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Future Scenarios of ICT in Education

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Facer and Sandford’s 2010 paper introduced 3 future scenarios of how the education system can change and develop, specifically as the following: World 1: Trust Yourself A highly individualised world of contingent and shifting allegiances in which there is no support for collective responses to social problems, and in which individuals are free/required to take high levels of personal responsibility for their actions. World 2: Loyalty Points A world where relationships between people and the groups they belong to are managed by contracts, where rewards and benefits are achieved in response to contributions and where personal reputations are carefully managed within their employment/ community/religious groups associations. Individuals are required/enabled to find their place within these groupings. World 3: Only Connect A world organised around a collective understanding of interdependence between people, between individuals and machines, between individuals and ecosystems, in which th...
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Q & A: Would you like hints or straight answers?

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Thank you very much for everyone who commented on my video! Here is the presentation video for your reference. In this post, I will answer some questions you guys brought up, and hopefully it will clear things up for you! The link for the actual paper is here . Question #1: Application in online community I think there is a related class this semester that focused on this topic as well. But as an outsider, what is formative assessment-based mobile learning, and whether a personalized assessment is applicable to the online community where a lot of users may hard to know. Formative assessment is a feedback system in which the users are provided with hints or supplementary materials rather than explicit right 🙆 or wrong 🙅 validity checks for their answers in an assessment. Formative assessment-based mobile learning is a mobile learning system in which we apply such feedback system in a mobile learning environment. In an online community consists of many users, everybody will make dif...
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An Online Gamified PLE that Actually Motivates Us

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 (Unfortunately the gamification part is purely imaginary. 😓) An Example of Personal Learning Environment with many software and websites you can choose from. 7am - I wake up, and grab my phone without thinking. My avatar just wakes up too, and oh my, she looks like a mess. To “clean her up”, I quickly get changed and check off my morning routine to-do list. OK, now she looks ready to work too. The app just notifies me that I get up earlier than 74% of my friends, and I receive a 10 day-streak badge.  8am - Time for morning language learning. I start the timer in the app and try to feed myself some German vocabularies . I know while I’m learning, my avatar is also earning in-game currency and leveling up. 30 vocabularies later, I share my progress of the day on Wechat with caption “how in the world can a word as simple as ‘soda’ be ‘das Erfrischungsgetränk’”. I receive a couple likes.    Pomodoro Timing Technique: Work for 25 mins without distractions, then...
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Thoughts on Mass Collaboration / Social Participation

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Image Source Why I am not a contributor The first time the term “mass collaboration” ever came into my mind, I was thinking what if everyone in China donated me 1 yuan. Wouldn't I become a billionaire? Then I realized if this plan ever got executed, it would probably be my parents donating like 2k (because they are my parents), my friends donating probably 5 each, while most of the others donate 0 because they don’t know me and don’t even bother. The same situation applies to most of the online mass collaboration platforms. Only a small amount of people is doing most of the work in generating and maintaining the shared contents. I too am part of the majority that make no contribution to the social capital. I did tried once. I tried editing a wiki page of a niche Japanese stage actor. The submission was successful. However, there were several problems: first, they never approved my changes; second, they didn’t tell me any specific reason why it was rejected; and third, the site ...
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