Lessons from the web: Building contemporary learning communities
Posted by: Dean Shareski in ConferencesAs a preface, anyone who begins by praising the work of Lawrence Lessig deserves some attention.
Notes from Keynote, David Porter Campus BC at TLT 2006.
We to focus more on transforming education rather than simply improving it.
Learners take on consumer like values as they consider their education: flexibility, accessibility and choice.
Teachers:Show me things that make my job easier, show me things that make learning better
Administrators: Show me things that scale, save money
Learners: Want immediacy, interactivity, personalization, mobility
Lessons from the web generation
- Peer to peer
- self publishing
- collaborative tools
The question is how to we utilize learners consumer like mindset and not overplay it in order to maximize academic goals?
- From Push to Pull…help students to contribute back content
- From Targeting to Connecting
- From Reacting to Understanding…polling and listening to what people need and want
Presentation available at www.sfu.ca/~davidp/community.pdf
I was impressed overall with David’s presentation. He gets it and seems to be advocating for continued transformation in education.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 12:20 am
Dean, thanks for the plug. I really enjoyed the pdocast session that you and the other Posse members put together. My thoughts on it are found in my blog … http://knowledgewranglers.typepad.com/cognitivecocktail/
Saludos.
D.
August 29th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
FYI - Video of David’s presentation is available on our website:
http://www.campussaskatchewan.ca/members/archives/tlt2006/keynote3.asp
Cheers,
Rob