The Future of Learning:
Blended learning?
Enrique Arias Castaño
The Future...?
It is very difficult to predict the future. It’s
difficult to even predict what will
happen in the next year.
The Future...?
When he saw a demonstration of the
telephone in 1880, a U.S Mayor declared: “One day every town in America will
have a telephone!”
Advances in technology,
information, and communication, have
changed the way learning and instruction
are carried out.
“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly
describe.”
David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/
Here’s a problem for teachers:
Formal and Informal learning
Formal Learning
Informal Learning
20% 80%
Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.
Shouldn’t we now start to blend formal and informal
learning?
Students today are doing things differently from those 20 years ago
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Digital Digital Natives?Natives?
The Net
Generation?We shouldn’t be categorising learners like this!
Digital Native
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Expectations
Needs
.....are not the same as...
Learners enjoy learning when it’s engaging and
fun!
Engaging and fun!
Serious games
Interactive narrativesRole play simulations
Massively Online Role Playing Games
Across the Years
YGen XBaby
Boomers Gen Z ?Veterans
1965 19801945 2000
Generation YMillennialsEcho Boomers
Net GenBaby BustersGeneration Next
Boomlets Nintendo Generation
Across the Years
YGen XBaby
Boomers Gen Z ?Veterans
1965 19801945 2000
shifts happened
Paper-based culture
Handwriting Typing
Post-ItSpiral
Notebooks
Highlighting Filing
Screen-based culture
E-mail Webcams
Blogging Gaming
Googling Streaming
Learners will need new ‘literacies’
• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting
cyberculture
Learners will need new ‘literacies’
• Social networking• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self broadcasting
cybercultureThe new web environments are
game changers. learners now
need new (digital) literacies
Personalised Learning?
Personalised Learning?
Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences
are acknowledged
Personal Learning Environments
PersonalLearning
Environment
Personal Learning Network
PersonalWeb Tools
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
PLEs are not only personal web tools and
personal learning networks. PLEs takes
realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &
more formal contexts.
Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to
find it.
PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen
by learners to support their lifelong learning.
Sources of Information
Learning Environments
CLOSEDSTRUCTURED
OPENACCESSIBLE
SCHOOL-BASED
BROADCAST TELEVISION /
RADIO
MULTIMEDIA
ONLINE LEARNING
MOBILE LEARNING
INFORMAL LEARNING
Learning Tools
Modes of Communication
Social Media use
>500 Million
>100 Million >50 Million
>125 Million
>14 million articles
>4 Billion images
Source: http://econsultancy.com
2 Billion views/day24 hours/minute
YCulture of technologyCulture of technology
Advent of the internetAdvent of
the internet
Changes in the forms of information
Changes in the forms of information
Changes in modes communication
Changes in modes communication
digital natives“born with I.T.”
They don’t know any other way
Y
Educators are faced with even more
CHALLENGES than the last century
CENTURY21st
Tech-SavvyMulti-Taskers
PersonalHands-On
VisualCollaborativeGoal-Oriented
Social
Tech-SavvyMulti-Taskers
PersonalHands-On
VisualCollaborativeGoal-Oriented
Social
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Where’s the Conflict?
21st Century Learner
Traditional Teacher
vs.
Where’s the Conflict?
vs.Traditional
LearnerModernLearner
Beliefs FILE SHARING
Beliefs INFORMAL LEARNING
Trust NEW SOURCES
Old Learner vs. New Learner
Techno-Phobic
Sequential
Formal
Passive
Tech-Savvy
Multi-Tasker
Personal
Hands-On
Old Learner vs. New Learner
Text Based
Competitive
Private
Visual
Collaborative
Social
Task-Oriented
Goal-Oriented
Shift in Learning Theories for the Online Environment
Teachers have to keep up
Technology Literacy Media Literacy
Online CommunicationInternet Tools
Students with 21st century skills require teachers with 21st century skills too!
21st Century Skilled Teacher
•Computer-Savvy•Creative•Critical•Constructive•Connected •Communicative
BRAIN BREAK
“Cuando alcancemos el óptimo de información, habremos llegado al máximo de desinformación POR SATURACIÓN”
Ignacio Ramonet, periodista español, figura principal del movimiento antiglobalización.
PODCAST
• podcast is from iPod and broadcast
• Un podcast se asemeja a una suscripción a un blog hablado en la que recibimos los programas a través de Internet.
• File to download – mp3• Difusion on RSS
(Really Simple Syndication)
VOXOPOP.COM
Not traditional forum
Audiorecord participations
Conversational groups:open &
restrictive
PODOMATIC.COM web/blog developer:- Attach audio files
EJMS:http://los39sonidos.podomatic.com/
http://audiolibros.podomatic.com/
Podcast channels
PODERATO.COMpodcast developer
EJMS:http://www.poderato.com/futboltotalcr/futbol-total/ftbol-total-7-de-mayo-2012
1 Gb to upload
VOCAROO.COM
• Simple interface• Record or upload audio files• 50mb
• Simple• easy
• useful
VIDEOCAST
• El Videocast o Videopodcast es un archivo multimedia que contiene una información combinada de audio y video
• Los videos se pueden publicar en un servidor externo (YouTube, por ejemplo)
• EJM:• http://sites.google.com/site/lenguabovalar/home/
publicaciones/lazarillo
Mind mapsconceptual maps
Graphic representations of knowledge
MINDMEISTER.COM
• FaceBook user and try it without Submit
• Print and variety of formats• Share with others
MINDOMO.COM
COMAPPING.COM
BUBBL.USBrainstorming
CMAPTOOLSFREEMIND
FREEInstallation
WEBSITES
Wix online editor - Flash
Jimdo web editor, free, fast, and easy to use
PREZI.COM
• presentations off-line (download as Flash)• FaceBook
Prezi zooming, designing,
drawing and presenting
And more tools…• Calameo.com
• http://www.calameo.com/read/001356417f1c51d02eed2
• Powerpoint to video• Knovio.com
• Cuadernia• http://edu.jccm.es/cp/antoniomachado/cuadernia/
casa/index.html• http://cuadernia.educa.jccm.es/
• Video online• Ustream.tv
• Videos from images• Vuvox.com
• SKYPE (install)