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Lifelong learning in a digital age Inspiration and Innovation through Social Media Steve Wheeler University of Plymouth http:// www.vend123.com/ Joint Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Portsmouth, 24 June, 2010:

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Lifelong learning in a digital age: Inspiration and innovation through social media - this is the slideset of a keynote I presented at the Joint Learning and Teaching Conference for the University of Portsmouth on June 24th, 2010.

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Lifelong learning in a digital age

Inspiration and Innovation through Social Media

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

http:// www.vend123.com/

Joint Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Portsmouth, 24 June, 2010:

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http://cdn.epltalk.com

Pompey vs. Argyle

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http://ww

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/photos/mark2rock

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Mark 2 1982

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What’s on my mind...

• transformation in learning• inspiration in education• personalised learning• creative use of media

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http://eduinreview.com

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com

New York c 1920

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Transformation…

• …to change people or things completely, especially improving their appearance or usefulness

• …to convert one form of energy to another

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“We are in the middle of a revolution in how knowledge is created, transmitted and organised that is of similar significance to that which followed the invention of printing.”

~ Seb Schmoller

http://www.fenews.co.uk

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www.cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at

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Mass produced universal

text (Disruptive

Technology)

Gutenberg

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What is the disruptive technology in universities today?

Clue: 99.8% of students own one or more

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Trends in mobile phone use

27%

38%49%

Feb 09 Oct 09 Jun 10

Student ownership of smart mobile phones.

97% of students now use text messages as their main form of communication.

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2010.

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The first mobile phone?

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The ‘Brick’

When Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone 35 years ago, he envisioned a world with people so wedded to wireless connections that they would walk around with devices embedded in their bodies.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au

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Daily text messaging among American teens shot up in 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009.

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Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx

http://www.babble.com

txting

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Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. (2009 statistics)

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Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx

http://blog.roadandtravel.com

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk

Objections from educators

...they are distracting and disruptive. The phone becomes

the focus of attention,inappropriate images/videos

can be taken and sent, leading to invasion of privacy and loss

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Mobile phones are banned in most schools because...

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What is this?

dad@hvn ur spshl. we want wot u

want & urth 2b like hvn. giv us food & 4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz. don't test us! save us! bcos we kno ur boss. ur tuf & ur cool 4 eva! ok?

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‘Squeeze’ text

The competition was for re-writing the Lord's Prayer for the mobile phone, using just 160 characters or less. It was judged for Ship of Fools by the Churches' Broadcasting Conference. The task itself was not easy. The traditional version of the Lord's Prayer is 372 characters long, so whittling it down to 160 characters meant cutting the prayer by more than half but without losing anything important.

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http://www.canada.com

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...and in second place…

r pa in evan, respect 2 u, may u

rain ear as in evan. giv us r needs, 4giv r sin as we 4giv r nmes. resq us from the evil 1. 4 ur always the most xlent dude. yo

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Does education need transformation?

Source: Chambers English Dictionary

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

~ Nietzsche

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http://thescholasticdiary.wordpress.com

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“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” – David Warlick cc

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http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

It certainly needs inspiration...

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in

school” – Albert Einstein

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http://gradeproud.com

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Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

http://ww

w.taranakicareers.co.nz

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http://aproposofnothing.files.wordpress.com

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2001 and all that...

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“Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer....

.... should be”.

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“A computer once beat me at chess...

...but was no match for me at kickboxing.”

http://woodforthetrees.files.wordpress.com

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Digital natives?

http://tatango.com

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What does the ‘Net Generation’ expect?

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anytime

personalised

anyplace

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Personalised Learning?

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http://www.delasallewaterford.com

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Personalised Learning?

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http://www.hseb.utah.edu

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We are family

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Wii are family!

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http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences

are acknowledged

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

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Personal Web Tools

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Communication

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Personal Web Tools

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Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Blog Mashup

Wiki

Tagging

Personal Web Tools

E-portfolio

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Students need new ‘literacies’

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

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http://www.mopocket.com/

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Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

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20% 80%Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.

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You are your own ‘VLE’

Services Tools

Formats Content

Channels Networks

Aggregation

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Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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Modes of learningInformalFormal

Collaborative

Reflective E-portfoliosEssay writing

Group workCo-operative learning

Social networkingWiki

BloggingMicroblogging

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Space integration

Community spacePersonal space

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Wiki blog integration

Reflective spaceCollaborative space

Blog Wiki

Community spacePersonal space

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Wiki blog integration

Reflective spaceCollaborative space

Blog Wiki

Negotiation of meaningCo-construction of knowledge

Community spacePersonal space

Proximal Development Professional ID

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Wiki blog integration

Who I am What I know

Blog Wiki

ReflectionSelf expression

(Brescia & Miller, 2006)

Creative writingCritical thinking

Meta cognitive processesSocio cognitive processes

(Gleaves et al, 2007)

Sharing/exchangingEditing/modifying(Tu et al, 2008)

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PLEs, PLNs and PWs

Personal Learning Network

Personal Web

PersonalLearning

Environment

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The goal of education

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk

“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.”

– Dave Truss

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Wa

http://www.prlog.org

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Want some inspiration?

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http://benpeterson.files.wordpress.com

http://www.prlog.org

Robben Island, Cape Town

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Lifelong learning against all the odds

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Source: Maria Webster - http://www.ntdaily.com/

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Intuitive devices

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“All too often today we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

- John W Gardner

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http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

http://www.newcastle.edu.au

The future?

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Thank you

[email protected]

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

UK: International Licence.

Steve Wheeler [email protected] University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

Joint Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Portsmouth, 24 June, 2010: