Is a platform with the tools an technologies, with effective, engaging strategies – blogging, wikis, personally and culturally stimulated that drive the learner to intrinsically access, search, create and share the content on the Internet.

is a new generation of Internet-based services and tools based on the interactive platform, in which content is created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along.

results in personal change in behavior, attitudes, values, and thinking.

7 Cs – Critical thinking, Critativity Collab

* the skill of the facilitator and the user, which improves with the experience and with improvement in the * Web 2.0 tools. * From my extensive experience of using The qualitative dimension of face-to-face collaboration is also retained in the web 2.0 environment. Web 2.0 learning/teaching environment I can attest that extremely excellent results in collaborative decision-making and work productivity are attained using Web 2.0 tools in a “distance” setting. * Web 2.0 additionally offers advantages for collaboration within a proximate group setting and avoids the inefficiencies of face-to-face group dynamics.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Exploding Education’s Limits: Unlocking Learning with Web 2.0. Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D Mount Saint Mary College NY, USA

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What is this Session About? Learning and Teaching in the 21 Century Concepts: defined Web 2.0: Unlocking Learning WiZiQ Public Session, 2008

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Context: Concepts defined Web 2.0 Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 - Jot down your thoughts on the whiteboard…

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Context: Concepts defined What is Web 2.0? What is Literacy? People are having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a social network (Stephen Downes). In Web 2. 0, information flows in multiple directions, is user-generated, and widely shared with the community of learners.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What does it do to Learning Teaching ? What is Learning in the new educational context? The process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new content, concepts through testing, playing, sharing the info with different audiences; it brings the learner on a different level of operating – global, participatory, motivated, meaningful and rewarding. What is Teaching in the Information Age? The process of constant learning of how to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world of flowing and frowning information.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Challenges of 21st Century Teaching ‘Information Age’ technologies have made available copious amounts of information to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Strict age/grade level approaches to education are being questioned as the appropriate way to prepare students for the coming decades.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Classroom Teaching Environments Education continues to mirror the industrial age ‘assembly line’ approach. We’re trying to produce the most product (to standards) in the shortest time with the fewest defects. Our instruction typically occurs in a room with teacher and students ‘same place - same time.’ Content (learning experience) is usually organized by topics and taught in time slots specified for that topic.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Looking at literacy New Literacies Web logs (blogs) video editors World Wide Web browsers Web & HTML editors e-mail Text messaging Instant Messaging spreadsheets presentation software bulletin boards avatars virtual worlds Traditional Literacies Paper Pencil Book

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What are New Literacies? Using information and communication technologies to: identify important questions locate information critically evaluate the usefulness of that information synthesize information to answer those questions communicate the answers to others WHY?

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13 Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Source: Padcar Slideshare Teaching 1.0 T S Delivery – Word, Text, Web T = Authority S = Reader S = passive Teaching 2.0 T= S=L World Community Producer Collaborator Contributor Writer, reader Participatory Engaged

2/23/2009 14 Dr. Ludmilla Smirnova Producing Designing Re-mixing Mashing Sharing Uploading Commenting Annotating Blogging Tagging =Categorizing Organizing Bookmarking Validating Searching/ Googling Access A. Church, 2008 J. Bruner, 1960 B. Bloom, 1956 Collaborating, Learning Together

MODELS Behavioral Information- Processing Social Interactive Personal Direct/Deductive Indirect/Inductive Indirect/Interactive Indirect/ Independent Study METHODS, ICT Strategies How? Lectures, Presentations, Tutorials, Drill & Practice Inquiry, WebQuests, WIPs, WebBits Jigsaw, Role Play, Collaborative Internet Projects, PBL 2/23/2009 15 Dr. Ludmilla Smirnova Derived from : Joyce & Weil, 1986 Last retrieved Aug. 11 from http://www.sasklearning.gov.sk.ca/docs/policy/approach/instrapp03.html

Where is (R)evolution?

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 Active Learning Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0: Three Facets of Learning 2.0 Design – users want a rich user-experience Open source – you never start from scratch (Google, RSS) Communications – Social Media put users in control of the conversations. This results in: Every user is a writer, publisher (Blogger, wiki) A Designer, producer (Podcast, iTunes) An Expert (wikipedia) A Broadcaster (YouTube, google video) An Editor/Critic of the network (wiki) Syndicated (RSS, Feed) Learning 2.0 is unlocked – it is about constructing meaning with Web 2.0 tools: learners are creating, remixing, collaborating, sharing it with the global community of learners.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0: Exploding Limits Source: http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/web2-seminar

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII What Makes Web 2.0 a good Platform for the for Engaged Learning? User-friendly interface Constructivist nature and premise Design structure and functionality Availability of Tools: Forum Blogs Wiki Choices/Polls Mashups: Compatibility with lots of other programs and tools

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Web 2.0 Tools for Active Learning Mind-Mapping: Mind-Mapping Sites Collaboration: Google Docs Zoho Wiki Communication: WizIQ Elluminate Social Media: del.icio.us Diigo

Web 2.0 Common Principles Profile - requires to sign up and fill out   Organizers – specific interface of the site Searching Capability - built in search engines Groups - joining groups of interest Dialogue and Collaboration – ways to communicate/collaborate (Comments, DF, etc.)  Multiple Media – pictures, audio, video User- Friendly Functioning - WYSIWYG Sharing Option (public or private)  Notification - way to inform that the information is changed Beta Development – Constant permanent improvement to medium FREE!!!

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Networks, Projects I am in: Whiteboardchallenge Jess McCulloch Nellie Deutsch

WiZiQ

Live Communication with Elluminate Elluminate

Web 2.0 Tools and services

28 Challenges in Teaching /Learning Reliability Validity Security Copyright Lack of experimentation Research Evaluation Safety Access

In Conclusion The success of Web 2.0 environment for Unlocking Student Learning depends on a number factors: Foremost, New technologies open the country borders, classroom walls, equip students with the tools that will allow them live in the new Informational era.

CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Resources: You Tube about Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog Web 2.0: Social Revolution What is Moodle? Virtual Learning Environment Blendededu.com - Social Media Resources for Learning in the Digital Aged Teaching for Tomorrow