Exploding Educatin's Limits with Web 2.0

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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

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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

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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.

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CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 - Jot down your thoughts on the whiteboard…

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Where is (R)evolution?

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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.

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CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0: Exploding Limits Source: http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/web2-seminar

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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

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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

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CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII

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Networks, Projects I am in: Whiteboardchallenge Jess McCulloch Nellie Deutsch

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WiZiQ

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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

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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