My Experience in the digital age compared to the 20th Century

2. Education in the digital Age
This presentation demonstrates my personal experience
of Education in the 20th century and in the Digital Age
(21stCentury) .
I had the opportunity to be a student in the early 1980s
and a more recent experience in 2012 (Brighton University
SKE Course). This allows me to reflect on how education
evolved with the advancement in technology and the shift
of focus from an Industrial age model towards a more
Global Model based upon a hi-tech society.

3. Significant
Attributes of Topics Of
the Digital Age Interest
Education
Tools I have Can We see
used. My the Future?
Experience of
the21st
Century
Education

4. Significant Attributes of the Digital Age Education
My Experience of the digital Age
Tools I
have used.
Student
Centred
Project-
Active Based &
Learning Research-
Driven

5. Student Centred
This was unlike my Education in the 80’s, in the 80’s
the teacher / Lecturer was the centre of attention and
provider of information but now in the Digital Age he is
becoming a facilitator / Coach.

6. 20th Century Education
In the 20th Century The
teacher was the one who
control the access to
information and accordingly we
expected to be provided with
the information we need to
pass a series of assessment
where we had to simply
reconstruct knowledge and
information, without
necessarily understanding it.
20th century class room
Our sources of information
were limited to books and
videos.
“ Passive Learning”

7. 21st Century Education
In the 21 Century The Lecturers were
mainly facilitators helping us to access and
process information. They recognize that
each individual had a different learning
style and needs. The focus is on what we
know and learn rather than memorizing
facts like how t was in the 80’s.
All the projects carried out was based
around researching on digital tools and
experimenting with them and compare
and contrast different tools and theories,
and discussing and evaluating different
sources.
We took responsibility for our own
learning. We construct our knowledge
through collaborating with peers and
lecturers. 21st century Class room
“Active Learning”

8. Project-Based & Research-Driven
The learning process was project based through most of
the modules. It was a dynamic approach to teaching in
which we have to explore real-world problems and
challenges, simultaneously it allowed me to develop
communication skills while working in small collaborative
groups.
This project-based learning is filled with active and
engaged learning, it inspired me to obtain a deeper
knowledge of the subjects we are studying. It also
developed my research skills and it made it easier for me
to retain the knowledge gained through this approach far
more readily than through traditional textbook-centred
learning methods of the 20th Century.

9. Active Learning
Through most of the time
our weekly meetings (Not
Lectures), it was merely
discussions about what we
have researched in groups
the previous week and
drawing conclusions from
our own thinking and
experiences.
We experimented with
Blogs, On-line gaming
researching through the
internet and investigated
several gaming platform http://www.edutechie.ws/2007/10/09/cone-of-
experience-media/
and theories and their link
to learning.

10. Tools I have used (BLOGS & Social Networks)

11. Tools I have used (BLOGS & Social Networks)
Our first task was to set a web learning space for our
group. Few options of blogs and social networks to
choose from. We decided that each member of the
group to research two providers. We set some criteria to
evaluate those site which included the following:
1. Popularity
2. User Friendliness
3. Target Audience
4. Privacy
5. Site capabilities to upload and embed different
formats of files and presentations.
6. Space limitation
7. Cost

12. Tools I have used (Our Choice)

13. Tools I have used (Word press .com)
Our choice was WordPress.com. This became our learning space for all
our assignments. It was extremely helpful to share different
perspectives of different topics and assignments. We shared our
knowledge at our convenience. We placed direct links to all the
recommended readings and videos for each topic .
We linked it to other networks like facebook and twitter. We faced some
privacy issues with twitter and when set it to the level we aimed for it
became fairly inaccessible which defeat ed the object.
We looked “Doing Good” through social media but due to the time
constraints and the different perspective of each member of the group
on “What is good” not much progress was made.
We raised other topics in wordpress like “Volunteer Options in
Numeracy in the Local Area” which was vey helpful to many of us.

14. Tools I have used (Other Tools)
I have used various other tools
throughout this module.
Google: I have used Google search
engines which was quite helpful to find
some of the information I needed for my
project and it is powerful “Popularity
Indexing Algorithm”
Wikipedia : My experience with
Wikipedia was not the best because
of the amount of incorrect
information which was of a great
concern to me in this module and
other modules. The credibility of its’
information is a major issue.
I experienced several web
presentation packages like Prezi,
Storify and Slidedhre. My choice for
this presentation was slideshare
because it suits my needs for this
presentation .

15. Topics Of Interest (Daniel Soar - 'It knows)
Daniel Soar - 'It knows' (London Review of Books 06/10/11)
The book review reflects the “Googlisation” of our everyday lives. This
intelligent algorithm which tracks our trails on the internet and interpret
them into a powerful database of information about our interests, habits
and our lives more or less in real-time. It use a highly complicated neural
networks system (Artificial Intelligence) to develop its’ performance and
accuracy.
Google like any other cooperation is money driven and its commodity is us
(our information) and it is used for marketing purposes. Currently Google is
monopolizing the telecommunication market indirectly by giving them
Android free software which is contributing to the expansion of it’s
information database.
Android is being paid a certain percentage of Google’s advertising market.
This information held by Google can also be used more positively to
enhance the quality of our lives for e.g. like what the writer suggested about
using it’s statistical power to estimate flu levels.
I feel now that I am stalked 24/7. How would you feel about that….

16. Topics Of Interest John Naughton ‘Is the internet changing
the way we think’
John Naughton ‘Is the internet changing the way we think’ (Observer
15/08/10).
In this article John Naughton is displaying a discussion thread about
Nicholas Carr controversial essay “ Is Google Making Us Stupid”. Basically ,
the essay is about How Nicholas Carr started noticing how is his reading
habits are changing and that he is finding it difficult to concentrate when
reading a couple of pages of a book . He is blaming the internet for
physically changing our brains and he refers to modern neuroscience and
the ”plasticty” of the human brain and how habitual practices can change
our neuronal structure.
Few neural scientist and psychologists disagree with Carr and thinks that
this is a pessimistic view. Steven pinker(Harvard Professor) believes that is
this is a moral panic that accompanies new technologies and he compared it
with the launch previous technologies. Some people think that Internet has
enhanced human intelligence and others argues due to complexity of our
environment they need the net as “ power steering for the mind.

17. Topics Of Interest LUCAS, B. & CLAXTON, G. New Kinds of Smart
“Intelligence is Distributed”
In this chapter the writer speaks about humans how they invent smart tools to
enhance their intelligence and this is a defining characteristic of the human
species.
It also talk about concept of distributed intelligence where intelligence is not
only an attribute of an individual but it is an interaction of human intelligence
and collaboration with other individuals, with their tools and with their artefacts
[Csikszentmihalyi, 1996].
Distributed intelligence [Fischer, 2005; Salomon, 1993] provides an effective
theoretical framework for understanding what humans can achieve and how
artefacts, tools, and socio-technical environments can be designed and
evaluated to empower human beings and to change tasks.
He also refers to the ‘Person-plus’ term i.e. The person plus his pen or laptop
or internet etc…. These tools also change us and similarly with all sorts of
technology as they change we change with them
It also stresses that educators should help kids to expand their imagination and
creativity by using different digital tools and has to mange the right balance so
they don’t become dependant on them i.e. create tool minded generation.

18. Topics Of Interest Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Jane’s goal is to make it as easy as to save the world in real life as it is in on-line
gaming.
Watching the videos of Jane McGonigal made me look at the gaming world in a
different perspective. She reflects on the positive emotions of the gamers in the
gaming world, like how energised they become and fully engaged in what they
are doing, and the level of optimism of the gamers that they can succeed and
how they become resilient to failure. While in real life we become defeated,
overwhelmed and anxious when we face an obstacle. In the game world we
become collaborative and trusted to be able to achieve the mission and we also
build better social bonds.
One very important issues she raised that “ The mission is perfectly matched
with your current level in the game and you can do it but it is on the verge which
means that you have to try hard to achieve”. Will the gaming world be the
platform for Education since the gaming world provide the individual with all
the element to achieve the “EPIC Mission”
According to research the average young person spend 10,000 hours by the age
of 21 which is equivalent to the number of hours spent in education from the
age 10 to 18 if spent in any specific area we will be a highly experts in that areas
according to “The outliers” by Malcolm Gladwel.

19. Can We see the Future? What is happening to my Brain?
Is the Internet eating our brains? According to Nicholas Carr in his book
“The shallows” the internet is changing our shape and size of our brains.

20. Can We see the Future? Is Technology Fracturing Your Family?
Think about your family life, and ask yourself if technology is bringing you
closer or farther from the people you care about?
I think that the opportunities for developing the brain's neural networks
that control our face-to-face social skills - what many define as our
humanity - are being lost or at least compromised, as families become
more fractured. (Dr. Gary Small Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA).

21. Can We see the Future? Are we Turning into Internet Addicts.
Tense? Angry? Can't get online? Internet addiction is now a serious public
health issue that should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder,
according to a leading psychiatrist. The Observer, David Smith technology
correspondent Sunday March 23, 2008.