EAMIL: Microlearningelearning Quo Vadis

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EAMILMicrolearning/e-learningQuo Vadis?

• Norm Friesen

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• to speak about pedagogy is to speak about
  everything at once.
• Jean Paul (c1800)

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Themes

• Definitional
• Styles, habits, attention, practice, tools
• Overload, organizing, tagging
• Technology mis-appropriation

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Microlearning

• Microcontents as fine granularity learning
  objects that are created in concrete environments
  that have some inherent subjectivity, and that
  are in many cases informal, not following a
  strong educational intention.

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Microlearning (Wikipedia)

• deals with relatively small learning units and
  short-term learning activities. Generally, the
  term 'microlearning' refers to micro-perspectives
  in the context of learning, education and
  training. More frequently, the term is used in
  the domain of E-learning and related fields in
  the sense of a new paradigmatic perspective on
  learning processes in mediated environments on
  micro levels.

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Microlearning

• Aranuld Leene Semantic Web E-learning2.0
  Microlearning
• Aranuld Leene Web 2.0 Using the Internet
  without using the Web.
• Martin Lindner Always already microlearning.
• Arnauld Leene What is it it is how I use it.
  (Personal, authentic use.)

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Tools Used Show me your Practice

• del.icio.us, Flickr, aggregators, NetNewsWire
• Attention XML
• Citeulike
• Tagworld
• WebnoteHappy
• Tagwatcher.com
• Furl, InfoClouds

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Cognitive Styles and Attitudes

• George Siemens
• Media Generations
• Learning as occurring through the
  strengthening/weakening of connections
• Re-writing these pathways and connection, coping
  with uncertainty
• Shared symbolic forms, language

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Cognitive Styles and Attitudes

• Evolution and acquisition of cognitive habits and
  capabilities
• we suggest that the objects of thought are not
  always inside the brain.
• Information habits, tools used, when and why
• Coulter, 2005 Mind is either a vernacular
  notion with commonplace uses, or a philosophical
  reification. it actually can impede our
  understanding of how we speak and hear, how we
  say and to things, in our everyday lives.

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Habitus?

• Habitus can sometimes be understood as those
  aspects of culture that are anchored in the body
  or daily practices of individuals, groups,
  societies, and nations. It includes the totality
  of learned habits, bodily skills, styles, tastes,

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Habitus?

• and other non-discursive knowledges that might be
  said to "go without saying" for a specific group.
  The scope of the term has been extended to
  include a person's beliefs and dispositions.

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Overload

• Information overload filtering
• Following voices, or tiny chunks
• Hypertext navigation and new cognitive styles
• Attention, behaviour and interfaces
• How we manage info overload in everday life and
  practices

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• Filtering power
• Ecosystem of ideas healthy ones survive.
• New literacies

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Wisdom of Crowds

• Cognition Market judgment, which he argues can
  be much faster, more reliable, and less subject
  to political forces
• Coordination of behavior, such as not colliding
  in moving traffic flows, crowding in popular
  restaurants. experimental economics, He examines
  how common understanding within a culture allows
  remarkably accurate judgments about specific
  reactions of other members of the culture.

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Wisdom of Crowds

• Cooperation How groups of people can form
  networks of trust without a central system
  controlling their behavior or directly enforcing
  their compliance.

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The Crowd

• omnipresent but amorphous anonymity
• We have all encountered they-selves in our
  traditional classrooms. These are the students
  who refuse to question their own presuppositions
  about the world by appealing to dogma,
  conventional opinion, common sense, or a
  generalized consensus They think as people do,
  as in people think that studying philosophy is a
  waste of time, or people dont wear that style
  any more. David Koukal

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Dual Folksonomy Triad
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Technological Innovation

• Dodge-ball (Th. Vander Wal) Stay-at home
  parents initially created for bar-scene
• IRC (Arnauld Leene) Created for remote
  commuication used in wireless classrooms for
  comments additional layer of communication
• IRC with Skype

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Social Software

• Mis-using the technology
• One artifact, software system is realized as a
  different technology in different contexts
• Design through participation
• Contra Technological Determinism
• Medium is the Message

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Continuity Principle

• The new grows out of the old, repeats the old,
  embraces, reimagines and extends the old. To
  understand the Web, Im saying --to understand
  our emerging digital culture-- we need a
  continuity not a discontinuity principle
  (Thorburn, 2004 24, emphasis added).