ICT Forum for SchoolsNovember 1, 2007 Exploring Web 2.0 Venue:Learning Network New ZealandFacilitator: Fiona Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

The Machine is Us/ing us

The idea of the knowledge-based society is presenting some major challenges for our schools and the way we learn.

Jane Gilbert (2005) believes that a new meaning for knowledge is developing and that “it is produced not in the minds of individuals but in the interactions between people”.

What happens to the traditionalconcepts of school, classroom and

teaching when we can access learning anything, anywhere, anytime?

From "Today’s Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen", displayed with special permission. For many more cartoons, please visit Randy's site @ www.glasbergen.com

...is our world actually flat?

Flattening Forces

Our ability to author our own content to send it worldwide.

Software allowing people from around the world to collaborate

and work together on projects using a shared medium.

Tools to develop and upload web content.

Increased community collaboration.

Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

“It’s amazing in many ways that in just a few short years, we have gone from a Web that was primarily “read only” to one where creating content is almost as easy as consuming it. One where writing and publishing in the forms of blogs and wikis and podcasts and many other such tools is available to everyone. One where we can connect not just to content but to people and ideas and conversations as well .”

Richardson (2006) www.edutopia.org/1648

Web 1.0...when <center> and <blink> ruled the net

http://www.complexify.com/buttons/

“The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence” O’Reilly (2005).

Wikipediadel.icio.us

FlickrGoogle Documents

WebNote

skrbl

wikispaces

blogger

BubbleShare

Google Video blip.tv

EyeSpot

Revver

Web applicationGooglewikipediawiki

Web browserNetscapeBritannica OnlineContent Management System

Publishing Participation

O’Reilly (2005) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 2.0...what is it?

...so how are we interacting in the real world and how does this compare with what is happening in our classrooms?

How relevant is the traditional school model

when learning can take place anywhere?

If we can’t control it...do we block it?

How are we adding value to learning?

Can teaching be more about empowering

students to learn through making

connections rather than depending on us to

provide for them?

Are we aiming to facilitate for students ways of working with others who have similar concerns and interests to themselves?

As a result......will these strategies facilitate a better understanding of their world and develop new and creative ways of looking at things?

...will they learn how to action change and respond to what is important in their lives and find out how to do things better?

Can Web 2.0 add value to collaborative inquiry?

“It is people at all levels in any system who are the means by which visions, aspirations and aims become operational realities, whether or not those involve the use of ICT”

Fullan and Stiegelbauer (1991).

I'm acutely aware of how my perspective is still driven by my existing conceptions and experiences

“I'm acutely aware of how my perspective is still driven by my existing conceptions and experiences”

George Siemans responding to The Machine is Us/ing us

(March 2, 2007)

“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to

deal with a world that no longer exist. Eric Hoffer

"School is so out of step with society"

Seymour Papert, 2002

“ Social networks will soon be as ubiquitous as regular Web sites......they are aiming to create tools to let ordinary people, large companies and even presidential candidates create social Web sites tailored for their own customers, friends, fans and employees”

Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen

Children believe everything is clickable ...even their parents.

Sun Micorsystems CEO - Vinod Khosla