The document discusses several pedagogical challenges of 21st century learning including flexibility, decentralization, collaboration, and educators taking on a mentor role. It also notes the importance of "hybrid learning" and active learning. Additionally, it examines how students access technology unevenly, but are generally connected digitally in some way on campus. Finally, it provides examples of how students leverage informal learning spaces like social media and mobile phones to communicate with peers and teachers about academic topics.

1. Pedagogical challenges
•Flexibility
•Decentralisation
•Collaboration
•Educator as
mentor
•“Hybrid learning”
•Active learning

2. 21st Century Learner
Bumpy
Traffic
Cant get where you want to go
Have to wait
Lots of people
Take time

4. http://www.e-competencies.org/

7. • access is varied and unequal
Years ICT experience of under 22 yr olds
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
0.00%
< 2 years ago 2-4 years ago 4-6 years ago 6-10 years ago 10-15 years ago >15 years ago
Czernieiwcz and Brown 2010

8. • Students on campus are all digitally connected
in some way.
• BUT digital does mean something different to
everyone

13. Mobile rules
• South African residents lead as one of the highest
users of mobile technology and mobile social
networking on the continent. However, stationary
Internet and computer ownership lags. (Unicef
2012)
• South African adolescents and youth are the first
adopters of mobile technology, with 72 per cent
of 15 –to 24-year olds “having a cell phone.”
(Unicef 2012)
• The only sustainable way forward is to exploit
devices students already own and use (Traxler
2013)

14. Invisible learning spaces

15. Informal learning
• At one stage I was trying to learn Spanish, which did not go very well. I was
in contact with three people from different parts of the world and would
chat to them to practice it.
– Student O Int 2 UCT Ref 6
• Use Facebook to get quick responses to certain questions that may
appear in the exams.
– Student Y Int 2 RU Ref 1
• For example; say you have a friend who is always on Facebook, and you
know that want like a book from them or maybe you just want to ask
about something education wise, you can just contact them using
Facebook
– Students U Int 1 FHU Ref 2
• He does use social media for exam preparation: he shares interesting
examples on Facebook with friends,
– Student G Int 2 RU Ref 1

16. Informal Learning
• two previous teachers on facebook and sometimes talk to
them for advice about academic stuff at University
– Student D Int 2 UFS Ref 3
• She uses her cellphone all the time to communicate with
people about academic stuff. She communicates with a
lecturer as well via Facebook; with her one tutor in English.
She does communicate with her old art teacher from High
School. He is still teaching art and she studies media, so “I
sometimes asks him some things; which relate to the
media, sort of, and also architecture”.
– Student E Int 2 UFS Ref 2

17. •Leveraged academic work as a film
student by uploading two Film
Production course videos he did to
Vimeo and one to YouTube.
•believed these presences support his
ability to network and develop a
career in film
•connected with important people
and organisations, like the Ghetto
Film School of LA
• Entered a competition
• chosen to be showcased at the
Sundance Film Festival UCT students Katey Carson (second from
•prize-winning entry sponsored his right) and Dylan Bosman (third from right)
attendance. at the Sundance Film Festival in Los
Angeles, where their short films were
screened.

18. Core References
Available online
UNICEF 2012 – South African Mobile generation
http://www.unicef.org/southafrica/SAF_resources_mobilegeneration.pdf
Traxler 2013 – Context as text in mobile digital literacy http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-955/papers/paper_42.pdf
FutureLab 2012 – Digital Literacy across the curriculum http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/digital-
literacy-across-curriculum-handbook
Beetham and Sharpe 2010 Digital Literacy Framework
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/46740204/Digital%20literacy%20framework
Brown and Czerniewicz 2010 – Debunking the Digital Native
http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/files/file/2010/Debunking%20the%20digital%20native%20draft.doc
Brown 2012 – University students as Digital Migrants
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1371