Social and participatory media and new digital literacies

Gráinne Conole, Leicester University15th May 2012

Keynote, Dublin City Universityhttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197

Outline

• New technologies• Learner experience• Digital literacies• Open practices• Memes and metaphors• Importance and implications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUeL3n7fDs

User generated content

Peer critiquing

Networked

Collective aggregation

Personalised

Open

Social media revolutionThe machine is us/ing us

www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/EvidenceNet/Conole_Alevizou_2010.pdf

Technologies• Transforming everything we do• New forms of communication

and collaboration• Multiple rich representations• Tools to find, create, manage,

share• Networked, distributed, peer

reviewed, open• Complex, dynamic and co-

evolvinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/6638184545/

Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

• Take the long view• The web is not the net• Disruption is a feature• Ecologies not economics• Complexity is the new reality• The network is now the computer• The web is evolving• Copyright or copywrong• Orwell (fear) or Huxley (pleasure)http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/

http://memex.naughtons.org/

IPTS report

• Confident/critical use of technologies for work, leisure and communication

• Digital divide• The network is key• More participatory and

open practices

http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC67075_TN.pdf

Benefits

• Social• Health• Economic• Civic• Cultural• Societal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaquell/4329902002/

Issues• Personal safety/privacy• Responsible, ethical, legal • Understanding digital media• Inequalities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3668208527/

• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-

orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social

• Personalised digital learning environment

• Mix of institutional systems and cloud-based tools and services

• Use of course materials with free resources Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010

Learner experience

http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic

Digital literacies: definition• Socio-cultural view of digital literacy - set

of social practices and meaning making of digital tools (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008)

• Continuum from instrumental skills to productive competence and efficiency

http://www.flickr.com/photos/r8r/4109502436/

Play

Performance

Simulation

Appropriation

Multitasking

Distributed cognition

Collective intelligence

Judgement

Transmedia navigation

Networking

Negotiation

Jenkins et al., 2006

Digital literacies

Transmedia navigation

Distributed cognition

Salamon, 1993

Play

http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift/

Networking

Collective intelligence

http://www.flickr.com/photos/immaginoteca/4323915058/

Performance

• Digital identity • Degree of openness• Communication and collaboration

Citation indicators

Creativity• Derived from Latin ‘creo’ to

create/make• Creating something new

(physical artefact or concept) that is novel and valuable

• Ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, partners, relationships and create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaxzine/2278300537/

Why is it important?• Essential skill to

deal with today’s complex, fast and changing society

• Discourse and collaboration are mediated through a range of social and participatory media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/370788912/

Stages• Preparation: identifying

the problem• Incubation:

internalisation of the problem

• Intimation: getting a feeling for a solution

• Illumination: creativity burst forth

• Verification: idea is consciously verified, elaborated and appliedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/5230835657/

iCreatNet

http://www.imv.au.dk/icreanet/

Creativity and openness

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Pandora’s box

Open resources Open courses

Open scholarship Open research

Open practices

Open resources

http://www.oer-quality.org/

Open courses

http://mooc.ca/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

MassiveOpen Online Course

Open Design

Shift from belief-based, implicit approaches to design-

based, explicit approaches

Encourages reflective, scholarly practices

Promotes sharing and discussion

Learning DesignA design-based approach to creation and support of

courses

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/

ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design

ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for

and why?

http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/

Carpe Diem:7Cs of learning Design

Open accreditation

www.p2pu.org/en/

Peer to Peer University

wikieducator.org/OER_university/

OER University

• Exploiting the digital network• New forms of dissemination

and communication• Promoting reflective practice• Embracing the affordances of

new technologies

Open scholarship

Weller: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

Open research

Citation indicators

Metaphors

EcologiesSpaces

Memes Rhizomeshttp://e4innovation.com/?p=489

Ecologies

• Co-evolution of tools and users

• Niches colonisation of new habitats

• Survival of the fittest

MemesAn internet meme is somethingThat spreads like wildfire on theWeb (Blackmore)

To describe the interactionwith digital technologies

What makes us different Is our ability to imitate

The Internet allows forThe unprecedented Spreading of ideas

Issues in terms of convergence of thought

Spaces

Campbell, 72

Rhizomes

A rhizome is a stem of a plant that sends out roots as it spreads. Describes the way that ideas are multiple, interconnected and self-replicating. A rhizome has no beginning or end like a learning process

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic-learning-why-learn/

Importance

• Changing nature of education

• New forms of communication and collaboration

• Rich multimedia representation

• Harnessing the global network

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10537908@N07/5904661557/

Implications

• Blurring boundaries• New business models• More open practices• Changing roles• Importance of new

digital literacy skills• Disruptive and

complex

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/

Conclusion

• Co-evolving• Disruptive• Unpredictable• Complex• New opportunities• Social

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Good reads

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

http://memex.naughtons.org/

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2397Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer

Chapters available on dropboxgrainne.conole@le.ac.uk