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E-educating the social worker
Eindhoven seminarMarch 2008
Neil BallantyneLearning technology manager
IRISS
Two papers
Ballantyne (1996)
“Child care social work & the Internet.”
&“Will IT change the face of social
work education & training?”
Then = 1996
Now = 2008
Paper one
In “Child care social work & the Internet.” I wrote
that...
“The Internet is here to stay.”
The Internet is here to stay!
ThenNow
Go back in time
Thenthere were an
estimated 40 million
internet users worldwide
Seemed like a
lot
Nowthere are an estimated
1,320 million internet users
worldwide
Now that is
a lot
Source: Internet world stats
But the digital divide remains
I also wrote that...
“While it is true that an important component of the
Internet is the global distribution of information....”
“...over emphasis on this function draws attention away from the value of
the Internet as a participatory medium for communication,
networking, and building & maintaining communities of interest.”
A participatory medium for communication, networking, and
building & maintaining communities of interest?
However…for a long time the Internet was a sprawling library of contentWith
some shopping
malls
And then…
Web 2.0
arrived
What is web 2.0?“…a perceived second generation of web-based communities and
hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and
folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration & sharing
between users.”
Source: Wikipedia (2007)
Paper 2.0
“Will information technology change the face of social work education &
training?”
& communications
A debate
Yes: Neil Ballantyne
No: Yanno Rafferty
What I wrote...
“...the real impact of new technology in social work
education and training may not arise from heavy investment in
externally designed courseware…”
“...it is the use of electronic networking in social work education that will enable a
paradigm shift.....away from a conception of new technology as
a a means of distributing information…”
“...towards an understanding of the role of learning
technology in supporting active learning &
educational dialogue...”
What Yanno wrote...
“social work is essentially about human interaction
which cannot be replaced by a computer...”
I agree but…
learning is essentially about human interaction which can be supported by a computer
“….a good trainer never actually uses the materials available - they pick and
choose and modify to suit the students they are working with...”
Yanno also wrote that…
and he’s right...
online content needs to permit adaptation &
modification
and online learning ought not to be about content
alone
but also about conversations
content & conversations
face2face & online
Face to facelearning
Onlinelearning
Conversations
Content
Online communities
Open learning materials
Resource-based learning
Facilitated discussions
Study groups
SeminarsSymposia
The course in a box
Teach & test courseware
Learning in the blender
Is there strongevidence thatany of this is
“changing the face of social work
education & training”?
Is the network revolution transforming the nature of learning?
Improving what is learned?
How quickly it is learned?
How much is learned?
…and doing this more than traditional teaching technologies?
No… technology does not cause learning
"The best current evidence is that media are merevehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck thatdelivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition" Clark (1983)
But…the affordancesof learning technology can support
effective pedagogical design.
And help make learning:more efficient…
more consistent…more flexible…
more affordable…more accessible
Many studies suggestthere is
no significant differencebetween learning with
technologyand with more
traditional methods
Source: No significant difference
But when studies suggestthere is no significant difference
between counselling skillsdeveloped working online
or face to facethen that is significant.
Source: Ouellette et al (2006)
Whilst the Internet and the sum of human
information & knowledge continues to
grow at an alarming rate…
Human learning is limited
by the fixed information
processing capacity of
human cognitive architecture
The Internet The neural netcognitive
socialemotional
How can technology bestsupport evidence-informed practice
in the workplace?
How to design effective educational multimedia?
Can web 2.0 be harnessedfor learning?
Some current concerns
thennow
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