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The Social Network: Creating New Contexts for Learning
Mark [email protected]@silberbergmark
TodaysMeet: http://bit.ly/twt13-todaysmeetSpacePlace characters: http://bit.ly/twt13-characters
the world that's here
and the one we're evolving into
the challenge for schools:
not just better, but different
- Will Richardson
125 years?what about
5 years?
in 2008 NCTE adopted a set of
21st century literacies
active, successfulparticipants in this 21st century global
society must be able to:
develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology
build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others
so to pose and solve problems collaboratively
and strengthen independent thought
design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple
streams of simultaneous information
create, critique, analyze, and
evaluate multimedia texts
attend to the ethical responsibilities
required by these complex
environments.
are our students literate for 2013
and what lies ahead?
or are we still teaching to a 20th century definition
of literacy?
what purposes and what
responsibilities?
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"What we do online is something quite different: we curate our
private lives for public exposure. . . . We edit out certain bits, and
highlight others. . . . [This] requires that we acknowledge that certain
kinds of sharing can, in fact, advance a wider public good. . . ."
"[We need] to recognize that their increasingly public existence brings more promise than peril. We have to
learn how to break with that most elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk to strangers. It turns out that
strangers have a lot to give us that's worthwhile, and we to them."
- Steven Johnson in Time Magazine
Imagine for a second if we taught our teenagers to drive a car in the same manner we attempt to teach them about social media:
Driving lessons would be taught by adults (teachers or parents) with little or no experience of driving.
Driving lessons would only focus on what not to do.
Driving lessons would NEVER take place in an actual car.
- Dan Haesler
Digital Leadership Continuum for Schoolsfrom George Couros
external vs. internal "threat"avatars, identity and
messagingthe myth of "privacy"my "public" personnacitizenship obligations
Moving the classroom conversation online:
Establishing norms for the conversation:
Creating new spaces and opportunities for engagement:
An unanticipated benefit that allowed us to raise expectation and differentiate to better meet the needs of learners:
Connecting with a wider and more authentic audience:
Using the online space as a community commons:
Connecting with the wider school community:
Letting students
create the conditions
for new community
:
Building and overseeing the scaffolding and then getting out of the way:
Making the technology invisible so that the focus is on the learning:
Students learn letter writing, phone calling, email and interview, Skype skills that they use to identify and work with partner organizations
Groups create web sites on our Elgg social media site to document their work
They blog about their site visits, interviews and their developing understanding of the issues. Peers and partners comment on their posts.
They join in with and initiate actions to support their partner organizations
They plan workshops to teach 5th-7th graders about their issue for our annual Social Justice Teach-In
for our consideration:
how might educators engage with digital technologies so that students can become empowered citizens rather than passive consumers?
what technological innovations will help to create a society where people can flourish within informed, democratic and diverse communities, as opposed to a culture of narcissists that are fragmented by a continuous partial attention?
- Phil McRae
The Social Network: Creating New Contexts for Learning
Mark [email protected]@silberbergmark
TodaysMeet: http://bit.ly/twt13-todaysmeetSpacePlace characters: http://bit.ly/twt13-characters
