It’s a Complex World.Now what?

Heidi Siwak

Understanding Media: Navigating Surveillance, Social Media and MarketingAssociation for Media Literacy

Toronto: Ted Roger’s School of Management, TorontoSaturday, October 18, 2014

My classroom is media and technology rich.

• Inquiry

We do interesting things!

3D Printer

Mapping

Digital Tools to create demonstrations of learning.

Create a tourism app.

Surveillance?

Student rights in a digital world?

Media Literacy has become complex.

• Massive amounts of data collected through online learning tools

• Confidential student information sitting in email accounts on devices

• Student agency in the posting of pictures/video by teachers

• Intellectual property rights of students• A student’s right to be forgotten• Who owns student data?

Prodigy

https://www.prodigygame.com/Canada/

Student Ownership of Data

The Added Layer

http://mediasmarts.ca/

Consequences played out in media?

What happens to the student who blogs a critical stance on a controversial issue?

And yet…

Powerful learning opportunities.

Meaningful learning.

Students as knowledge creators.

Student lives are digital.

Sometimes it’s just about funny.

How do we help students become better thinkers , problem solvers and decision makers as they engage with this incredibly complex world?

Association for Media Literacy

http://www.aml.ca/

How do we teach students to question their own conclusions?

Search Engine Silos

Confirmation Bias

http://bialien.wordpress.com/category/nanotechnology/

I teach thinking

Integrative Thinking

http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx

Mental Models

We don’t see past our first impressions.

Things are often framed for us.

What does a doctor look like?

Neurosurgeon

Freedom!

Our models are always incomplete

and therefore wrong.

Ladder of Inference

Provocation

Where are youon the ladder?

Willingness to Change a Conclusion

Gun shooting of Jordan Davis

Ladder of Inference

George Orwell’s House

System 1 Thinking – quick

System 2 Thinking - slow

Causal Models

Types of Problems

Simple: A + B = C

Complicated: How do I get to the airport from the Ted Rogers School of

Management?

Wicked

All Summer in a DayRay Bradbury

http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/English%20Department%20LVillage/RT/Short%20Stories/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf

The Knowledge Building Circle

Knowledge Building

Finding Value in Bad Ideas

Entrenched positions are not useful.

Either … or choices are limiting

Pro Pro Model

A World of Total Surveillance• Describe the model• Identify 3 stakeholders• (Government, Citizen, Business• Find value

• Safety

A World of 0 Surveillance• Describe the model• Identify 3 stakeholders• (Government, Citizen, Business)• Find value

• Freedom

Students as Design Thinkers

How might we design a web that is safe, allows privacy to be protected and businesses to prosper; that fosters positive social relationships and enables the advancement of knowledge ?

Constructive Surveillance?

http://www.animaljam.com/parents

Transparency and Control

http://www.aboutads.info/

Knowledge

https://www.ghostery.com/en/

Design

Sum it Up!

Yes, the world is complicated.

Provide learners with a toolkit for thinking and problem solving.

Teach learners how to manage their information.

Advocate for transparency and user control.

There are benefits to participation.

LinksThe Amaryllis http://www.heidisiwak.com/

Integrative ThinkingHWDSB Integrative Thinking Initiative http://ithink.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/University of Toronto, Rotman Ithink http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facultyandresearch/researchcentres/desautelscentre/programs/i-think.aspx

Knowledge Building http://knowledge-building.org/

Privacy

Privacy by Design http://www.privacybydesign.ca/TOR https://www.torproject.org/Ghostery https://www.ghostery.com/en/Respect Network https://www.respectnetwork.com/Alternative Digital Citizenship http://www.privacybydesign.ca/index.php/alternative-digital-citizenship/Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/ MISA The Ontario Student Data Management System http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/misa/

Digital CitizenshipStudent digital rights and responsibilities. https://aclu-wa.org/student-rights-and-responsibilities-digital-age-guide-public-school-students-washington-stateMedia Smarts : Teaching Students about surveillance and privacy http://mediasmarts.ca/

Photo Credits

https://www.flickr.com/photos/two-wrongs/17609875/in/photostream/ http

://meetsobsession.com/2011/fashion-design/american-medical-association-questions-the-effects-photoshopped-ads-may-have-on-teens/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/politics/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-data-program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0https://images.angelpub.com/2012/06/12921/orwell.jpghttps://images.angelpub.com/2012/06/12921/orwell.jpg