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Open & Collaborative Learning How Social Networks Are Transforming Education Dr. Alec Couros March 2010 For Saskatoon Cyberschool

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Open & Collaborative Learning

How Social Networks Are Transforming Education

Dr. Alec CourosMarch 2010For Saskatoon Cyberschool

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changes

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context

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Each technology creates a new environment.

The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.

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quick stats (2009)

• 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users

• 234 million websites

• 1.73 billion Internet users

• 126 millions blogs

• 350 million Facebook users

• 4 billion images on Flickr

• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.

Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

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Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

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David Wiley

@opencontent

Then vs Now

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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David Wiley

@opencontent

Education vs Everyday

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to:

•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.

•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces

@zephoria

danah boyd

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• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”

• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.

@mwesch

Michael Wesch

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enablers(for connected learning)

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“A key to transformation is for the teaching

profession to establish innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do,

collective sharing.” ~ ~Hargreaves

F/OSS Movement

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Free Tools

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Open Content

“describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization,

firm, or individual. (wikipedia)

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Open Access

“The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible

to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)

open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events

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Ubiquity

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Personal Learning Networks

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that are enhanced by ...

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Real-time search

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Real-time collaboration

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Real-time streaming

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

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that help to create ...

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Disruptive media

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Social Learning

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Disruptive Education

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practice

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connecting educators

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Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

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Grade 6 - Global Connections

@zbpipe

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Highschool - Youtube Channel

@amhwrites

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HigherEd - Open Courses

eci831.wikispaces.com

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Professional Identities

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PD Gone Wild

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Thinning Walls

Private Public

Closed Open

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why this matters?

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new possibilities for

@willrich45

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this is not going away

new possibilities for

social media provides engagement/motivation

ethical responsibility of schools

incredible possibilities for teaching and learning

good teaching is shared & transparent

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web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros

[email protected]

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another

time. ~Tagore