A whistle-stop
tour of techie
things
CTYI Technology Day 2013
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A World of Knowledge In
My Pocket
Source: http://www.opte.org/maps/
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This is an OPTE image of the internet in 2005
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Each line is a route of data from one source to another
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Clusters represent large databases
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Not individual devices
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Imagine this with all connected devices represented, Desktops, Notebooks,
Netbooks, XBoxes, PS3s, Wiis, DSs, Mobile Phones, Smartphone, Tablets...
Knowledge at your fingertips
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Question - Who kills Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear?
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Does a chunk of the Remembering part of Bloom's Taxonomy
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Allows students to get to the understanding segment of ideas quicker
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Onward from there to analysis, creativity and evaluation of concepts
Fast!
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In CTYI context allows us to move at student's pace more easily
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Careful pacing lets students get through all levels of learning
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Engage students with instant information
Web Literacies are All-Important in the Information age[1]
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Exploring
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Creating
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Connecting
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Protecting
Apps for Education[2]
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Google_wordmark.svg/2000px-Google_wordmark.svg.png
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Free Apps Suite
○ Webmail
○ Calendar
○ Documents
○ Social
○ Integrated with 3rd party products (e.g. MIT App Inventor)
Youtube
○ Educational videos, uploadable by anyone
○ Google+ Hangouts can be recorded (reviewable classes/tutorials/study
groups)
○ MIT and others store courseware here
Open Source[3]
Source: http://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines#The_Standard_Logo
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Curate the open source license:
○ Free Distribution
○ Source Code
○ Derived Works
○ Integrity of Authors Source Code
○ No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
○ No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavour
○ Distribution of License
○ License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
○ License Must Not Restrict Other Software
○ License Must Be Technology Neutral
Example Licenses
○ Apache License 2.0
○ GNU General Public License (GPL)
○ Mozilla Public License 2.0
Popular Open Source Software
○ Linux (Variety of Flavours - Ubuntu is a good starting place)
○ Android (Yes the Google one)
○ GIMP (Photo manipulation)
○ OpenOffice (Office Suite)
Creative Commons[4]
Source: http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/
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nonprofit organization
enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge
free legal tools (the licenses)
range of licenses
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Attribution (CC By)
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Must attribute
Commercial ok
No Remix
Must attribute
Attribution-non-cmomercial-no-derivs
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Remix ok
Attribution no derivs
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Commercial ok
Redistributable (for free)
No remixing
Must attribute
Free and easy access to so much
Wikis[7]
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia%27s_W.svg
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Using them
○ Not as inaccurate as you may think
○ Highlight the need to learn and practice those higher order web
literacies
○ Students can learn by doing the fact checking
The Content
○ Academic fields often updated by professionals in the field
○ Often have some of the most up to date info, unpublished in popacademia magazines
○ Opensource peer reviewing
The Real Reason I Mention Them
○ Class wikis
○ Contributing exercises a host of skills, research and good writing
○ They become a research project in and of themselves
OpenCourseWare[5],[6]
Source: https://www.edx.org/
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Free to public courses
○ Started Germany 1999 (University of Tubingen)
○ Took of in the early 2000s with MIT OpenCourseWare
○ Evolved to edX
Lectures and other materials available to everyone for free!
○ Any subject you can imagine
○ Available free, produced by lecturers from prestigious institutions
○ Expert in their academic field
CTYI Cutting Edge Science 2013 (Post-primary)
○ Piloting our own OpenCourseWare for students
○ But why still come? - Feedback, synchronous, conversation and
debate facilitate higher order learning
○ Courseware by itself is just facts and figures, learning happens in the
living of a subject
CTYI Online Programmes
Source: http://sites.google.com/site/pclbologna/_/rsrc/1295479585796/home/emails.jpg
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Online Correspondence
○ Traditional Correspondence Layout
○ Tried and tested
○ Science and Humanities courses
Mission V
○ Pilot Project in 2011
○ Virtual worlds, new horizons for classes
○ Usable both online and mixed
CTYI Virtual Learning Environments Programme
○ New Research programme commencing May 2013
○ Developing online learning courses using a variety of environments
○ Programme of continual improvement for the courses and the
technologies we utilise
International Collaboration
○ Istanbul Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi - Istanbul Centre for Science and Arts
○ Chemistry & App Development Courses
○ Piloting March 2013
References and Resources
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Learning/WebLiteraciesWhitePaper, Accessed 201302-22
[2] http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/, Accessed 2013-02-23
[3] http://opensource.org/about, Accessed 2013-02-23
[4] http://creativecommons.org/about, Accessed 2013-02-23
[5] http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm, Accessed 2013-03-01
[6] https://www.edx.org/, Accessed 2013-03-01
[7] http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page, Accessed 2013-03-01
http://www.ted.com/ - Interesting lectures and talks on a number of areas
http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate - Similar to TED
https://webmaker.org/en-US/ - Get students making the web not just using it
http://scholar.google.com/ - Scholarly articles, not all are free (more useful postprimary)
http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics - Interesting physics videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart - Fun and quirky maths videos
https://www.khanacademy.org/ - Free online library of lessons in a number of
fields