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Personal Technologies in Education: Issues, Theories and Debates Steve Wheeler Plymouth University, UK “The empires of the future will be empires of the mind." – Sir Winston Churchill http://en.wikipedia.org/ Factory education model? Synchronisation Compartmentalisation Batch processing Standardisation http://farm4.static.flickr.com Personalised Learning? http://www.delasallewaterford.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/ Personal windows on learning Trends in Learning & Development Just for me Apprenticeship model Just in case Bespoke Courses Standardised Courses Just in time Personalised Learning Personal Learning Environment Just for me Photo by Steve Wheeler Personal Learning Networks I store my knowledge with my friends Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner http://www.homodiscens.com http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged We are family http://pro.corbis.com Wii are family! http://wiifitnessdepot.com “The average digital birth of children happens at about six months.” http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/ http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html Digital Residents and Visitors (White & Le Cornu, 2012) Learning Webs http://sm.irsd.k12.de.us From this .... http://blogs.silverlight.net ..... To this The VLE “Institutions that useVLEs are in danger of turning the Web back into a funnel” (Wheeler, 2009) http://www.chemistryland.com • Access to learning resources at any time • Ability to connect to and learn with others • Opportunity to publicly share what has been learnt - Ivan Illich (1970) Image source: http://www.radio-canada.ca The First Mobile Phone Personal Devices http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6156510808/sizes/l/ Personal Learning Environment Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010) Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html Mobile Learning http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5958585066 Architecture of participation Sharing Collaborating Tools Learning 2.0 Tagging User generated content Voting Networking BYOD or CYOD? One of the biggest issues is tracking and controlling access to corporate and private networks. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg 3 kinds of learner support Social support Technical support Academic support Reference: (Carnwell, 2000) These are often provided by peers Traditionally the domain of the teacher/tutor “Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.” http://arts.anu.edu.au - Paulo Freire We learn by teaching http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/ Bearpit Pedagogy http://open.salon.com Self organised learning For successful self organised learning the essential components are: • • • • • • Communication Reflection Collaboration Community Creative Tools Amplification Heutagogy Self-determined learning Hase & Kenyon Flâneur Making Connections In Connectivism, learning involves creating connections and developing a network. It is a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent properties, and self organised learning. (It’s not what you know, but who you know) http://www.pestproducts.com Source: Wikipedia Deleuze & Guattari Rhizomes Anarchy of the Web “In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, [and is] a personal knowledgecreation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.” Source: Cormier, D. (2008) http://davecormier.com/edblog/ © Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2008 Rhizomatic learning - Kevin Kelly http://www.global-images.net http://www.global-images.net “How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.” Photo by Joyce Seitzinger