Presentation slides from the microlearning conference in Innsbruck, Austria.

1. Knowledge Building in New Media Environments Teemu Leinonen Learning Environments research group Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi University of Art and Design Helsinki

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4. " Any true understanding is dialogic in nature. " " All higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals. "

5. " Any true understanding is dialogic in nature. " - Mikhail Bakhtin " All higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals. " - Lev Vygotsky

6. Microlearning

7. micro = extremely small in scale or scope or capability learning = ?

8. 1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future (of learning)

9. 1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future (of learning)

10. What is learning?

11. Three Metaphors of learning Knowledge acquisition Participation Knowledge creation

12. Knowledge acquisition

13. Learning is an individual cognitive process

14. Participation

15. Learning is a socio-cultural process

16. Knowledge creation

17. Learning is a socio-cultural process with an intention to produce artefacts

18. Memorizing Acting Cultivating

19. Memorizing Acting Cultivating

21. Setting up Research Questions Creating the Context Constructing Working Theories Critical Evaluation Searching Deepening Knowledge Generating Subordinate Questions Developing New Working Theories Distributed Expertise (Hakkarainen 1999)

24. Setting up Research Questions Creating the Context Constructing Working Theories Critical Evaluation Searching Deepening Knowledge Generating Subordinate Questions Developing New Working Theories Distributed Expertise (Hakkarainen 1999)

25. Fle3 - Future Learning Environment - http://fle3.uiah.fi

26. 1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future (of learning)

27. What is a learning environment?

28. Learning environment is a psychological, social, cultural, physical and technological state that favours learning.

30. Pictures from Learning Environments

31. 1. Me and my computer

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35. 2. We and someone’s virtual world

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38. Second Life - about 2 million people from around the world. 2

39. 3. We and our world

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45. Instruments / Tools Object Subject Rules Community Division of labor Outcome (Yrjö Engeström 1987, 1999) Human Activity Systems

46. 1. Learning and knowledge building 2. Learning environments 3. Future of learning

47. History of ICT in education

48. “ The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing and caring.”

49. “ A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.”

50. “ A good education system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and finally furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.” Ivan Illich (1971); Deschooling Society

51. “ Image a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” “We make the Internet no suck.”

52. “ Image a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” “We make the Internet no suck.” 2005 Jimmy Wales

53. " The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "

54. " The best way to predict the future is to invent it. " Alan Kay 1971

55. 1996

58. 1998

61. 2000

64. 2002

66. 2006