This document discusses the changing landscape of online learning and education technology. It notes that while traditional tools have supported classroom-based learning, new technologies now enable immersive, learner-centered experiences. Quotes reflect that students are preparing for unknown futures and the internet resembles collaborative tools like wikis and social networks. The document advocates developing dynamic systems for immersive learning centered around student interests and connected to the wider world.

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Professional Studies 3B

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4. ... and web
tools that Blog
facilitate them
Cognition
Cooperation
Wiki
Communication
Social
Network

5. "In large states
public education
will always be
mediocre, for the
same reason that in
large kitchens the
cooking is usually
bad."
~ Nietzsche

6. “For the first time
we are preparing
students for a
future we cannot
clearly describe.”
– David Warlick

7. The Internet of 2007
It looks like nothing before…
 Like open source
 Like Social Networks
 Like blogs and blogging
 Like wikis and collaborative
writing
 Like tagging and Digg and…
It looks like Web 2.0

8. The Concept…
• Learning is centered around the interests
of the learner
• This learning is immersive – learning by
doing
• The computer connects the student to the
rest of the world

9. Online Learning at the Crossroads
• On the one hand – we have developed
tools and systems intended to support
traditional classroom based learning
• On the other hand – we could (should?)
be developing tools and systems to
support immersive learning
• We should be developing for dynamic,
immersive, living systems…

10. Self
broadcasting
cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
... Podcasting,
video sharing,
webcasting,
slidecasting...

12.  Teenage pregnancy has raised a lot since 2007
 About 10% of all U.S births in 2006 were to woman
under the age of 20
 67% of births are to teenage girls 18 and 19
 More then 750,000 teenagers get pregnant each year
 About 3 in 10 teenage girls become pregnant at least
once before age 20

13.  A baby born to a teen is at higher risk of being
premature, low weight, or resulting to death
 Babies of a teenage mother are more likely to die in
the first year of life then a baby born to a mother in
her twenties or thirties
 The risk’s of the baby dying is higher for a teen
mother under the age 15

14. Causes
Use of drugs and
alcohol
Lack of knowledge in
preventing methods

15.  Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of school
 Only 40% of teen mothers under the age of 18 go to
graduate high school, compared to 75% of teens from
similar backgrounds
 With any teenage mother that dropped out of school
she may lack certain job skills so she won’t be able to
support her child

16.  If you smoked before you got pregnant, you
should stop
 Get early and regular prenatal care
 Eat a nutritious and or balanced diet
 Stop drinking alcohol and doing illicit drugs
 Alcohol and drug use limit fetal growth and can
cause birth defects
 Avoiding all prescription and over-the-counter
drugs, unless recommended by a health care
provider who is aware of the pregnancy

17.  http://unplannedpregnancy.ning.com/
 http://teenagepregnancy.ning.com/
 http://abortionconsequences.ning.com/
 http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1159.a

19. cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010

20. All learning
begins when
our comfortable
ideas turn out to
be inadequate.
- John Dewey
http://www.dancinghearts.org

21.  http://www.downes.ca
 E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
 B: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
 http://www.dancinghearts.org
 http://www.classcaster.org
 http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcas
ts/