Eclectic Technology

The world is changing at an ever growing pace and in todays world students need to learn "how to learn." How do we as teachers help our students learn "how to learn"? By modeling it in our daily work with our students we can instill the skills and help them understand that we too are in the process of learning. 

Jackie Gerstein provides a post that explores how our roles are changing and how the roles of our learners are chaning because of Education 2.0-3.0 (with a link to a post that describes this).  

What does "teaching the process of learning" mean? A few of her points are below:

• Modeling of learning processes needs to be intentional, strategic, and overt.
• The educator should be familiar with and able to demonstrate metacognitive processe.

In this post Jackie Gerstein provides a great list of books that you could use to teach children about the skills and attributes that they need to learn. She states " Children’s books, as they are written and presented as stories, have great potential to explain these often abstract concepts.  There is also evidence that the brain processes stories differently and more powerfully than facts and lectures."

The stories are divided into sections:

* Grit

* Resilience

* Hope & Optimism

* Vision

* Self-Regulation

* Empathy & Global Awareness

There is also a list of books suggested by Tony Wagner in the areas of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Collaboration and Curiosity and Imagination.

Although geared to children some are appropriate for older students.

Jackie Gerstein continues to explore the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 , taking it "one step further" by looking at Pedagogy (related to children's learning), Andragogy (related to adults learning) and Heutagogy (related to self-directed learning). The graphic above shows how she defines these three areas in more detail. 

She notes that this shift is moving us from a teacher directed classroom which education driven by essentialism or instructivism (Education 1.0) to a constructivist approach, "where the principles of active, experiential, authentic, relevant, socially-networked learning experiences are built into the class or course structure" (Education 2.0) to a more heutalogical approach (Education 3.0).

The discussion then looks at how to choose a teaching orientation (and it need not always be the same) and then applies these concepts to mobile learning. 

Many resources are included in this post such as a table describing Education 1.0, Education 2.0 and Education 3.0; a Google Drive Presentation on PBL in a High School Science Class that uses mobile technologies; a SlideShare that looks at Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy of Mobile Learning (presenting the concepts discussed in the post); and many links to additional resources.

This infographic illustrates how SAMR may be used as a framework as we move from Education 1.0 to Education 2.0 to Education 3.0. The actual post also includes a wide variety of links to additional resources.

Have you considered using the SAMR model as you develop new curriculum or revise curriculum. As you move up SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) Gerstein would say that Substitution and Augmentation are Education 1.0, Modification is Education 2.0 and Redefinition is Education 3.0.

For more information on these concepts click through to the post.

Thanks go to Jackie Gerstein for sharing this presentation so we may learn more about the shift from Education 1.0 to Education 2.0 to Education 3.0. The slides are available on her blog as well as a link to Slideshare. Additional links to information are available as you read through the text in the post. 

Gerstein provides an interesting look at where education is and where education is going. She provides a look at research that shows that schools are "living within and functioning through an Education 1.0 model." She quotes an article that states "Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. The teachers or administrators decide what is most important for the students to learn with little regard to the student interests. The teachers also focus on achievement test scores as a means of evaluating progress."

So what defines Education 2.0? "Education 2.0 includes more interaction between the teacher and student; student to student; and student to content/expert."

Education 3.0 moves us into a new direction, one that we are beginning to see. Content is free (think open educational resources) and readily available, It is more self-directed with a focus on creativity, problem solving and innovation.

As always there is a wealth of resources available in the post.