The opportunities for 21st century teachers in a world of
open-data, -courses, -content and analytics.
Mark Horner
Director @ Siyavula Education
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Rule 1:
Don't panic
Rule 1:
Don't panic
Seriously!
Too much, too fast?
Too old?
The internet is a dangerous place?
Too much, too fast?
74M sites, 33.7M posts per month
1.4M photos per day
100 hours of video uploaded every minute
500+ million TPD; record 143 199 TPS
Rule 2:
Extract value and don't besentimental
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Too old?
Seriously? Not a chance ...
Too old?
Raymond Chandler started writing in his early 40s after losing
his job as an oil-industry executive during the great depression.
His first novel The Big Sleep was published in 1939. He was 51.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age
Too old?
The average age at which Nobel laureates make their prizewinning
breakthroughs was recently found to be 48. Harry Kroto, who won the
chemistry prize in 1996, made his when he was 46.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age
Too old?
Philosopher Mary Midgley had brought up three children and
worked as a lecturer in provincial British universities for more
than 20 years when she published her first book at the age of 56.
Later she remarked: "I wrote no books until I was a good 50, and
I'm jolly glad because I didn't know what I thought before then."
Her most recent book, The Solitary Self: Darwin and the selfish
gene, was published in 2010, when Midgley was 91.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age
Too old?
Ultramarathon runner Marco Olmo started running in his 20s but
didn't win his first big title until he was 50. In 2006, aged 58,
he won the 166-kilometre Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc considered one
of the world's toughest races and proved it wasn't a fluke by
winning again the next year.
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The internet is a dangerous place?
Anonymity
Invisibility
Stop/start communication
Voices in your head
Imaginary world
No police
Rule 3:
Be aware of online behaviour and take advantage of it
Rule 0:
Don't miss out!
A few concrete examples to get you started ...
Create a Twitter account if you don't have one and, as a start,
follow:
Frank Noschese @fnoschese Just a physics teacher. #modphys
#physicsed #sbgchat #180blogNY/CT fnoschese.wordpress.com
Rhett Allain @rjallain Physics faculty, wired science blogger
and author of Angry Birds Furious Forces. I once gave up coffee.
Sadly, I realized it was the source of my superpowers.Hammond,
Louisiana, USA wired.com/wiredscience/d
Dan Meyer @ddmeyer I like to teach.Mountain View, CA
blog.mrmeyer.com
Nic Spaull @NicSpaull Aspiring SA education-guru. Think, read,
research, write & repeat.Bio-
http://ysa2013.mg.co.za/nicholas-spaull/ Digital repository -
http://www.nicspaull.com/South Africa nicspaull.com
Frank Noschese @fnoschese
Rhett Allain @rjallain
Dan Meyer @ddmeyer
Nic Spaull @NicSpaull
Your turn to blog ...
Technology & Community & Openness
But blogging was the cheapest, most risk-free investment I could
have made of my personal time into my job. You start by writing
down things that are interesting to you, practices you dont want to
forget. And then you start trying new things just so you can blog
about them later, picking them apart, and dialoging over them with
strangers. Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to
correspond to periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You start to
muse on your job when youre stuck in traffic, in line for
groceries, that sort of thing. That transformation has been nothing
but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot blog.
Technology & Community & Openness
Take advantage of the MOOC .
Rule 2:
Extract value and don't besentimental
Remember!
There are opportunities for learners to participate in the
citizen cyberscience movement .
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Don't miss out!
Don't panic
Extract value and don't besentimental
Be aware of online behaviour and take advantage of it
Thank you!
Mark Horner
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@marknewlyn
http://www.markhorner.net
