InformationCommunicationTechnology

and TAFESA

A LITTLE HISTORY

1989

THE TECHNOLOGY

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•User has total editorial control•No third party need be involved•DISINTERMEDIATION (the decline of the gatekeepers)

THE DIGITAL AGE

PERSONAL PUBLISHING/ PARTICIPATORY MEDIA TOOLS

• Blogs (written text)• Podcasts (audio)• Wikis (collaborative workspaces)==================================• Flickr (photo sharing)• Video repositories (YouTube, Google Video, BlipTV,

TeacherTube, etc)• Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Bebo,

Orkut, etc)

} Now often indistinguishable from each other as they all now house text and all available media.

HERE COMES EVERYBODY

Clay Shirky

THE CROWD:

Collective wisdom?

Stupidity of the masses?

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

WE HAVE BECOME

A GLOBAL NETWORK

GLOBAL TRENDS (NMC sponsored retreat on

The Future of Education)

• Work is increasingly Global and Collaborative

• People learn anywhere, anytime (BYOD – bring your own device)

• Mobile

• Openness — content, resources, courses, research, attitudes

• The CLOUD

• Ownership (copyright) and privacy

• Access, and Scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success (MOOCS)

• Notion of literacy is being redefined (multi- or transliteracy)

• Rise of Informal Learning

• New Business Models

The Future of (Learning) Institutions in a Digital Age

• “Traditional learning environments convey knowledge via overwhelmingly copyright-protected publications. Networked learning, contrastingly, is an “open source” culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.”

(HASTAC Report, June 2009)

Creative Commons Licensing

from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

The Question of Values

Our philosophy determines ...how (or if) we choose and use e-learning technologies. (http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/04_Anderson_2008_Kanuka-Online_Learning.pdf)

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The Question of Values

Mark Pegrum:

• “discussions about the Internet and education often reflect deep-seated social beliefs”

• “technology is a battlefield on which contests over different visions of society are still being fought out.”

Awareness or a Set of Skills?

• New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Employability Skills

• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

The Future of (Learning) Institutions in a Digital Age

• “traditional institutions must adapt or risk a growing mismatch between how they teach and how this new generation* learns” (and works)

(HASTAC Report, June 2009)

Note*: this new generation includes a good many Baby Boomers. It is not just about younger people.

TENSION

Web 2.0 (Personal Learning Network - PLN)

ORGANISATIONAL DEMANDS (standards, auditing, duty of care, copyright, proprietary technology, etc)

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Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens will enter places of work and learning highly connected to a network of peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual learning, and collaboration. They may expect to be able to make use of these personal learning and social networks, and the technologies that make these networks possible, in their places of work or study. These web 2.0 citizens operate in a world that is open and mobile, and they are unlikely to accept authority that is automatically assigned to a position. Their world is flat and devoid of hierarchy. In a world where information about their areas of interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will place greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond classroom or workplace boundaries,and knowing where to get the knowledge and information they need, rather than having that knowledge and information themselves.

MODELS

OF

ELEARNING

http://what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com/

MODELS OF ELEARNING

• Etraining• Distance Education• Blended (or Web Enhanced) Learning Type 1• Blended (or Web Enhanced) Learning Type 2• Virtual Classroom Type 1 (Collaborative)• Virtual Classroom Type 2 (Presentational)• The Community of Practice• MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)• Flipped Classroom

Source: http://what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com/

TAFESA TOOLS

ASYNCHRONOUS• Moodle (LMS = Learning Management System)

SYNCHRONOUS (real time)• Centra (virtual classroom or web conferencing

software)

OTHER• Podzone (for audio storage/podcasting)• Yammer (communication)

NON-TAFE TOOLS

Software/Services• Facebook• Wikis• Blogs• Flickr, Picasa• YouTube

Devices (BYOD = Bring Your Own Device)• Ipads, tablets, laptops, netbooks• Smart phones

Why does mediamatter?

• Adrian Miles (RMIT):“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

• Innate human desire/need to create• Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of

images, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc• develops Digital Literacy• Ascendance of VIDEO LITERACY*

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Why does mediamatter?

• A majority of students (74 – 85%) who had taken courses with multimedia learning materials found them easier, and spent less time completing the course. (Michael Sankey, USQ)

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WHO FINDS READING/WRITING DIFFICULT?

• English as Second or Other Language Learners (ESOL)

• Low level literacy• Those with little recent formal learning

experience• Those with poor keyboard skills• Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

DON’T FORGET THE STUDENTS

• Don’t forget to give your students the opportunity to create media!

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Michael Coghlanmichaelc@chariot.net.au

March 1st, 2013