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1. Social and participatory media
and new digital literacies
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University
15th May 2012
Keynote, Dublin City University
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197
2. Outline
• New technologies
• Learner experience
• Digital literacies
• Open practices
• Memes and metaphors
• Importance and implications
5. 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-
evolving http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/6638184545/
6. 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/
7. 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
8. Benefits
• Social
• Health
• Economic
• Civic
• Cultural
• Societal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaquell/4329902002/
9. Issues
• Personal safety/privacy
• Responsible, ethical, legal
• Understanding digital media
• Inequalities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3668208527/
10. • 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
11. 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
21. 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/
22. 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/
23. 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 applied
http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/5230835657/
29. Open Design
Shift from belief-based, implicit
approaches to design-based,
explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly
practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning Design
A design-based approach to
creation and support of
courses
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
30. Consolidate
Evaluate and embed your design
Conceptualise
What 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
32. • 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/
37. Memes
An internet meme is something
That spreads like wildfire on the
Web (Blackmore)
To describe the interaction
with digital technologies
What makes us different
Is our ability to imitate
The Internet allows for
The unprecedented
Spreading of ideas
Issues in terms of
convergence of thought
39. 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/
40.
41. 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/
42. 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/
Instrumental knowledge and skills for digital tool and media usage;
2) Advanced skills and knowledge for communication and collaboration, information management, learning and problem-solving, and meaningful participation;
3) Attitudes to strategic skills usage in intercultural, critical, creative, responsible and autonomous ways. Instrumental knowledge and skills are a precondition for developing or using more advanced skills.
