Growing up digital workshop

NZCETA conference, Christchurch, 19 July, 2013
Growing up
Digital

THE DIGITAL LEARNER
•  2001 – iPod released
•  2002 – NCEA introduced
•  2010 – iPad released
•  2012 – NCEA level 1
(includes programming)
•  1989 – Concept floated for
WWW
•  1989 – Tomorrow’s Schools
•  1993 - First browser
released
•  1995 – WWW comes to NZ
BORN 1997

1990s The  
computer room
BBC
1980s: the
standalone school 
computer 

 
A National Education
Network?
The school  
network
1995-2010
4 DECADES OF ICT IN NZ SCHOOLS
Adapted from Becta 2004
Stand
alone
computer
WWW -
consume
Social
networks
Intelligent
web

MOBILE TRENDS
•  mLearning – in the
classroom and workplace
•  BYOD – Bring your own
device
•  “snack” learning
•  Location-based
integration and
workplace training
•  Cloud computing
•  Rewind learning
http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/6-mobile-learning-trends-that-grew-in-2012/

CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how significantly
student access to technology has
changed their expectations as
learners?

AGENCY
•  “The power to act”
•  “Sense of ownership”
•  “Executing and controlling
one’s own actions”
•  “Self-efficacy”
•  “Personalisation”

WE LIVE IN A PERSONALISED WORLD
•  My watchlist (on Trademe)
•  My personal banking
•  My travel planner
•  MySky
•  My portfolio
•  MyYoutube channels
•  My…
•  AGENCY is key!

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
Washor, E and Mohkowski, C (2013) Leaving to learn
Do my teachers really know
about me and my interests and
talents?
Do I find what the school is
teaching relevant to my
interests?
Do I have opportunities to apply
what I am learning in real world
settings and contexts?
Do I feel appropriately
challenged in my learning?
Can I pursue my learning out
of the standard sequence?
Do I have sufficient time to
learn at my own pace?
Do I have real choice
about what, where
and how I learn?
Do I have opportunities to
explore and make
mistakes?
Do I have opportunities to engage
deeply in my learning and to practice
the skills I need to lean?

•  Thinks differently
•  Easily bored
•  Risk taker – risk averse
•  Good at sales
•  Future focused
•  Task focused
•  …

CHALLENGES
•  Do our learners have to adapt to
our way of doing things, or do
we adapt to theirs?
•  Are we focused on delivery – or
learning experience?

•  Open
•  Distributed
•  Scalable
•  Social
generative
•  Networked
•  Self-organised
•  Adaptive
•  Global
An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of
information in an era of knowledge is doomed to fail.
Information today is…
George Siemens: Connectivism –
a theory of learning for the networked age
http://www.connectivism.ca/

School A
Groups
NETWORKED LEARNING
Network PLN
Federally organised
Collections of entities
Collaborative
Networked knowledge
Externally organised
Single entity
Competitive
Knowledge transfer
Personally organised
Association of entities
Connected
Personal knowledge
The way networks learn is the way individuals learn

NETWORKS
•  redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence,
privacy, publics,
geography.
•  enable learning,
communication,
sharing, collaboration,
community.
•  networks form around
shared interests &
objects

CHALLENGES
•  What theories of learning
underpin our current models of
teaching and learning? Are these
still relevant in the digital age?
•  How might we need to adapt as
teachers and organisations to
work effectively as nodes on a
network?

Now let’s focus on the learning –
isn’t that what should drive our
decision making?

WHAT LEARNING ACTIVITY OCCURS?
Collaborative
wiki writing
Paint a picture
Write an
essay
Skype an
‘expert’
Assessment
interview
Make a chart
Perform a
play
Silent reading Watching a
video
Research on
the web
Feedback on
blog
Maintain a
portfolio
Maintain a
blog
Make a movie
Writing a play
Group
discussion
Listening to
the teacher
Video conf.
Gather data
Make a
speech

WHAT LEARNING ACTIVITY OCCURS?
Collaborative
wiki writing
Paint a picture
Write an
essay
Skype an
‘expert’
Assessment
interview
Make a chart
Perform a
play
Silent reading
Watching a
video
Research on
the web
Feedback on
blog
Maintain a
portfolio
Maintain a
blog
Make a movie
Writing a play
Group
discussion
Listening to
the teacher
Video conf.
Gather data
Make a
speech
Engaging with
existing
knowledge
Creating new
knowledge
Celebrating and
sharing ideas
and knowledge
Understanding
“how am I
doing?”

BIG QUESTIONS
•  What is your school’s framework for pedagogical
decision making?
•  Is it grounded in a shared view of 21st century
pedagogy?
•  Is it transparent to all stakeholders?
•  Is it used as a reference for all decision making?

Check – “how am I going?”
Learn
access and engage
with existing
knowledge
Create
Activities that results
in the development of
new knowledge
Share
Communicating and
sharing knowledge
with others
LearningandTeaching
Ubiquity
learning anywhere,
anytime, any pace, any
deice. Home-school-
community. Life-long
and life-wide
Agency
The power to act.
Learner choice and
control. Personalised,
adaptive, differentiated
Connectedness
Collaborative. Social
knowledge construction
in communities.
Connectivism.

Services
Etc.
Infrastructure
Streaming
media
Online
sharing
sites
Content
hosting
ePortfolios
Mobile
devices
Content
hosting SMS/LMS
Cloud
services
Wikis-
blogs
Etc.
3G or 4G
access
No data
caps
ISP
International
links
Wireless
access
UFB to
home
Fibre to
server
filtering
Wikis-
blogs

Services
Etc.
Infrastructure
Streaming
media
Online
sharing
sites
Content
hosting
ePortfolios
Mobile
devices
Content
hosting SMS/LMS
Cloud
services
Wikis-
blogs
Etc.
3G or 4G
access
No data
caps
ISP
International
links
Wireless
access
UFB to
home
Fibre to
server
filtering
Etc.

Derek Wenmoth
Email: derek@core-ed.org
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek
Skype: <dwenmoth>

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