Open Social Mobile Learning

"The Internet is not about empowerment of new leaders, it is about the empowerment of everyone”

Technology, not Ideology,

changes the world

Aldous Huxley

m bile web

-36% of internet traffic in the USA is spent on online news.

-14% of this is from mobile phones.

-for 70% of 16 - 25 youth, mobiles are the most important media. The kind of media is no longer important (Marc Bressel, Microsoft)

Wikipedia was created in 1% of time spent yearly by Americans watching TV

cognitive surplus

social surplus

creative surplus

all work is derivative,

all books are hipertextual,

all ideas are free...

• mirror neurons - empathic civilization
• networks - emergence theories
• honest signals - sociometry
• collective intelligence
• ways to be together

learning

the web as a knowledge, research platform

Learning in complex environments requires flexibility and an exploratory aproach

-just in time, real time learning.

-questions,

-location based, "ubiquitous learning"

-expanded, augmented reality

-informal learning

-auto (DIY) - learning

Open Social Mobile Learning

6 October 2010

Dolors Reig. social media consultant, social web innovation teacher.

HTTP://WWW.DREIG.EU/CAPARAZON

“Mobile phones are misnamed.They should be called ‘gateways to all human knowledge.”

Ray Kurzweil

as a technology that could change the world

Levinson

OPEN MOBILE LEARNING

open

DANGEROUS apps

operators

dependency

quality...

abundance of knowledge,

abundance of opportunities to collaborate, technology, multimedia abundance

quantity...

What if education

What if the web

What if our brains (our cognitive surplus) would be opened?

bits are free

ubiquity - Cloud computing

Augmented reality

OPEN licenses...

Thanks!

blogs, wikis, social networks, greek "agora", GLOBAL conversation

learning and PARTICIPATION

4 billion subscribers, more than two-thirds of whom live in developing countries.

successful networks

based on human motivation

SOCIAL

social is more important than ever

smartphones learning

web learning

"In five years the best education will come from the web"

Describing traditional studies as "place-based" and inefficient, he forecasts that university education will become five times less important within five years, with online lecture sources picking up the reins of enlightening youth.

digital divide?

participation divide

learning is also changing...

http://www.dreig.eu/caparazon

the kind of media is no longer important

We´re moving from a world full of questions with a few answers to a world full of answers where we have to make us the correct questions.

Mobile-WEB

Mobiles are"Curiosity Amplifiers"(John Seeley Brown)

FACTS

"140 caracters literacies"

microlearning, small screen display, learning bites

teacher, facilitator, curator

PLE

Serendipity (under development at MIT), set our social networking profile to alert us whenever we’re near an expert in the topic of our choice.

Perhaps the future role of learning is to find, organize, and enable the experts?