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Networked Learning and Identity Development
in Open Online Spaces
Networked Learning Conference
Catherine Cronin • @catherinecronin • #nlc2014 • 07/04/14
Paper presented at Networked Learning 2014
as part of symposium titled:“Perspectives on Identity within Networked Learning”
with Jane Davis and Joyce Seitzinger
All full conference papers at http://nlc2014.sched.org/
“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”
– Joi Ito @joi
Quote: Joi Ito Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink
Flickr CC images: cdessums, infidelic, sholeh!
Space prepares you to receive or to respond.
“Sensing Spaces”Royal Academy of Arts
(via Jenny Mackness)
Social Networks
InternetMobile
Networked Individualism
Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
Networked Publics
danah boyd (2010)@zephoria
danah.org
space constructed through
networked technologies
the imagined collective which emerges
(people + tech + practice)
PRIVATE by default, PUBLIC by effort
PUBLIC by default, PRIVATE by effort
boyd (2010)
Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
Networked Teacher
about.me/catherinecronin
Networked Students too…
Student
Based on image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Classroom
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
As studies become more contextualised it seems that the real lesson of online identity is not that it transforms identity but that it makes us more aware that offline identity was already more multiple, culturally contingent and contextual than we had appreciated.
Danny Miller (2013)
Photo by George Miller(used with permission)
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NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Classroom
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
#icollab TAGSExplorerthanks to @mhawksey
We proposed the idea of a Third Space where teacher and student scripts – the formal and informal, the official and unofficial spaces of the learning environment – intersect, creating the potential for authentic interaction and a shift in the social organization of learning and what counts as knowledge.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Kris Gutiérrez (2008)
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People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit...
I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities .
Gutiérrez (2008)
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If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face... [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting thenegotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practices.
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Etienne Wenger (2010)
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Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media.
These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge.
- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
Thank you!Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
slideshare.net/cicronin
about.me/catherinecronin
Referencesboyd, dana (2010). Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. (pp. 39-58).
boyd, dana (2010). Making sense of privacy and publicity. SXSW 2010 keynote.
Facer, Keri & Selwyn, Neil (2010). Social networking: Key messages from the research. In R. Sharpe, H. Beetham & S. de Freitas (Eds.) Rethinking Learning For A Digital Age.
Gutiérrez, Kris D. (2008). Developing a sociocritical literacy in the Third Space. Reading Research Quarterly, 43(2), 148-164.
Ito, J. (2011, December 5). In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New York Times.
Miller, Danny (2013). Future Identities report. Foresight Project, DR2.
Rainie, Lee & Wellman, Barry (2012). Networked: The new social operating system. MIT Press.
Wenger, Etienne (2010). Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice SRHE Conference 2010. In deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader
Williams, Bronwyn T. (2013). Control and the classroom in the digital university: The effect of the CMS on pedagogy. In Goodfellow & Lea (Eds.) Literacy in the Digital University.
Paper presented at Networked Learning 2014
as part of symposium titled:“Perspectives on Identity within Networked Learning”
with Jane Davis and Joyce Seitzinger
All full conference papers at http://nlc2014.sched.org/
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