Learn, teach and the Web »

This lecture is presented in the form of a website, 15 webpages long. Click the date to expand each page. Feel free to go through them in any order you like. Feel free to quote, adapt and remix anything you think can help you. Please have in mind, that the presentation of pages is in the opposite linear order from how it was thought. Not that it matters. What matters are the following three questions (and only bullets):

What tools are you using now?
How can you improve?
How can you improve your learning/work/school?

You may find some of my sources at http://delicious.com/tolvari/ole09. You may also want to follow me on Twitter.

The author is a theologian, teacher and lifelong learner. You may contact him at carlosf (at) hi.is or carlos.a.ferrer (at) gmail.com. Amongst workplaces are elementary schools in Iceland and Uni. Iceland, ed. dept.

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Web 2.0 and Education 2.0

What do you want to do?

With whom can you do it?

What tools will help you to reach your goals?

What do you want to learn?

With whom can you learn it?

What tools will help you to reach your goals?

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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“ Self-Regulated Learner

—

Snowman & Biehler 2006, Psychology Applied to Teaching, 11th ed., 285ff

Make space for freedom, form and ways to create students who are ~~moved~~ driven by their ~~instinct~~ thirst to learn.

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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“ I used to play video games.

— Now I make them

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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“This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.”

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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“A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.”

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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“A showcase of two digital projects in [Clay Burrell’s] high school history (creating a wiki-based history textbook and blog) and language arts (a global wiki creative writing workshop, “The 1001 Flat World Tales”) classes.”

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Education

Education 2.0 - the art of helping students learn from each other. A few thoughts.

Kids play -> teach to program videogames or tell stories (also/especially digitally)

Kids text -> teach to make a podcast or allow them to make a school paper

Kids ~~download~~ consume movies and music -> help them make movies and music to upload

Kids try to take control -> you guide and they create

Popquizz: Name educational theories and theorists who would subscibe to above.

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Gora Gray @ flickr

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Image by dkuropatwa @ flickr

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Photo by ole @ flickr

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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Web 2.0 in a nutshell

One idea begets many comments. Comments beget a network, networks beget collaborative webs.

Many ideas beget many new comments, they in turn beget new decisions and new content. This you can supply with tags to help search and find. You may collaborate in real time - or not.

Content is limited only by laws of physics. If you can digitize you can create, share, remix and redistribute. Read stuff on copyright.

Documents, music, photos, drawings, movies, programs, notation, web 2.0 … try internet search with these words and add “online”, “service” and “open source”.

posted : Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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