Network Literacy:Leveraging the Potential

of a Hyperconnected World

Tectonic Shift "For any given organization, the important questions are 'When will the change happen?' and 'What will change?' The only two answers we can rule out are never, and nothing." Clay Shirky

 

 

 

Network Literacy

 

 

 Not just our students.

 Can we do that for ourselves?

“'What can you do?' has been replaced with 'What can you and your network connections do?' Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”

--Jay Cross, Informal Learning

1. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Create: Q. What are we creating?  

A. Connections

Delicious Network Explorer

Q. Key to creating connections?

A. Sharing

Think about: Are you Googleable?

 

Can I find you? Can we connect?

2. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Q. What are we navigating?

A. People, Information, Links

"Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally."

"Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes."

"Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneousinformation."

Link

Think about: Are you an information editor?

A people editor?

3. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Q. What nurtures a network?

A. Diversity, Autonomy, Openness

Stephen Downes

Diversity is key.

4. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Q. Can you model safety for your students?

Q. Do you practice "reputation management"?

 

 

5. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Q. What does effective use look like?

A. Balanced, Focused, Meaningful

 

6. The ability to create, navigate and grow personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.

Q. Can you model ethical use for your students?

Creative Commons, Linking, Attribution, Civility, Citizenship

 

 

 

 

Q. For you, right now, which is the most successful/difficult piece?

CreatingNavigatingGrowingSafetyEffectivenessEthics

 

"We may well have reached a set of tipping points: Going forward, learning may be far more individualized, far more in the hands (and the minds) of the learner, and far more interactive than ever before. This constitutes a paradox: As the digital era progresses, learning may be at once more individual (contoured to a person's own style, proclivities, and interests) yet more social (involving networking, group work, the wisdom of crowds, etc.). How these seemingly contradictory directions are addressed impacts the future complexion of learning." --Howard Gardner

Online networks change distance

(Ulises Mejias)

Online, near and far are not physical distances.

“Near” is constructed.

“Nearness” is inclusion...

...”farness” is exclusion

The scale of our networks is changing

Knowledge resides in networks.

Learning in networks (assuming a connection) is an ongoing process, not an event.

The network is always learning.