Implications of cultural & technical changes on learning and teaching Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Who Me? Marketer, technologist, educator and renaissance woman www.katecarruthers.com www.digbiz.com.au Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Marketer, technologist, educator and renaissance woman

www.katecarruthers.com

www.digbiz.com.au

Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Hyperconnectivity Not 6 degrees of separation Perhaps only 1 degree Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Source: http:// www.popsci.com.au/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/734px-Six_degrees_of_separation.jpg

Not 6 degrees of separation

Perhaps only 1 degree

Massive Interconnections SMS Facebook MySpace Twitter Mobile Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

SMS

Facebook

MySpace

Twitter

Mobile

Consumption On-Demand No more waiting What I want When I want it Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/17/bittorrent-is-now-streaming-movies-with-ads-but-wheres-the-good-stuff/

No more waiting

What I want

When I want it

Tribal Brains Wired to deal with smaller groups Wired for small chunks of information No epic poems for us today Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Wired to deal with smaller groups

Wired for small chunks of information

No epic poems for us today

Tribal Creatures Tribe size Dunbar’s number = 150 We mesh into subgroups based on common interests Increasingly loose ties Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Tribe size

Dunbar’s number = 150

We mesh into subgroups based on common interests

Increasingly loose ties

Chunking & Small Groups Growth of knowledge Too much knowledge to keep in our heads No more epic poetry Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Source: http://www.familycourtchronicles.com/philosophy/spartan/spartan-brad-pitt.jpg

Growth of knowledge

Too much knowledge to keep in our heads

No more epic poetry

Even minority groups can get together using this technology Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

Even minority groups can get together using this technology

Technology “ A fool with a tool is still a fool” Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers

“ A fool with a tool is still a fool”

Technology Technology can help us Wikis, blogs, etc Next semantic web and mobile Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Reuters reported this small wearable TV in 2007 Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2007/05/22/never-ever-dont-watch-tv-again/

Technology can help us

Wikis, blogs, etc

Next semantic web and mobile

Challenges Institutions = slow to change Individual = teachers embracing change Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Source: http://anarchonation.blogspot.com/2008/07/attackthesystemcom-american.html

Institutions = slow to change

Individual = teachers embracing change

Boundaries Time Place Content Authority Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_wall_Greenhead.jpg

Time

Place

Content

Authority

Sensemaking Co-creation Facilitation Mutual respect Variable learning spaces Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Source: http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/surprised_baby_2.jpg

Co-creation

Facilitation

Mutual respect

Variable learning spaces

Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers Slides are available at www.slideshare.net/carruthk