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Collaborative learning and online communities

Steve Wheeler Plymouth University

United Kingdom

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Personal windows on the world

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We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)

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We learn by making (Papert, 1960) Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Online, en masse

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

Consuming, producing, remixing, sharing

Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Learning by making

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Learning 2.0

Curation Collaborating

Sharing and Amplifying

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging and Bookmarking

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Aggregation

Tribal nature of new media

“New media ... have made our world into a single unit... The world is now like a continually sounding tribal drum. Media point us away from individual man and toward tribal man.” ~ Marshall McLuhan (1960) metapedia.com

“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”

Internet tribes “A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

Digital tribes and virtual clans

There is one digital tribe ... But there are may subsets of this large digital tribe – what we can term ‘virtual clans’. - Wheeler (2009)

Image source: David Shankbone – Wikimedia Commons

Communities of practice

“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and

learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” (Wenger 2007)

“Being alive as human beings means that we are constantly engaged in the pursuit of enterprises of all

kinds, from ensuring our physical survival to seeking the most lofty pleasures. As we define these enterprises and engage in their pursuit together, we interact with each

other and with the world and we tune our relations with each other and with the world accordingly. In other

words we learn.” (Wenger, 1998)

Lurking, or legitimate peripheral

participation?

Image source: https://convcme.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/communities-of-practice-a-framework-for-learning-and-improvement/

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Personal Learning Networks

Photo by Steve Wheeler

Image source: http://www.informationr.net/ir/16-1/p464fig2.jpg

Crowdsourcing knowledge: Building your PLN

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“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through

collecting people”. - Karen Stephenson

Connectivism

Image source: Martin Fisch https://www.flickr.com/photos/marfis75/7968954274

The Wisdom of the Crowd….

…or Stupidity of the Mob

Paragogy

Beyond my reach

What I can learn with help (ZPD)

ZPD and scaffolding

What I can learn on my

own

Technology and tools Knowledgeable others

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We are family http://pro.corbis.com

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Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Graphic by Steve Wheeler

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Digital Cultural Capital – Membership of ‘the Tribe’

“Where digital

communication has fractured the tyranny of distance, and computers

have become pervasive and ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation

has become the new cultural capital”.

Wheeler (2009)

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‘New’ learners are... • more self-directed

• better equipped to capture information

• more reliant on feedback from peers

• more inclined to collaborate

• more oriented toward being their own

“nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured News John K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

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http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him an iPhone.” - Abraham Lincoln on the ‘selfie’

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The selfie

The best photo bomb… ever!

“60% of all Internet pages

contain misleading

information.” - Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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Learners will need new ‘literacies’

• Social networking • Privacy maintenance • Identity management • Creating content • Organising content • Reusing and repurposing • Filtering and selecting • Self presention • Transliteracy

http://www.mopocket.com/

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” - Socrates Plato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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Thank you

W: http://steve-wheeler.net E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk B: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com T: @timbuckteeth

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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