Students of to…day

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THE CAST

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INTRODUCING: THE MILLENNIALS

Multitaskers

Service 24/7 No delays

Stay connected

Computers are NOT technology

Great expectations!

Hard Working

Productive

Creative

Easily boredNetworkers

Photo: Laptop in a tree by kcolwell (Flickr)

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THE TOOLS

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SOCIAL MEDIA (AKA WEB 2.0)

web-services relying on active participation from the users

More users more valuable service

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THE TABLOID VERSION

Web 1.0 was about connecting computers, web 2.0 is about connecting people

Tim Berners-Lee (foto: Pixel y Dixel på Flickr)

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”AN ATTITUDE, NOT A TECHNOLOGY”

I share therefore I am

Create Tag Share Comment Re-create

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FROM INFORMATION…

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… TO CONVERSATION

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”AN ATTITUDE, NOT A TECHNOLOGY”

Values and Attitudes User Generated content, collective intelligence, low threshold, shareing, re-use

Applications Blogs, Wikis, RSS-readers, social networks, tagging, intelligent search

And some technology Standards and formats making sharing of information between applications possible

(Web 2.0 in Government: Why and How?)

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"WE SHAPE OUR TOOLS. AND THEN OUR TOOLS SHAPE US” (MCLUHAN)

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THE PEDAGOGY

[Suspenseful music playing]

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PEOPLE LEARN BETTER WHEN COLLABORATING

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SOME RANDOM QUESTIONS FROM STUDENTS Why doesn’t my institution’s LMS look more like facebook

and have an intuitive user interface?

Why can’t I get messages from my university at the email address I actually check?

Why can’t I use my already existing online identity for University services?

Google docs supports collaborative writing better than the university wiki, why can’t we do our group assignment there?

Why is it so difficult to setup a university wiki for my students (lecturer)

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END CREDITS Kristine Sevik

kristine@uninett.no

Slideshare.net/ksevik (this presentation)

Twitter: ksevik

“The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it”(the NRK beta doctrine)