1. Personal Technologies in Education: Issues, Theories and Debates Steve Wheeler Plymouth University, UK

2. “The empires of the future will be empires of the mind." – Sir Winston Churchill http://en.wikipedia.org/

3. Learning in the digital age

4. Factory education model? http://farm4.static.flickr.com Synchronisation Batch processing Compartmentalisation Standardisation

5. Personalised Learning? http://www.delasallewaterford.com Are we preparing students for the future or for the past?

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/ Personal windows on learning

7. Trends in Learning & Development Just for me Apprenticeship model Just in case Standardised Courses Just in time Bespoke Courses Just for me Personalised Learning Personal Learning Environment

8. Personal Learning Networks Photo by Steve Wheeler

9. I store my knowledge with my friends

10. The personal learning agenda

11. http://www.homodiscens.com Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences http://www.excelsiorlearningcenter.com

12. Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are acknowledged

13. We are family http://pro.corbis.com

14. Wii are family! http://wiifitnessdepot.com

15. http://www.slashgear.com/babys-first-ipad-24121114/ “The average digital birth of children happens at about six months.”

16. Digital Natives? The Net Generation? http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/ Homo Zappiens?

17. http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html Digital Residents and Visitors (White & Le Cornu, 2012)

18. Learning Webs From this......... To this http://sm.irsd.k12.de.ushttp://blogs.silverlight.net

19. The VLE “Institutions that useVLEs are in danger of turning the Web back into a funnel” (Wheeler, 2009) http://www.chemistryland.com

20. Image source: http://www.radio-canada.ca Access to learning resources at any time Ability to connect to and learn with others Opportunity to publicly share what has been learnt - Ivan Illich (1970)

21. New technologies

22. The First Mobile Phone

24. Personal Devices http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6156510808/sizes/l/

25. Personal Learning Environment Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

26. http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5958585066 Mobile Learning

27. Learning 2.0 Tools Collaborating Sharing Voting Networking User generated content Architecture of participation Tagging

28. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/291379959_594fa8ef70.jpg BYOD or CYOD? One of the biggest issues is tracking and controlling access to corporate and private networks.

29. Theories for the digital age

30. 3 kinds of learner support Social support Academic support Technical support Reference: (Carnwell, 2000) Traditionally the domain of the teacher/tutor These are often provided by peers

31. “Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.” - Paulo Freire http://arts.anu.edu.au

32. http://campussolutionsinc.com/tag/reach-college-students/ We learn by teaching

33. Bearpit Pedagogy http://open.salon.com

34. Self organised learning For successful self organised learning the essential components are: Communication Reflection Collaboration Community Creative Tools Amplification

35. Heutagogy Flâneur Self-determined learning Hase & Kenyon

36. Making Connections In Connectivism, learning involves creating connections and developing a network. It is a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent properties, and self organised learning. (It’s not what you know, but who you know) Source: Wikipedia http://www.pestproducts.com

37. Rhizomes Deleuze & Guattari Anarchy of the Web

38. Rhizomatic learning Source: Cormier, D. (2008) http://davecormier.com/edblog/ © Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2008 “In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, [and is] a personal knowledge- creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.”

39. “How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances.” - Kevin Kelly http://www.global-images.net

40. Photo by Joyce Seitzinger