e-Learn Manifesto

AN E-LEARN MANIFESTO:APAD’S PROJECT

Antonio VantaggiatoUniversidad del Sagrado Corazón

APAD

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1995: Internet?What were we doing in 1995?

The Internet? Bah!

Clifford Stoll27 Feb. 1995

Web 2.0is changing everything...

usersprovide content

WEB 2.0

usersedit content

author’s copyright?need to rethink it...

This is Jim Groom...just relaxing after his talk @ Blogfesores 2009!

This is Mike WeschAuthor of “The Machine is Us/ing Us”

This is Barack ObamaUS President

And this is Britney!…why?

Blogs I “read”El Caparazón: Dolors Reig

CogDogBlogAlan Levine

DigiZenBlogfesor Mario Nuñez

bavatuesdaysJim Groom

education 2.0

The issues and possibilities being created by 2.0 technologies

Compel us to RETHINK (see Wesch!) many ideas... education, copyright, knowledge, access, ...

In the HOPE changes be produced... everywhere.

Effects of technology & the Web

Technology enables modalities such as constructivism, etc. (Norman & Spohrer 1996)

+ Significant

transformation of the teaching-learning process (Hannafin 2003)

Slowness to adopt…

Their little vocation at innovation made universities delay 30 years the adoption of the printing press.

-Alejandro Piscitelli

however...

However...

The Web is not being used at the

max of its innovation capability;

It’s used to “reformulate what is already familiar” (Alan Kay)

Houston, we have a problem…

Does education need to change?

What should education try to do?

Humans Will Not Survive the Century

-Robert Caillau (CERN), 2006

...change is about to come

Real education ...is about learning to live and learning to make a living (John Adams), an idea

that got lost between the late 1700s and today. High schools and universities have simply

failed to teach what needs to be taught. This will change in 2009.

—Roger Schank

e-Learn

The Web: Fundamental pedagogic environment (Suter 2005), not just a tool…

Convergence“...we must assume the technology of online

learning will produce learning systems of a blended nature that are far better than the prior 'gold standard' of the face-to-face class.

As a beneficial side effect, distinctions will blur between traditional learning and distance learning.” (Hiltz & Turoff 2005).

A new territory

The limits of my language are the

limits of my world-L. Wittgenstein

InternetAccess

72.5

59.9

87.735

85.944.935.7

39.326.1

USAEU

NorwayPuerto Rico

AntiguaChile

Costa RicaArgentina

Brazil

Source: www.internetworldstats.com, 2008

Dec. 2008: State of the Blogosphere

http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

State of the Blogosphere 2008

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Competencies 2.0

The student 2.0 must change role: from

information consumer to prosumer - producer & consumer at once...

Critical Analisys / new media interpretation

Change from information overload to

knowledge production

empowerment 2.0

At last a simple, accessible, freeing technology. WE ALL may:

Edit a video, compose & play music, edit encyclopedias...

Install programs & experiment w/ them...

Ideas flow freely. A Renaissance 2.0?

Revolution

-Jim Groom (2008) bavatuesdays.com

Open

Issues

I> Delivery

Education is delivered

Model: transmission of knowledge

To Teach <-- to Show

II> PlaceIf knowledge is delivered, then…

… learning happens in a place and is delivered by an agent

THUS…

Learning happens within the classroom

III> The agent

… an expert transmits knowledge (two fallacies in one sentence!)

What of the scientific method?

Does it get used to teach science?

IV> Identity

Methods and architectures from elementary education are applied at all levels

V> Mediation of technology

Always been there!

VI> Content

Problem of content

200% courses in LMS’s work as content holders

… Edu Tech is just the funnel

VII> Slow Learning

Learning doesn’t happen in a flash. It is a difficult (social) process.

Reflection, work, Slow Food

SlownessFind ways that “encourage slowness and

wholeness within the practice of everyday schooling”

Move education “away from cultures of materialization and fast knowledge”.

-Geetha Narayanan (2006)

elearnmanifesto.org

Manif{i}esto 2.0

A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions (Wikipedia)

(Quasi) Públic Construction

Manifesto

Manifiesto de Cartagena, Simón Bolívar 1812

Communist Manifiesto, Karl Marx & Frederick Engels 1848

Surrealist Manifiesto, André Breton 1924

eLearn Manif(i)estoAPAD’s project

How Web technologies ought to be used to transform teaching & learning and to provide access to quality instruction to all?

eLearn Manif(i)estoParticipation I

I. Submit and publish a paper to articulate your interpretation of the aforementioned themes...

eLearn Manif(i)estoParticipation II

II. A book with selected papers will be edited and published...

eLearn Manif(i)estoParticipation III

III. Through the blog point out your doubts, ask new questions... and propose your ideas for the Manifesto

eLearn Manif(i)estoParticipation IV

IV. The book’s last chapter will contain the actual Manifesto, synthetized from the ideas discussed in the blog...

eLearn Manif(i)estoParticipation V

V. The Manifesto will keep alive after publication... thanks to the blog. www.elearnmanifesto.org

Starting Pointse-Learn Manifesto

(one) Open Learning

Starting PointseLearn Manifesto

(three) ...

Open Learning 2009

As free and open learning becomes the norm for millions of learners around the globe, high schools, universities, and corporate training centers will need to adjust their policies, procedures, and philosophies related to teaching and learning.

If not, it may be time to say goodbye to many of them in 2009.

—Curt Bonk

Starting Pointse-Learn Manifesto

(two) Slow Learning

Participate!Antonio Vantaggiato

avantaggiato@sagrado.edu

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