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The Language Classroom in a Connected World Michael Coghlan PacCALL Conference (Nanjing) November 18, 2006 This presentation on the web at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/pd/PacCall.htm A GLOBAL AUDIENCE? YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= QjA5faZF1A8 Performance by a 13 yr old Korean boy November 15: 10.7 million views; 22,900 comments That’s more than the populations of Israel 5.7m Denmark 5.3m Finland 5.1m New Zealand 3.6m Ireland 3.6m DIGITAL STORY PLAYED AT THIS POINT AVAILABLE AT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pue4FtOb3HM WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? Is it real? Who are these 10.7 million people? Copyright implications? – I can reuse the content for my own purposes Who is exercising editorial control? Disintermediation – the decline of the gatekeepers of content Should students have access to sites like this? (see ‘YouTube – a Class Act’) How do students like this feel at school? Should we be encouraging our students 1. 2. to create content Publish to these kinds of sites Empowerment through personal publishing to public sites MIT; Jason and TV shows….. TODAY’S AGENDA Local v Global Notions of presence Personal Publishing/Social Software eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0 Connectivism/Networked Learning An example in practice My Story ESL classroom teacher 1987 – 1997 1997 – went online Blended ESL teaching 1997 – 2000 Volunteer teaching for EFI (English for the Internet) founded by David Winet ESL online 1997 – 2004 Founding member of the Webheads online English teaching and learning community Current: facilitator on the Graduate Certificate in eLearning (TAFE SA); eLearning Networks of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework LOCAL V GLOBAL Is local necessarily best? Daily contact with the planet In the supermarket? My neighbours are not my closest companions Australian made products are made offshore Overseas call centres LOCAL LOCAL = GLOBAL (GLOCAL?) Implications for the Classroom? The Local Pre-Global World all dialogue was between teacher and students with some communication between students (but who was really listening?) Internet enter Internet tools: writing/speaking for an audience other than just your teacher ie authentic contexts for language learning The Global World Personal publishing tools Teachers and students can now reach a global audience Moot point: does everyone find this idea appealing? PERSONAL PUBLISHING TOOLS Blogs Digital story telling podcasts Flickr (photo sharing) Wikis (Wikispaces.com) – collaborative workspace MySpace, Friendster Video repositories: YouTube, Google Video, BlipTV PRESENCE IN THE PAST (Local) PresenceIdentityRelationships Trust based almost exclusively on face to face (f2f) contact, or persons you know who refer you to those they have met and trust (eg relatives and friends when travelling) PRESENCE IN THE PRESENT TIME Relationships can be forged with people you have not met, and may never meet independent of time and space ie the Internet affords the possibility of global presence CREATING ONLINE PRESENCE How do you do it? Why bother creating an online presence? Why might teachers create an online presence? You will get wider recognition Wider network of professional and personal contacts Greater variety of options for learning activities Place to store and record resources Why might students create an online presence? For students: Developing skills for the knowledge era Access to personal publishing tools for selfexpression and realisation of identity Excitement at publishing for a wider audience: “Thank you so much for being such supportive, all of you! I hope to continue my learning process and get ready to speak and write in English. I was really surprised to see all the people who wrote about our wiki. It's so cool because it was from all different places of the world... I think that's so great! :)” (Maria, Venezuela) COGNITIVE PRESENCE SOCIAL PRESENCE TEACHING PRESENCE Garrison & Anderson: elearning in the 21st century COGNITIVE PRESENCE SOCIAL PRESENCE COMMUNITY/CONNECTED PRESENCE TEACHING PRESENCE Garrison & Anderson: elearning in the 21st century A Paradigm Shift? Or is this the Paradigm Shift required? COMMUNITY-CENTRIC (diagram courtesy of James Farmer) Who are the Webheads? “an experiment in world friendship through online language learning” 300 + members Where are the Webheads? To join the Webhead community send an email to [email protected] in approximately 50 countries ONLINE PRESENCE How do you do it? “I blog therefore I am.” Weblog search engine Technorati says it is now tracking over three million weblogs, with 8,000 -17,000 new blogs created every single day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds. …. about 55 per cent of the weblogs are still active three months later. The number of conversations are increasing to over 275,000 individual posts a day. On average, approx 3 blogs are updated every second. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/13/8000_bloggers_per_day/ (13/4/06) MEDIA RICH BLOGS http://english-ad.blogspot.com/ by students of Aiden Yeh MULTILITERACY DIGITAL LITERACY ELITERACY Aiden is an EFL Lecturer, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages Kaohsiung, Taiwan MOVIE ORAL PRESENTATIONS FOR A GLOBAL AUDIENCE From Buthaina al Othman (Kuwait) http://alothmanb.tripod.com/present_162.htm -------------------------------------COLLABORATION: The Student List Project at http://sl-lists.net/ The Internet – more than just a book CONVERSATION SOCIAL SOFTWARE Social software lets people rendezvous, connect or collaborate by use of a computer network . (Clay Shirky) CONNECTION Relevance for you? your students???? eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0 (Stephen Downes) Elearning 1.0: static packaged content little true interactivity and learner input and very little contact with teacher represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT, Blackboard) Elearning 2.0: more student-centred students generate and share content. they interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the world they can learn from. (this description courtesy of Sean Fitzgerald) THE CULTURAL CONTEXT Does teacher know best? Image courtesy of http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/test/education/1-2-14.html Students may be connected (via the Net and their phones), but do they seriously believe they can learn from each other? ePORTFOLIOS See Dr. Helen Barrett's work on Electronic Portfolios: http://electronicpor tfolios.com/ Image courtesy of http://www.weiterbildungsblog.de/archives/cat_eportfolios.html CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens, Red River Community College, Canada) Principles of Connectivism: Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision. HOW DO YOU TRANSLATE ALL THIS INTO CLASSROOM PRACTICE? IN CONCLUSION….. Mapping the cultural emphases ofofemerging software practicestools sharing knowledgesocial emphases the cultural Mapping Institutionally driven Culture of compliance Informal Emergent Bottom-up norms, not rules of e n Li r inc sin a e g y nc e g la a on rs e p Formal Top-down rules for creation, operation and governance Enabling Culture Member driven From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005 IN CONCLUSION: Is it time for NALL? (Network Assisted Language Learning) a connected classroom, connected living (Nancy White: ‘eliving’) DOES reduce the time you have available to attend to relationships locally. And THAT is a very interesting and confronting thought……. From a student of Konrad Glogowski: “Hello Mr. Glogowski It’s Phil, just in case you haven’t guessed already. I’d just like to thank you for a great year of blogging, and to wish you luck in the years ahead. You really managed to make a few of us into writers. I think writing/blogging will be something I’ll carry with me my whole life.” (http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/) THANK YOU This presentation on the web at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/pd/PacCALL.htm Email: [email protected] Promo: Podcasting Education and Mobile Assisted Language Learning http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp