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Rethinking Teaching & Learning in a Networked Reality
Dr. Alec CourosJanuary 2010ECMP 355
Who is this guy?
My Blog, My Hub
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Social Network Services
Content Sharing
Copyleft
“Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research,
teaching, and services responsibilities - only if scholars choose to build serious academic lives online,
presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and
students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)
social networks & media
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
Social Networks
A Connected Reality
Old World Networks
Mario Couros
Mediated Reality
Twitter in 60 Seconds
Each technology creates a new environment.
The old environment becomes content for
the new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their form
not their content.
David Wiley(Brigham Young University)
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley(Brigham Young University)
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
The Way We Were
Rise of the PLN
trust
easy trust
humankind is mostly good
View on Society?
“Some of the comments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.”
(Lev Grossman)@leverus
@zittrain• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through Internet-facilitated kindness, collaboration, & sharing.
The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (TED Talk)
• 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”.
The Machine is (Changing) Us(Personal Democracy Forum)
@mwesch
Heroes for our Mediated Culture
educators and trust
via @mcleod
via @shareski
i can haz internetz
learners and trust
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
Living & Learning with Social Media(Penn State address)
@zephoria
“Kyle Doyle is not going to work today, f*** it,
I’m still trashed SICKIE WOO.”
“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and
hating the work.”
• Scottish teen who participates in my open, online grad course.
• Creative, motivated, independent, connected, respectful, cognizant and intentional in managing his digital identity.
Bassman_Sean(Scotland)
@bassman_sean
Sociality
Disruptive Forms
in practice
Grade One - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy
Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Grade Six - Global Connections
@zbpipe
Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding
@glassbeed
Beaver Country Day School - mashUp
EC&I 831 -Non-Credit
pay attention to ...
Access
Ubiquity
Real Time Web
RT Search
RT Collaboration
Social Reading
Trusted Groups
New Roles for Educators
Professional Identities
Professional Development Gone Wild!
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
• The future of learning is open, connected, & social.
• Learning networks redefine how knowledge is created, distributed & controlled.
• Meaningful learning can be fostered through informal learning networks.
The Big Ideas
web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
