new learning environments lecture
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Being a student: New learning environments
Penelope [email protected], 2010
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Your favourite TV show
Your best friend
Your hobbies
Your favourite thing about school
Thinking back…
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They [digital natives] have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones and all the other toys and tools of the digital age…
It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.
Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants
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Digital natives & digital immigrants
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Digital Immigrants find it hard to believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music, because they (the Immigrants) can’t.
Digital Natives think randomly, are able to multi-task, and concentrate in shorter and more intensive bursts.
Natives are always ‘on the move’
The digital divide
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… our teachers who are digital immigrants see the technology as a series of ‘programs’ or ‘things’ or – in linguistic terms – nouns.
Today’s students, if they are ‘native speakers’ of digital technology view it in a very different way. They see technology as the means of getting things done: of communicating, of sharing, of presenting, etc. In linguistic terms our students see technology as verbs.
Marc Prensky
Net natives
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Assumptions underlying Prensky’s view on students:
● All (young) students are ‘Digital Natives’.
● These ‘Digital Natives’ are an homogenous group.
● These ‘Digital Natives’ are more adept with technology than their teachers.
● Everyday skills with technology will easily translate into beneficial technology-based learning.
The problem with the problem
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Home environment
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My desk at homeImage: Penelope Coutas
Murdoch University Library, 2006
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Library: Murdoch University Library, 2006Image: Murdoch Uni Library Australia http:/www.flickr.com
Murdoch University Library, 2006
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Library: Murdoch University Library, 2006Image: Murdoch Uni Library Australia http:/www.flickr.com
Food in a library environment!
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Library: Murdoch University, 2007Image: jens_wiese http://www.flickr.com
After hours access
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Library: Murdoch University, 2007Image: Murdoch Uni Library http://www.flickr.com
Libraries, but not as you know ITText your message to 0416906973 or visit http://tinyurl.com/nextlife107
Library: Amsterdam Public LibraryImage: hblowers http:/www.flickr.com
Bush court learning environment
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Bush Court, Murdoch University, 2010Image: Penelope Coutas
Outdoor classrooms
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School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, UtahImage: DesignShare.com
Green spaces indoors
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School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto,Monterrey, N.L., MexicoImage: DesignShare.com
School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto,Monterrey, N.L., MexicoImage: DesignShare.com
Early childhood education
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School: Georgetown South Child Development and Community Center,Manassas, VirginiaImage: DesignShare.com
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School: Chung Cheng High School,SingaporeImage: DesignShare.com
Outdoor study areas
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School: Suzhou Singapore International School, Suzhou, ChinaImage: DesignShare.com
Modern playgrounds
Production studios
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School: Cambridge Media Arts School, Cambridge, MassachutsettsImage: DesignShare.com
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School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New YorkImage: DesignShare.com
Activity spaces
Auditoriums
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School: New Saline High School, Saline MichiganImage: DesignShare.com
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Personal Learning Environment
What is true for you?
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I have five or more friends who I met on the ‘net. I check my email first thing in the morning. When going out in town I check the web for suggestions/directions. I share my digital photos online for friends and family to see. I post comments on other people’s blogs. I have my own blog that I update regularly. I am a member of at least one social networking site. I often chat with friends/colleagues via instant messaging software. I often share amusing websites/videos with friends and family. I don’t watch live TV, but record it and watch it when I like. I met my partner online
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Social networking =/ educational networking
What’s happening?
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Twitter(ing)
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What has their attention?
Learn from the influencers
http://twibbon.com/
Find like-minded users
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Generated by Twitter Friend Wheel http://thomas-
fletcher.com/friendwheel/twitter/
A connected network
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BackchannelForm a backchannel
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Be aware (of what’s around you)
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectacle_at_we.html
Well, I started out rough, but I was also totally off-kilter. And then, within the first two minutes, I started hearing rumblings. And then laughter. The sounds were completely irrelevant to what I was saying and I was devastated. I immediately knew that I had lost the audience. Rather than getting into flow and becoming an entertainer, I retreated into myself. I basically decided to read the entire speech instead of deliver it. I counted for the time when I could get off stage. I was reading aloud while thinking all sorts of terrible thoughts about myself and my failures. I wasn’t even interested in my talk. All I wanted was to get it over with. I didn’t know what was going on but I kept hearing sounds that made it very clear that something was happening behind me that was the focus of everyone’s attention.
danah boyd
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/augmented-realityhttp://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_augmented_reality_apps/
The ‘internet of things’
If you’re not seeing data, you’re not seeing.
Communicating
Collaborating
Creating
The “C” in ICT
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Funtwo playing “Canon Rock”, arranged by JerryC.
Read more about it:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?pagewanted=all
Communicating, collaborating, creating
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Communicating, collaborating, creating
Funtwo playing “Canon Rock”, arranged by JerryC.
Read more about it:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?pagewanted=all
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The digital divide is not just about access.
It is about also about participation.
The digital divide?
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The digital divide?
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The digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how.
Howard Rheingold
Where credits are not given, the images are my own.
Slide 2: Mobile phone image: Microsoft Office 2007 stock clipart collection.Slide 3: http://www.yearbookyourself.comSlide 7: Wesch, M. (2007). A Vision of Students Today. http://mediatedcultures.net/Slide 8: http://www.k12schoolnetworking.org/2007/images/speakers/Marc_Prensky.jpgSlide 9: Zits Cartoon htttp://www.arcamax.com/zitsSlide 11: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyefood/149368986Slides 12: Gavin DudeneySlides 15-22: Marco TorresSlide 26: Google Street View http://maps.google.comSlides 28-42: Image credits given on individual slides. Many adapted from a presentation by Matt Horne available on Slideshare.net: http://www.slideshare.net/esltechnology/school-design-be-the-changeSlide 43: Auditorium http://mackers-world.com/images/news/mac/lotsofmacs_mizzou_800.jpgSlide 44: The Year in Review, uploaded by jek in th ebox to Flickr
by jek in the box http://www.flickr.com/photos/jek-a-go-go/2157996339/sizes/o/Slide 45: Joyce SeitzingerSlide 58: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.comSlides 62 & 63: Paul FullerSlide 69: http://francisanderson.files.wordpress.com, http://blog.360dgrs.nl/, http://3dguy.tvSlides 71 & 72: Social media, uploaded by Meg Pickard to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/meg/3528372602/in/set-72157618229062033/Slide 73: http://www.toolking.com/media/catalog/product/1/8/18800025_1.jpg ; http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JNdIFdb0jFI/Smc0EyIZfII/AAAAAAAAAds/PnbD6dpZSyk/s400/cordless-drill-374.jpg ; http://www.exoticexcess.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jimmy-Choo-Zero-Mirror-Leather-Platform-Sandals-2.jpgSlide 75: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4fIRjMf-MSlide 76: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5IoSlide 78: Howard Rheingold http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/24/howard1_wideweb__470x275,0.jpgSlide 79: http://www.icanhascheezburger.com
Media Credits