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Digital Education Futures
Utopian Futures
Forces that will impact future of learning
Pattern recognition
addresses ever-increasing proliferation of info in society; new tools for visualizing data require new skills for identifying patterns in data
New civic discourse
future redefined by participatory media, dispersed populations that share common roots/identities
Platforms for resilience
Change focus from resisting change, disruption, & status quo to embracing responsive flexibility
Maker economy
personal fabrication tech & open-source principles that will democratize production & design
Amplified organization
remaking of orgs by amplified individuals; organizational "superheroes" will remake org models
Altered bodies
intersection of environment & performance; stresses from environmental factors will impact learners' mind & body
7 Key shifts in learning environments
Working at one scale to working up & down scale
Degrees to reputation metrics
Content conveyors to content creators
Grades to continuous feedback mechanisms
Assigning to enticing w/ content
Lecture halls to collaborative spaces
Episodic to continuous learning
Model for Utopian future; key factors for change
Core elements
Personalization
Information
Collaboration
Identify major factors of change (forces)
Distinguish key shifts/changes from forces
Address shifts by supporting learning tech & organizations
End result is application & use by learners
Learning technologies
6 emerging themes
Human-software symbiosis
New foundations
Embedded & embodied learning
Socialstructured work
Content commons
Global learning arbitrage
Emerging technologies
Internet technologies
Learning technologies
Digital strategies
Social media technologies
Consumer technologies
Visualization technologies
Enabling technologies
Ten principles for applying learning tech in organizations
Networked learning
Open-sourced education
De-centered pedagogy
Learning as connectivity & interactivity
Presumed authority to collective credibility
Lifelong learning
Horizontal structures
Learning institutions as mobilizing networks
Self-learning
Flexible scalability & simulation
Dystopian Futures
Six perpetuated themes about learning technologies
1. Displacement of "the teacher"
Simple but significant question: "Are teachers becoming the nobodies of pedagogical work?"
Fear for the tech-assisted disappearance of the teacher
The teacher is reduced to peripheral element of learning process
"Guide on the side, rather than a sage on the stage"
2. Deprofessionalism of "the teacher"
Common for teachers to feel portrayed as threatened by digital tech in terms of "labor" of teaching
Work that was once domain of highly skilled specialists can be performed by much lower-skilled workers
David Noble - saw teachers becoming content producers; subject to pressures; undergoing rapid technological transformation
Digital tech seen as "virtual assembly line" for educators
Restructuring via tech reduces autonomy & implies "long-term redundancy"
3. Dis-engagement of the learner
Concerns over distraction of digital tech
Visions of digital acceleration of "culture of disrespect" between young people & formal institutions
Digital native based around disempowerment of older generations
Claims infer adults lack technological adeptness & expectations that digital natives take for granted
Trad. institutions poorly placed to deal w/ social, cultural, & economic changes related to digital techs
4. "Dumbing down" of younger generations
Fear of "dumbing-down" related to learners' tech-mediated relationships w/ info & knowledge
"Txt-spk" causing declining levels of basic literacy
Evidence exists that associates internet use w/ detrimental effect on cog. dev. & mental performance
Digital tech forcing all learners into same model & stifling idiosyncrasies
Apathy & disengagement exacerbated by overuse of digital tech
5. Devaluation of knowledge
Perceptions of excess of digitally-available info & corresponding devaluation of knowledge
Digital tech has led to info overload
"Information obesity"
Growing quantity of poor-quality info accessible
Pressures to consume info
Digitally networked distribution & dispersal reducing need to "know" anything
Living in the era of "outsourced brain"
6. Increased surveillance & accountability
Concerns related to growing role of learning tech in enforcing accountability, surveillance, and self-regulation
Dataveillance embedded into most tech-based forms of teaching & learning
Rise of "dataveillance;" surveillance of abstract data
Invisible data collection has led to "silent control"
"Coded suspicion" between academic staff, admin, & students
Majority of people in education believe that digital tech is capable of improving learning
Making good use of Dystopian Visions of Learning Tech
Perpetuated themes function to position learning tech in a negative light
Only dystopian argument if mindset of leaning tech is transformatory "positive project"
Dystopian visions should be seen as useful elements of continuing dev. of learning tech.
Paying attention might be useful
Can highlight social, economic, political, & cultural contexts
These stories highlight areas not fully understood
Pessimistic position could help learning tech researchers move beyond legalistic approach to evidence
Learning technologists should be engaging actively w/ negative aspects of tech & how to withstand them