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Learning 2.0: Using the Social Web to Promote Collaborative

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Steve Wheeler

University of Plymouth

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In this workshop…

–What is Learning 2.0?–Why we need Learning 2.0–Web 2.0–Tagging and ‘folksonomies’–Wisdom of crowds–Choose your Web 2.0 tools ©

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Your workshop Blog

I have made a blog for this workshop at:

http://icl08.blogspot.com

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Learning 2.0 ... what is

it?

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Source: http://msmvps.com/photos/robfarley/images/211148/original.aspx

Source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/322112273_1fd19bade5.jpg

‘Digital natives are always connected’ - Prensky

Source: http://www.prensky.com

Digital Natives

Digital Immigrants

Analogues

Source: http://www.joiningdots.net

Digital Natives

Digital Immigrants

Analogues

Think... the Internet was introduced into schools around 1995.

In 2008, 18 year olds starting their studies in university will be the first never to have known a time in their education when they did not have the Internet. These are the true ‘digital natives’.

The gap is widening...

....from this.

To this....

What has actually changed?

The answer is in the room...

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What is the Social Web?

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Britannica Wikipedia

Personal Website Blogging

Page views Cost per click

Publishing Participation

Content Management Wiki

Directories (Taxonomy) Tagging (Folksonomy)

‘Stickiness’ Syndication

Maps Mapping (Mashup)

Source: Tim O’Reilly http://www.oreillynet.com

How many

tools do you use?

Trends in educationStable

Subject-basedDelivered wisdom

One size fits allIndividualised

NationalOne to many

InteractiveCurriculum

centredTeaching

AgileProject-basedUser generated contentPersonalisationCollaborativeGlobalPeer to peerParticipativeLearner centredLearning

(Adapted from Heppell, 2006)

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Categorising

• The human race has an innate need to collect, classify and store.

• We have a deep seated need to understand.

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What happened there? Why?

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Which shape appears the most times?

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Which shape appears the most times?

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Which shape appears the most times?

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How many

tools could you use?

Some Learning 2.0 tools…

Wiki

Blog

Flickr (Photo sharing)

YouTube (Video sharing)

Twitter (Micro blog)

Twemes (Aggregator)

How could you use any of these in your own teaching context?

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Think...

• What would you use them for?

• How would your students use them?

• What added value would they bring?

• What might be the problems?

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Some final

thoughts....

Rhizomatic Learning““A rhizomatic plant has no

centre and no defined boundary; rather, it is made up of a number of semi-independent nodes, each of which is capable of growing and spreading on its own, bounded only by the limits of its habitat.”

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Rhizomatic Learning

““In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, [and is] a personal knowledge-creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.”

Source: Cormier, D. (2008) http://davecormier.com/edblog/

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Web 2.0: the Social Web

“The social web is transforming the way people use the Internet to do business, access information and connect with each other. It has revolutionised the way we are entertained, and altered forever the way we learn”.

Source: John, P. & Wheeler, S. (2008)

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What they said…

“The likes of Google, Amazon, and EBay take the intelligence of all their users…and put it in the interface” – Tim O’Reilly

“Web 2.0 is the architecture of participation” – Eugene Barsky

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Learning 2.0 on the Social Web

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Can you afford

to miss out?

Thank you

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk

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