Network Literacy & the Tools of Engagement

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Alec CourosMICDS - June 2009

#micds

Who is this guy?

Winners

Heroes

Open Courses

Who are you?

Thoughts & experience re:

on technology & learning?

What do you feel have been the

big changes wrt education?

Knowledge

Knowledge & Computing

Objectivism

Group growth

(Schwier)(Leinonen)

Individual growth

Cognitivism

Constructivism

Social Learning

Shifts in Education

Power & Control

A Connected Reality

• what is k?

• how is k acquired?

• how do we know what

we know?

• why do we know what

we know?

• what do humans know?

• who controls k?

• how is k controlled?

Key Questions

open source software

open contentopen access publication

open accreditation

open education

open access courses open teaching

free software

open educational resources

Forms of Openness

Influences

Available Tools

how we view learning - institutional & informal

open content, access, publication, accreditation

Accessible Knowledge

Social Reading

Toward Web 3.0

How do learners deal with the reliability of

information? How do we verify what is ‘true’?

How do we manage the ever increasing flow of

information?

Social Networks

• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.

• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.

• networks formed around shared interests & objects.

Social Networks

Human Network

Netbooks - 1:1

Microblogging

Nearly Now

As we approach a reality of reduced physical boundaries & greater connectedness, what

are the professional & pedagogical challenges faced by teachers? How do we overcome these?

Personal Learning Networks

The Way We Were

Rise of the PLN

My Blog, My Hub

Photo Sharing

Video Sharing

Spontaneous PD

Social Network Services

Slide Decks

Copyleft

How should schools deal with content ownership, student publishing, & sharing? Also,

what are the benefits and/or drawbacks of sharing & openness in schools?

Media Literacy

• Accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating messages in a variety of forms.

• Enable skillful creators, consumers, and disseminators of media.

• Facilitate an understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and influences of media forms.

Media Literacy

Offensive Content

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy

Offensive Content

Critical Thinking

Cyberbullying

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.

Spread of Media

Viral Videos

Spread of MediaControl & Choice

Sociality

Disruptive Forms

Surveillance Society

Transmedia

What are strategies for understanding new &

emerging media? How do we become participants?

How do we encourage and assess new forms of

creativity in our classroom?

In Practice

Grade One - Expert Visits

Grade Five - Choir on Youtube

Grade Seven/Eight - Classroom Studio

High School Math - Scribe Posts

University History - Twitter

Virtual Office Hours

Field Experience

Mindsets, Skills, Perspectives

lightbulbvs.

Understanding Media

Impact of Learning Environment

Small Tools, Loosely Joined

Distributed Conversations

Open Intent

Sharing by Default

Expert Visits

Private Public

Closed Open

Support

Professional Learning

New Roles for Educators

Outreach

sustained community

transformative experiences

move toward openness

gained technical skills

media literacies

empathy toward new literacies

greater community

Benefits

“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with everyone.”

“The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built,

it never has to end.”

“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to critique & review my

practice. I never knew how important social networks were. Now, I couldn’t be a teacher without being

connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”

What do you want to learn today?

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alec.couros@uregina.ca

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

in another time. ~Tagore