Presentation of the paper "Embracing Web 2.0 & 3.0 tools to support lifelong learning - let learners connect". Paper presented at WCES2012 in Barcelona.

1. embracing Web 2.0 & 3.0 tools to support lifelong learning
let learners connect
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas
School of Education - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal
4th WCES - World Conference on Educational Sciences
University of Barcelona, Faculty of Library and Information Science
2-5 February 2012

2. let learners connect [key words]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

3. let learners connect [lifelong learning]
“all learning activity undertaken throughout life, with the aim of improving
knowledge, skills and competences, within a personal, civic, social and/or
employment-related perspective” (E.C., 2003)
to do
to know
lifelong to be
learning
to live
together
[adapted from: Europe-based council ]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

4. let learners connect [skills]
to actually learn and retain knowledge students must acquire relevant skills
e-skills
Research
Select Achieve Knowledge
Learn
soft
Reflect
skills Gather information
Collaborate
Create
Share
digital
literacy
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

5. let learners connect [skills]
What are these skills?
Why are they important?
How to achieve them?
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

6. let learners connect [what are these skills]
Capabilities needed to exploit opportunities
provided by ICT, ensuring more efficient and
e-Business effective performance in conducting and/or
establishing new business
Skills
ICT Capabilites required to
practitioner research, develop, design, plan, mana
ge, produce, consult, maintain and
skills
support ICT Systems
ICT user Skills
Capabilities required to an
effective application of ICT
Systems and devices to
support work, by using
Digital Literacy common software tools as
they cover “digital literacy”.
[adapted from: …]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

7. let learners connect [why are these skills important]
• Applying learning process: • Evaluating problem situation
transform information to • Identifying elements of
knowledge problem
• Recognising shortages in
requiered
knowledge, informations and
skills
action plan
check do
• Finding appropriate
• Evaluating gathered information/knowledge resources
information • Join/make a learning netwrok
• Make/visit appropriate connections
• Information gathering/creating
• Connections gathering
[adapted from: E.Rahimi ]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

8. let learners connect [why are these skills important]
Search
Knowing about and how
Access to collect information
Find In Digital Environments
Retrieve
Applying an existing
Manage scheme Organizing information for
future application
Summarize
Interpret and represent
Integrate information Compare From
Contrast
multiple sources
Quality
Evaluate Make judgements about Relevance
the information For a specific
Usefulness
purpose
Efficiency
Adapt
Create Generate information Aplly In ICT Environment
Design to express and
Invent support opinion
Communicate
To be persuasive and use In ICT Environment
Communicate the appropriate medium Adapt
[adapted from: …] for a peer audience
Present
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

9. let learners connect [why are these skills important]
Language
Behaviour Conversation Presentation
Proficiency
Dialetic Rhetoric
Local Self-esteem
Foreign Etiquette Dialog Organization
Culture Discussion Media
Listening
Body Language
[adapted from: …]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

10. let learners connect [why are these skills important]
[retrieved from: http://www.iftf.org/futureworkskills2020]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

11. let learners connect [how to achieve the skills]
How to be digitally savyy and a citizen of digital age / networked society
Web
2.0
Virtual
worlds
Social
networks
eLearning
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

12. let learners connect [lifelong learning <-> research]
collaborating
reading achieving
research
reflecting participating
watching
& listening
[adapted from: http://edreach.us/2012/01/01/need-a-new-years-resolution-try-
a-personalized-professional-development-plan/]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

13. let learners connect [bring web to you]
RSS
Podcast
Web 2.0 &
Webinar
Collaborate
Participate
Communicate
Virtual
Interact Youtube
Worlds
Search
Create
Share
Social Social
networking Bookmarking
Blog
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

14. let learners connect [projects]
“e_raízes_redes” project stimulates reflections towards a plan for global
action. These reflections aim to analyse the impact of ICT, in the scope of
major shifts in society (of social, political, economic, cultural and
contemporaneous order).
“Competences for collaboration and knowledge sharing in a digiatl society”
IP – Looking for partners!
“Digi_ZIP_ZAP” platform intends to be a bridge between users and web 2.0
tools available at Internet, giving solutions and presenting choices for a better
integration in a networked society.
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

15. let learners connect [final reflection]
Digital Society
New learning profiles
New professionals
New ways to create knowledge who master
digital technology tools
New ways for learning
Market
necessities e-Skills
Crutial to create knowledge
with digital technology
[adapted from: …]
Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas | 4th WCES

16. So... embrace Web 2.0 & 3.0 tools to support
lifelong learning and...
let learners connect! ;)
Ana Loureiro [accloureiro@gmail.com] |
http://accloureiro.weebly.com
keep in
touch… Inês Messias [ines.mess@gmail.com ]
Maria Barbas [mariapbarbas@gmail.com] |
http://mariapotesbarbas.com/