Mahara Hui presentation at Southampton Solent November 2015

1. Navigating the digital landscape
reflecting on the hyperlink - how has this changed the way we live?
parallels more familiar societal shifts that resulted from air travel, increased interest in languages/other cultures
history of CALL - technologies developed through military needs to function effectively in unfamiliar environments
CMC - landscape for language learning changed by mediated through computers
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2. Navigating the digital landscape
to understand and find what you need
to behave appropriately in different contexts
to interact, share respectfully
in technical terms:
access details and password management, able to explore interface, differentiate between different forms of content, understand
relevant widgets, refine and perfect hypotheses,
beg acc student mahara project:
shared access to blank collection, volunteers asked to share resources they find useful to support language learning,
transversal skills - see DeSeCo project http://www.oecd.org/pisa/35070367.pdf
“new digital divide” Brandtzæg et al., 2010 - more nuanced, not binary in disctinctions between individuals
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3. Navigating the digital landscape
Chickering and Gamson published in 1987 principles for good practice resting on 50 years on the way teachers teach and
learners learn.
Chikering's theory of Identity development created specifically to examine student identity development process of HE students,
Education and identity revised and updated version published in 1993, descrubes policies and practices that will foster broad
based development of human talent necessary for 21st century.
these harness "unseen" forces in education
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4. Navigating the digital landscape
2nd of the 7 principles identified = reciprocity
"good learning is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated"
importance of modelling
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5. Navigating the digital landscape
link to student curated resources http://m2.warwicklanguage.org.uk/mahara/view/view.php?t=X6MCqwkeI4zcU7iBOmJ8
or tiny url:
http://tinyurl.com/omczc3u
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6. Navigating the digital landscape
Gertrud (sociologist) - out of generosity, right thing to do
Freddie (WBS) diverse friendship group, familiar with online resources
G it is a plus, I might be more immersed in learning french
cc and identity management:
could see why may be attractive option for some, G (Hungarian) "shows progress"
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7. Navigating the digital landscape
mahara's strength is also its weakness - supports display of lots of content so can be overwhelming (F)
multimodal learning
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8. Navigating the digital landscape
describing what is seen here
http://www.netpublic.fr/tag/veille/
canadian teachers
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/10/heutagogy-explained-for-teachers.html
powerful forces: expectations and modelling
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9. Navigating the digital landscape
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