RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
i: Some challenges…
What is pervasive learning?
What is best practice?
Paralysing fear
The social implications of pervasive learning
Connectivity
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Quest for new literacies4
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Pervasive learning is a social process that connects learners to communities of devices, people, and situations so that learners can construct relevant and meaningful learning experiences, that they author themselves, in locations and at times that they find meaningful and relevant.
Challenge one: What is pervasive learning?
•Mama knows best…•The easy (but not entirely accurate) answer: a learning situation that incorporates pervasive technologies•Pervasive technology good learning •Convergence•Over-defining•Working definition:
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge two: What is best practice?
•Few examples of anywhere, all the time. Pervasiveness doesn’t really exist…•Uncharted territory, with a caveat…
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge three: Dealing with the past
•How to avoid reinventing the wheel, again and again•Pervasive learning is interdisciplinary
-Erkki Huhtamo: late 19th c ‘photographic pest’ parallels with modern day camera phone user Hidden histories of mobile media, http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/11/articles/pdf/11_01.pdf
-Tom Standage Victorian Internet: Electric telegraph hype, scepticism, hackers, on-line romances and weddings, chat-rooms, flame wars, information overload, predictions of imminent world peace
-Kevin Lynch and imageability [location]-45.9 percent drop in sales [convergence]
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge four: Quest for new literacies
•Locational literacy (satellite vs. street)•Wayfinding skills: Audio, video, smell, touch
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge five: Connectivity
•Bluetooth, GPRS, SMS, wifi, landlines•Always on education=always connected?•Seamless experience
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge six: Social implications
•Privacy & Security•Longevity: if learning involves making mistakes…•Psychology of being always connected/ always within reach
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Challenge seven: Paralysing fear
•‘Paralyscope’: massive scale can be paralysing•Reconsidering role of trainer: can’t be everywhere, all of the time•Learners and time management
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•Possible model
•MMORPGs, pervasive/ alternate reality games
•Constructivist, cooperative, situated, CSCL, distributed, multimodal learning, social development theory
•Background: 2001, MUDs, MOOs, Majestic, Nokia Game, proving a point.
ii: What enhances/ impedes the problems
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
What is Pervasive Learning?
•Pervasive—or ubiquitous or ambient—learning is “always on” education.
•Always on education: available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere, at anytime.
•Need to emphasise: Vast difference between a pervasive or ubiquitous learning experience
and pervasive or ubiquitous technology.
•Emphasis is on social process not pervasive or ubiquitous technology
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Community
Relationality
Locationality
Autonomy
Pervasive learning is a social process that connects learners to communities of devices, people, and situations so that they can construct relevant and meaningful learning experiences, that they authored themselves, in locations and at times that they find meaningful and relevant
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
COMPONENT PERVASIVE LEARNING PRINCIPLE
COMMUNITY Principle One. Relationship Building: Architect Situations but Forsake the Blueprints
Principle Two. Conversation Instances: Don’t Shut the Door on Collaboration
Principle Three. Learner Roles: Resist the Urge to Typecast
AUTONOMY Principle Four. It’s All About Control: Give Learners the Power
Principle Five. Content Ownership: Let Them Author and They Will Stay
Principle Six. Multiple Solutions: Give Learners Freedom to Explore Possibility
Principle Seven. Prior Experience, Future Growth: Make Knowledge a Valued Commodity
LOCATIONALITY Principle Eight. Choice: Let the Learner Choose When and Where
Principle Nine. Dynamic Content, Dynamic Environments: Design for Always On Not Always the Same
Principle Ten. No Learner is an Island: Don't Deny Learners Their Context
RELATIONALITY Principle Eleven. Personal Environments: Help Learners Personalize Public Spaces
Principle Twelve. Personal Goals: Let Them Achieve Their Mission, Should They Decide to Invent It…
Principle Thirteen. Personal Meaning: Account for Learner Perspective
13 Principles of Pervasive Learning
Model can be used for design or
evaluation
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Community
Going to happen anyway
Rethinking of role of trainers/ instructors
Principle One. Relationship Building: Architect Situations but Forsake the Blueprints
•Principle Two. Conversation Instances: Don’t
Shut the Door on Collaboration
•Principle Three. Learner Roles: Resist the Urge to Typecast
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Autonomy
•Principle Four. It’s All About Control: Give Learners the Power
•Principle Five. Content Ownership: Let Them Author and They Will Stay
•Principle Six. Multiple Solutions: Give Learners
Freedom to Explore Possibility
•Principle Seven. Prior Experience, Future
Growth: Make Knowledge a Valued Commodity
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Locationality
• Need to Principle Eight. Choice: Let the Learner Choose When and Where
• Principle Nine. Dynamic Content, Dynamic Environments: Design for Always On Not Always the Same
• Principle Ten. No Learner is an Island: Don't Deny Learners Their Context.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
Relationality
•Need to Principle Eleven. Personal Environments: Help Learners Personalize Public Spaces
•Principle Twelve. Personal Goals: Let Them Achieve Their Mission, Should They Decide to Invent It…
•Principle Thirteen. Personal Meaning: Account for Learner Perspective
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•Research & Development
•Collaborations with other disciplines
•Training & Education: exchanging ideas and best practice
•International perspective, collaborations
iii: Suggestions for solutions!
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•Ongoing work in four areas of model e.g. community and user placed RFID stickers
•Low tech solutions (can it work)
•High-tech (experimental)
•Psychology, social implications
Research & Development
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•Traditional and non-traditional business collaborations to deliver material e.g. urban design and banking or SFA
•Commercial and academic: apply theoretical knowledge, conduct evaluations, usability research
•But also education: a lot of academic work being done on collaboration techniques, etc. that isn’t purely theoretical
Collaborations with other disciplines
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•How to seminars, workshops, tutorials
•Project lists: post-mortems and lessons learners
•Producing resources: tech sheets
•Important background reading
Education and Training
Research & Development Workshops on Pervasive Learning
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS ON PERVASIVE LEARNING
Siobhan Thomas [email protected] www.pervasivelearning.org
•Sharing resources e.g. simply translating
•Technical: scandinavia vs. the world
•Knowledge exchange: pervasive projects spaink, large scale m-learning canada, mobile platforms for engineering education in jordan
International perspective