Web 2'0 and the personal learning experience of the net generation

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Web 2.0 and the personal learning experience of
the net generation

• Scott Wilson

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Topics

• Net-gen Some very conservative predictions
• Net-gen tools and the web 2.0 architecture
• Personal Learning Environments

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Net-gen

• Net-gen learners and teachers are only the
  vanguard for a set of general technology trends
  that are crossing the adoption chasm
• What can we predict about the near future? Ive
  looked at a few sources for ideas
• Pew Internet Project, DataMonitor, CriticalPath,
  UK NSO, DigitalCenter.org, SmartInternet, Various
  other websites

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Access

• UK Mobile phone ownership already over 100 in
  2005
• Broadband in 8m households and rising. Expected
  to peak at 60 in 2008
• Computer ownership to peak at 70 in 2008
• Trend is firmly towards laptops with Wi-Fi

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Access

• iPod/MP3 portable ownership at around 12 in
  2005, heavily skewed to 18-28 age group.
• Typical capacity of MP3 players grown from 64Mb
  to 20Gb since 2001

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Access

• Current mobile phone data services are primitive
• However, strong indications of demand for
  mobile-based email, and full mobile internet
  access Skype Mobile
• Products like Nokia LifeBlog indicate a shift
  away from perception of content delivery as prime
  driver of data traffic to SOSO

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Access

• Sensor technology such as GPS, combined with web
  services for weather, traffic, are already
  experiencing heavy adoption
• This trend is likely to continue with more
  devices being location and context aware and
  adaptive

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Prediction 1

• By 2010 at the latest, all learners accessing
  education will already possess a portable network
  device with substantial storage capacity,
  wireless/mobile internet access, processing
  capacity, and context adaptability. They will
  expect ubiquitous wireless/mobile access.

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Media Psychology

• Existing trend of timeshifting media
• Examples podcasts, TiVo/Sky
• Trend is towards personal scheduling of media
  instead of adopting the broadcasters schedule
• Note also trends of shuffle control and
  playlisting of music, and channel-hopping
• Aggregation vs. Portals - personal instead of
  personalized

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Time

• Gap between action and effect in social networks
  is rapidly contracting with 24-hr timeshifted
  activity taking place across the world
• Demands increasing across all aspects of
  electronic activity for immediate feedback and
  24-hr access

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Prediction 2

• Learners will expect education services and
  resources to be capable of being timeshifted to
  suit their schedules, rather than the other way
  around. They will expect the ability to mix,
  re-arrange, and otherwise adapt educational
  offerings to suit their needs.

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Media Participation

• The write web is matching the read web
• Web now established as a communications medium,
  not a media delivery platform
• Rise of citizen journalism, citizen science,
  cyberactivism, the pro-amateur

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Media Participation

• Participatory culture seeping into other media,
  such as TV (Big Brother, X-Factor, TV gambling,
  TV pornography)
• 2-way channel between maker and audience becoming
  the norm
• Increasingly, individuals acting as agents as a
  result of internet disintermediation

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Media Participation

• Blogging and Moblogging a cultural phenomenon
  experiencing hyperadoption
• Dramatic rise in uptake of social software
• Personal presence mechanisms still basic, but
  potential for development
• Community features and collaborative filtering
  becoming an expected component for any online
  services

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Prediction 3

• Learners will be increasingly media-aware, and
  will be immersed in participatory culture through
  TV, radio, and the internet. They will be more
  experienced communicators in a range of media,
  and will expect a high degree of participation.
  They will already have their own publishing
  channels

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Free and connected

• Internet culture favours free (as in beer)
  products, services, and communities
• Wikipedia, open-source, free email, free weblogs,
  free instant messaging, are just the beginning
• Barriers between internet services and
  applications collapsing as web service provision
  expands RSS/Atom/APIs

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Prediction 4

• Learners wont expect to pay for technology, if
  anything theyll expect to be paid for using it.
• Educational services will be expected to
  integrate with leisure and work services, just
  like everything else does
• Learners will already be part of several online
  communities when they enter education, and will
  continue to operate in these networks, and rely
  upon them for peer recommendations and reputation

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Net-gen Today

• What are net-gen learners using right now?
• What are net-gen teachers doing right now?

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Net-gen Technology

• Community-oriented blogging and identity
  formation networks
• MySpace, Bebo, LiveJournal
• Community-augmented sharing networks
• Flickr, YouTube
• Matchmaking and goal-pursuit services
• 43Things, online dating

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Net-gen Technology

• Collective collaborative filtering
• Del.icio.us, Technorati
• Shared applications
• Writely, BaseCamp
• Free ubiquitous communication services
• AIM, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, Gmail, Gtalk
• Collective knowledge management
• Wikipedia, other wikis

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Net-gen technology Infrastructure

• Interconnection between services to add value
• RSS, Atom syndication
• FOAF
• Service APIs
• Picture-in-Picture

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Net-gen technology Infrastructure

• Common services across services
• Contextualized commerce services
• Contextualized search services
• Distributed Identity management

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Net-gen teachers

• There is an emerging group of educators who are
  exploiting web 2.0 technologies to innovate in
  their practice
• Blogging, use of wikis and collaboration spaces,
  social bookmarking, Flickr etc.
• Anxieties abound about the connections these make
  with the community outside the school/college/univ
  ersity/company

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The PLE Project Concepts

• Multiple-context learning
• Formal and informal learning networks
• Role-switching
• Asymmetric spaces
• Self-organisation
• Integrated identity

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PLE Project Approach

• Top-down Scenario development, theory-driven
  analysis (Heidegger, Winograd Flores, Beer)
• Bottom-up Pattern analysis grounded in current
  and emerging applications and services,
  examination of existing models
• Exploratory Prototype development, service
  specification and development

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Theory

• Viable systems and organisational cybernetics
• The standing reserve of the learner
• Power of instruments - are they a transparent
  medium?
• Conversation for action - Flores and Winograd on
  work and commitment

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Patterns

• Wide choice of systems examined that have
  characteristics of interest
• From the systems we emerge common patterns into a
  pattern language
• The pattern language is applied to the
  development of prototypes

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Models
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Constructing a model
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Prototypes

• PLEX (Eclipse)
• PLEWeb (Liferay)
• HOWEVER, the PLT solution is not necessarily a
  solution
• Interrelated desktop tools (e.g.
  ThunderbirdOpenOfficeNetNewsWireTrillian)
• Network of interrelated online personal tools
  (e.g. del.icio.usMySpaceFlickrGMail (etc))

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Thats All Folks!

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• s.wilson_at_bangor.ac.uk