learning 2.0 in a military context

Learning 2.0in a Military Context

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

What is Learning 2.0?

How does it fit into a military training context?

Theory of relativity

Didactics and Education

<binary or spectrum?>

Instruction

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Leading and directing

Drill and practice

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Pedagogy

Leading but not directing

Facilitation but not instruction

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Construction

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construct knowledge for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artefacts with shared meanings. When one is immersed within a culture of this sort, one is learning all the time about how to be a part of that culture on many levels.

Source: Wikipedia

Connection

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creating connections and developing a network. It is a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent properties, and self organised learning.

(It’s not what you know but who you know)

Source: Wikipedia

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

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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Progression

Instructionism = Personal computer

Constructionism = Web 1.0

Connectionism = Web 2.0

Self organised = Web 2.0 + Mobile + ?

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4 stages of learning +1 (Baume)

• Unconsciously Incompetent

• Consciously Incompetent

• Consciously Competent

• Unconsciously Competent

• Reflective Competence

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Increasing skill & know

ledge

Baume’s model

What is Web 2.0?

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What is the Social Web?

Web 1.0

Britannica

Personal Website

Page views

Publishing

Content Management

Directories (Taxonomy)

‘Stickiness’

Maps

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

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

Still can’t get a

signal...

@#! Internet Explorer’s

down again!

3 months without a tweet...

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Now find Google maps...

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... and it’s self organised

We cannot ‘manage’ self-organised learning for our students.

We can only create conducive environments within which students will organise their own learning.

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Self organised learning

Formal and Informal learning

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Formal Learning Informal Learning

Self organised learning

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Formal Learning Informal Learning

Self Organised Learning

In SOL students take responsibility for their

own learning and put this into successful action.

Source: http://www.equal-works.com

How can we create spacesfor self organised learning?

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Modes of learningInformalFormal

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Collaborative

ReflectiveE-portfolios

Essay writing

Group workCo-operative learning

Social networking

BloggingMicroblogging

Nomadic learningA form of learning in which a

learner has continuous access to services through sessions

and possibly through different locations.

Source: http://www.erudium.polymtl.ca/

Learning ‘on the move’

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Who are the nomadic learners?

• Military (Royal Marines and Navy)• Police• Prison service• Nursing and midwifery• Medicine and health• Business• Other itinerant professions

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blogging?•web log <online diary>•others can read and comment

•conversation

Telemachus and Mentor

In Greek mythology Odysseus of Ithaca went to fight in the Trojan War and entrusted the care of his son, Telemachus, to an older and wiser friend, Mentor.

Telemachus and Mentor developed a strong relationship built on the foundations of guidance and support.

The word “mentor” has become synonymous with teacher, counsellor, coach, facilitator, motivator and friend.

Telematic Mentoring

Geographical Distance

Online reflective diary (shared between 2 people)

Mentoring on the move through Moblogging (Mobile blogging)

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Trends in Education

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Just in case

Just in time

Just for me

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Standard Curriculum

Bespoke Curriculum

Personalised Learning

Personal Learning Environment

A system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes

providing support for learners to

Personal Learning Environment

Source: Wikipedia

set their own learning goals

manage their learning

communicate with others

What does my own personal learning

environment look like?

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Devices Interface Tools

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My Personal Learning Environment

Devices Interface Tools

My Personal Learning Environment

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Document search

Image search

ScholarGoogleBooks

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Search for reading materials

Web

Devices Interface Tools

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Reflective blog postand amplification

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My Personal Learning Environment

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Image sharing and amplification

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My Personal Learning Environment

Personal Learning

Environment

Blog

LMS

Social NetworkSocial

Network

External Services Web

2.0

E-Portfolio

AggregatorAggregator

Adapted from David Delgado, 2007

Personal Learning Environment Model

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External Services Web

2.0

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Institutionallymanaged

Adapted from David Delgado, 2007

E-Portfolio

AggregatorAggregator

Social NetworkSocial

Network

Personal Learning Environment Model

Blog

LMS

Personal Learning

Environment

E= MC2

How can we manage the tensions between the chaos, democracy and openness of Web 2.0 and the precisely structured and disciplined requirements of military training?

Thank you for listening

Steve WheelerFaculty of EducationUniversity of Plymouth

W: www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearningE: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com