Learner-expectations, technology and formal/informal learning
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The document discusses how technology impacts learning and learner expectations. It explores both the formal and informal ways that students integrate technologies like social media into their studies. It also addresses challenges like ensuring an online presence supports one's academic goals and career without inappropriate personal details becoming visible.
Learner-expectations, technology and formal/informal learning
- 1. Learner-expectations, technology and formal/informal learning Lawrie Phipps JISC Users and Innovation Programme Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting education and research
- 3. www.jisc.ac.uk/usersinnovation/ To create opportunities to transform practice by developing technologies and processes that support the user experience in improved and innovative ways March 2006 – March 2009 Over 30 projects looking at research, teaching and administration ‘users’ and their use of ‘innovative’ technology JISC Users and Innovation Programme
- 4. Web 2.0
- 5. The technologies are disruptive to the students’ learning and staff time, they pick up information that we haven’t given them, off the internet, and the technology is everywhere like an omnipresent technodeity
- 6. The technologies are providing new ways of engaging in discourse between peers, offering new opportunities to find knowledge and exercise creativity and the sheer breadth of the technology creates something that most people can engage with at some level
- 7. Ross The first thing I tend to do in the morning is check my e-mails Technology plays a big part in my learning I like to discuss my course online The V L what? Oh yeah, I use that (I think) but mostly we use facebook and MSN My ipod is for my music I’d never heard of web 2.0 until today – I’ve always done this stuff
- 9. One of our ‘Users’: Jane I don’t do technology! I don’t do technology!
- 10. A Mature Student’s backpack Jeff AKA: Taliesinphoenix
- 11. Why use web 2.0 tools?
- 12. One size doesn't fit all!
- 13. But…
- 15. Knowledge is no longer linear Technology impacts on the way we learn. The tools we use define and shape our brains Know how and know what is being replace by know where Recognises that ‘we’ need to stay current in a rapidly changing technology environment
- 16. Rhizomes as a metaphor for supporting learning Facilitated by flexible, adaptable and rapid technology deployment Connectivism as a technology approach supports this style
- 17. PhD Students and Blogging Why Blog? Knowledge Exchange (free) Decentralised debate Strong diversity of readers/contributors Establish / belong to community Practice writing… Blogging as a way of building a literature review to share ideas with an overseas supervisor to practice English to get interact with the ‘subjects’ to self promote
- 18. Using the tools will leave a ‘footprint’ Dotsam The wasteland of abandoned Web sites, Hotmail accounts, blogs, wikis, MySpace pages, etc., that their creators have ignored for months or years but which remain accessible. From the footprint we can build a comprehensive profile of who you are…
- 19. Peter Steiner, 1993 NY Times
- 20. Profiles are important What PhD students said: Collaboration: finding colleagues and peers to work with Advertising or Promoting ‘you’: a way of showing what you can do Dissemination: either of information or ‘products’, where products could be ‘papers’ or ‘software’ Networking / Community Building: all online communities require you to have an online ‘persona’ Contact: a way of people finding you, perhaps after seeing a presentation or reading a paper – often they will ‘Google you’ Saving time, having an online presence is something you can send people to if they want to know more about your work etc, rather than you writing individual emails The Web is an established medium: “if you’re not on the web, you don’t exist”
- 21. The negative effects 68% of employers use search engines to check on candidates 20% of employers use “social networking” sites to run searches on job applicants Personal vs. Professional
- 22. Top ten ‘turn offs’ The top ten ‘issues’ that employers look for on social network sites 1. References to drug abuse 2. Extremist / intolerant views, including racism, sexism 3. Criminal activity 4. Evidence of excessive alcohol consumption 5. Inappropriate pictures, including nudity 6. Foul language 7. Links to unsuitable websites 8. Lewd jokes 9. Silly email addresses 10. Membership of pointless / silly groups
- 23. What PhD students added to the list… Questionable Work, you search for someone and find that there work is of ‘poor quality’, as represented online. Withdrawn research papers Poor Style, the work that is online is badly written / represented Outside Interests, inappropriate interests may be a career inhibitor, however, it is good to have some evidence of outside interest. Plagiarism, if something is on your site and is not referenced appropriately or due credit given you may attract an accusation of plagiarism Inconsistency of work (sudden shift in research area for no apparent reason) Too consistent! Citing David Icke (as an illustration of, perhaps, an inappropriate reference) All blogs and no papers (or perhaps vice versa in the current information age) Bad spelling (for which there was a general mumbling of agreement from the academic contingent)
- 24. Some thoughts to finish Connectivism the formal and informal nature of learning supports the use of a whatever technology the user/learner is comfortable with The Rhizome metaphor a model for providing support to students in their learning a model allowing us to support staff in ‘just in time’ way (CPD) Culture Change?
- 26. Acknowledgements Ideas expressed Connectivism: George Siemens ( http://www.connectivism.ca/ ) Rhizomes: Dave Cormier ( http://davecormier.com/edblog/ ) Also: Will Allen and Steve Boneham for their work on web 2.0 with the JISC programme James Farnhill for his work on identity ( http://james.jiscinvolve.org/ ) Slide 2 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauliepaul/280529273/ Slide 4 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/101793493/in/set-72057594060779001/ Slide 8 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nemone/274653767/ Slide 9 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/358487253/ Slide 11 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vieuxbandit/1987820964/ Slide 11 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/localstatic/381394413/ Slide 5 Image: http://www.uncov.com/2007/5/18/web-2-0-so-great-you-can-t-define-it Slide 6 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensheldon/