Education Today and Tomorrow

Web 2.0: Imagine the Possibilities

Knowledge is specific content Learners are empty vessels to be filled with knowledge

Knowledge is created Learning is a collaborative social endeavor

A Paradigm Shift

Horizon Report 2007 Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years  One year or less Social Networking User-Created Content  Two-Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds  Four-Five Years New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Tools for Collaboration Communication Distribution Organization

Communication Social Networks Instant Messaging, VoIP and Video Conferencing in one simple to use package

Blogs

Distribution Flickr/Picasa  Share image collections Slideshare  Upload and share presentations Wikis  wikispaces  pbwiki Podcasts

YouTube--TeacherTube Invention of the Year, 2006

Organization Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us)del.icio.us  Storing, sharing bookmarks--search by tags to find useful Internet research links.  The Penntags project at the University of Pennsylvania (  Harvard’s H2O ( Social Calendaring  Shared agendas for events arrangements and meetings planning RSS Reader Personalized homepage

Tools for Collaboration Blogs Wikis Podcasts

What are Blogs? Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages  Automated updating  Reverse chronological postings  May accommodate responses Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs 

Limited Only by Your Imagination Instructors  Content-related blog as professional practice  Networking and personal knowledge sharing  Instructional tips for students  Course announcements and readings  Annotated links Students  Reflective or writing journals  Assignment submission and review  Dialogue for groupwork  E-portfolios  Share course-related resources

Sample Educational Blogs Online Research Blog  eCornell Research Blog eCornell Research Blog Info-Commons Blog  commons-blog commons-blog Educational Bloggers Network  EBN blog EBN blog Science Blog  Science Blog Science Blog

Wikis: The ultimate collaboration tool  Special web site  allows visitors to add, remove, edit & change content  Not need access to or knowledge of web publishing software  Collaboration  Group members work on common document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Dictionary Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wiki’s in Education Econ 482: Stephen Greenlaw Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Sean Luke Harvard Law School Eckerd College

Wikibooks

Boston College Gerald Kane, assistant professor of information systems Gerald Kane  post papers on the wiki to be reviewed by other students before turn in for grade  Create own exam questions and answers—post on wiki for peer editing (pool of 350 questions)  Easily update information as world events change—collaborative effort -Computerworld, 2007

Horizon Project Collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations  Camilla, GA (10th grade)  Vienna, Austria (11th grade)  Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)  Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)  Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

Podcasting Pod (iPod) + broadcast = Podcast Differs from streaming audio  Automatically delivered to player – don't have to click on a link to download  Listen when you want – not when a program is scheduled

Why is podcasting appealing for learning and teaching? Appeals to the digital natives Easy and low cost  create  distribute Caters to different learning styles

Advantages Students  Review lectures before exams  Listen in on classes they've missed  Replay at own convenience  Non-native speakers replay to increase comprehension Instructors  Listen to own lectures to improve presentations

Learning & Teaching Applications Interviews with experts Oral history projects Quotes from recorded speeches Answers to posted questions Guest speakers / lecture series Student submissions /portfolios / placement logs

Universities Podcasting iTunes U ( nes_u/) nes_u/  Duke University  University of Illinois  Stanford  UC Berkley Purdue University University of Washington