Slide 1 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Exploding Education’s Limits: Unlocking Learning with Web 2.0. Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D
Mount Saint Mary College
NY, USA
Slide 2 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What is this Session About? Learning and Teaching in the 21 Century
Concepts: defined
Web 2.0: Unlocking Learning WiZiQ Public Session, 2008
Slide 3 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Context: Concepts defined Web 2.0 Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Slide 4 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 - Jot down your thoughts on the whiteboard…
Slide 5 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Context: Concepts defined Web 2.0 is a new generation of Internet-based services and tools based on the interactive platform, in which content is created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along.
People are having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a social network (Stephen Downes).
In Web 2. 0, information flows in multiple directions, is user-generated, and widely shared with the community of learners.
Slide 6 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What does it do to Learning Teaching ? What is Learning in the new educational context?
The process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new content, concepts through testing, playing, sharing the info with different audiences; it brings the learner on a different level of operating – global, participatory, motivated, meaningful and rewarding.
What is Teaching in the Information Age?
The process of constant learning of how to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world of flowing and frowning information.
Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 : 7 Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Source: Padcar Slideshare Teaching 1.0
T S
Delivery – Word, Text, Web
T = Authority
S = Reader
S = passive Teaching 2.0
T= S=L
World Community
Producer
Collaborator
Contributor
Writer, reader
Participatory
Engaged
Slide 8 : 8/14/2008 8 Dr. Ludmilla Smirnova Producing
Designing
Re-mixing
Mashing
Sharing
Uploading
Commenting Annotating
Blogging
Tagging =Categorizing Organizing
Bookmarking
Validating
Searching/
Googling
Access
A. Church, 2008 J. Bruner, 1960 B. Bloom, 1956 Collaborating,
Learning Together
Slide 9 : MODELS Behavioral
Information-
Processing
Social Interactive
Personal Direct/Deductive Indirect/Inductive Indirect/Interactive Indirect/
Independent Study METHODS, ICT Strategies How? Lectures, Presentations, Tutorials, Drill & Practice Inquiry, WebQuests, WIPs, WebBits Jigsaw, Role Play, Collaborative Internet Projects, PBL 8/14/2008 9 Dr. Ludmilla Smirnova Derived from : Joyce & Weil, 1986
Last retrieved Aug. 11 from http://www.sasklearning.gov.sk.ca/docs/policy/approach/instrapp03.html
Slide 10 : Where is (R)evolution?
Slide 11 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 Active Learning Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
Web 2.0: Three Facets of Learning 2.0 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0: Three Facets of Learning 2.0 Design – users want a rich user-experience
Open source – you never start from scratch
(Google, RSS)
Communications – Social Media put users in control of the conversations. This results in:
Every user is a writer, publisher (Blogger, wiki)
A Designer, producer (Podcast, iTunes)
An Expert (wikipedia)
A Broadcaster (YouTube, google video)
An Editor/Critic of the network (wiki)
Syndicated (RSS, Feed) Learning 2.0 is unlocked – it is about constructing meaning with Web 2.0 tools: learners are creating, remixing, collaborating, sharing it with the global community of learners.
Slide 13 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0: Exploding Limits Source: http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/web2-seminar
Slide 14 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What Makes Web 2.0 a good Platform for the for Engaged Learning? User-friendly interface
Constructivist nature and premise
Design structure and functionality
Availability of Tools:
Forum
Blogs
Wiki
Choices/Polls
Mashups: Compatibility with lots of other programs and tools
Slide 15 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 Tools for Active Learning Mind-Mapping:
Mind-Mapping Sites
Collaboration:
Google Docs
Zoho
Wiki
Communication:
WizIQ
Elluminate
Social Media:
del.icio.us
Diigo
Slide 16 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 17 : Networks, Projects I am in: Whiteboardchallenge
Jess McCulloch Nellie Deutsch
Slide 18 : WiZiQ
Slide 19 : Live Communication with Elluminate Elluminate
Challenges in Teaching /Learning : 20 Challenges in Teaching /Learning Reliability
Validity
Security
Copyright
Lack of experimentation
Research
Evaluation
Safety
Access
Slide 21 : CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Resources: You Tube about Web 2.0
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
Web 2.0: Social Revolution
What is Moodle?
Virtual Learning Environment
Blendededu.com - Social Media Resources for Learning in the Digital Aged
Teaching for Tomorrow