - bookmarking

• Reading lists
• Memory aid
• Sharing
• Finding
• What you can do now
• Get students to rate / review content
• Create a course tag
• Create a course account on del.icio.us
• Course reading lists

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Personal control
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So what?

• Does Web 2.0 make a difference?
• What are those differences?
• What will inhibit those changes
• What will facilitate those changes

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Does this make a difference?

• Students are already
• Using Google
• Using Wikipedia
• Blogging
• Have Facebook accounts
• Sharing
• Not using library resources
• Creating knowledge
• "Mashing up" - across courses, with other things

• Institutions expect students to
• Use "approved" resources
• Use institutional resources
• Do their own work (except where told to work as a
  group)
• Respect authoritative sources
• Consume knowledge
• Separate different modules
• Separate work and study

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Walled gardens

• Students gain more control
• Who they work with (inside and out)
• What they work with(authoritative / Google)
• When and where they work
• How they do it(what artefacts they produce)

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Assessment

• This is the killer!
• Assessment drives the curriculum
• Can we change the nature of assessment?

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Web 2.0 and assessment

• Assess the process rather than the artefact?
• Different types of artefact?
• Group work (who is the group?)
• Mash-ups?
• BUT"A levels are the Gold Standard"

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Nature of knowledge

• Epistemological shift
• From consumption to creation

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Web 2.0 is the answer to Socrates
writing is unfortunately like painting for the
creations of the painter have the attitude of
life, and yet if you ask them a question they
preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be
said of speeches. You would imagine that they had
intelligence, but if you want to know anything
and put a question to one of them, the speaker
always gives one unvarying answer. And when they
have been once written down they are tumbled
about anywhere among those who may or may not
understand them, and know not to whom they should
reply, to whom not and, if they are maltreated
or abused, they have no parent to protect them
and they cannot protect or defend themselves.