Digital technologies are often presented as tools for education, but the most important tools are the conceptual ones - the ones that give us scope to re-think what we do with classrooms. Keynote for Swedish educators, in the context of many Swedish municipalities adopting 1:1 (one student, one device) technology policies.
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Network Education: Some Thinking Tools Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart University of Prince Edward Island August 2014
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1. Network Education: Some Thinking Tools Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart University of Prince Edward Island August 2014
7. NETWORK EDUCATION Information Abundance: context New Ethos:
pedagogical approach Literacies: goal(s)
8. Context
9. What is education for?
10. We cannot talk about education without talking about
literacies
11. Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to Knowledge
12. Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of Knowledge
13. Literacies, 2014 BCE = Management & Synthesis of
Knowledge
14. Information Abundance
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15. Structure of Abundance = Networks
16. To network education is to model the literacies for making
sense & contributing knowledge within information
abundance.
17. but abundance can become overload.
h"p://www.ickr.com/photos/striaDc/2191408271/
18. Its not information overload, its lter failure. - Clay
Shirky, 2008 h"p://www.ickr.com/photos/shadowplanet/4750073771/
FINE THEN.
19. Traditional Media Literacy Filters = Judgment, Analysis,
Critical Thinking
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20. But those are no longer sucient. Not all media &
information is coming from institutions - or via broadcast - any
longer.
21. h"ps://www.ickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/ Networks
are not just for consuming, but connecting.
22. Literate network citizens need to be able to lter AND
contribute within the constant, intermeshed streams of abundance,
without drowning.
23. Oh Good. Easy. J
24. hahahahahaha
25. Challenges of 1:1? #NetworkEdLin
26. Pedagogical Approach
27. Technologies do not necessarily change the ways we approach
learning
h"p://www.onlineuniversiDes.com/blog/2012/08/teaching-with-tablets/
28. Networks are not about online/oine
29. New tech + old approaches new literacies
30. New literacies = New ethos What is central to new
literacies is not the fact that we can now look up information
online or write essays using a word processor rather than a penbut
rather, that they mobilize very dierent kinds of values and
priorities and sensibilities. - Knobel & Lankshear (2007)
32. (sometimes you dont even need tech)
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33. Goal(s)
34. Waitwhat about standards? And measurement?
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35. A networked education l Connects l Cultivates l Curates
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36. but cannot control or count in the same ways as
institutional models of education
37. New Ethos Literacy = Attention
38. New Ethos Literacy = Contribution
39. New Ethos Literacy = Connection
40. New Ethos Literacy = Collaboration
41. New Ethos Literacy = Critical Consumption
42. Pedagogical Dierences Institutions product-focused mastery
bounded by time/space hierarchical ties plagiarism authority in
role audience = teacher Networks process-focused participation
always accessible peer-to-peer ties crowdsourcing authority in
reputation audience = world
43. Orthe short form:
44. But.
45. Dont assume networks are inherently equalizing