Social & Learning Implications

Social learning & other challenges
Kate Carruthers
Dec 2009
TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute Information Technology Conference
Dec 2009
© 2009 Kate Carruthers
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© 2009 Kate Carruthers www.katecarruthers.com
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Who Me?
Marketer,
Technologist,
Educator,
Student
& Renaissance woman
www.katecarruthers.com

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Agenda
Landscape
Social implications
Changing models
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The landscape
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Web 2.0
It is not new technology
It is new ways of using older technology
It is not using the old mindset where technology was the province of gurus
It is democratizing technology
It is applying new business models
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Macro Trends
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e.g. censorship of internet
e.g. global financial crisis
e.g. copyright & intellectual property
CONTEXT
e.g. growth of social computing & the digital divide
e.g. green computing & climate change

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Speed of Change
The speed of change is increasing & this is evident in the example of the telephone. It did not change for almost 100 years & now it changes every 3 months.

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Source: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1093/generations-online

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Source: http://pewinternet.org/Infographics/Growth-in-Adult-SNS-Use-20052009.aspx

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Source: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/alan-long/2009/12/social_networking_and_forums_t.html

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Hitwise, Social networks overtake webmail, November 06, 2007
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2007/11/social_networks_overtake_webma.html

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Hitwise, Social networks overtake Adult sites, Jan 2009
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2009/01/social_networks_overtake_adult_websites.html

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Source: Northside Coffee Mornings #nscm
“ The willingness & desire to be hyperconnected via technology will become the new generation gap.”

Social implications
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Massive Interconnections
SMS
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
Mobile
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Social networking is crashing the degrees of separation between individuals
Source: http://twitter.com/TurnbullMalcolm15/12/09

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Source: Christopher S. Penn http://www.christopherspenn.com/2008/09/04/social-media-and-new-media-are-not-the-same/
Shift from passive consumption to active acquisition of media

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

Tribal Brains
Wired to deal with smaller groups
Wired for small chunks of information
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Tribe size
Dunbar’s number = 150
Subgroups based on common interests
Increasingly loose ties

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Growth of knowledge
Too much knowledge to keep in our heads
No more epic poetry
Source: http://www.familycourtchronicles.com/philosophy/spartan/spartan-brad-pitt.jpg

Changing models
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Source: http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Social web values
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Source: Kate Carruthers Dec 2009

Traditional teaching
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Source: Kate Carruthers Dec 2009

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Even minority groups can get together using this technology

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“A fool with a tool is still a fool”

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

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Boundaries
Source: http://theserooms.blogspot.com/2007/12/self-care-involves-setting-boundaries.html

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

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Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

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Source: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php?

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Source:

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The rules are changing
We’re not in control any more. This brings opportunities!

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“… the shift towards the individual as the centre of a network of relationships mediated & enabled by technology …”
Source: Kevin Kelly, http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/11/four_stages_in.php

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“… it means decentralisation of power from the old authorities to a new model – & we do not yet know what that new model will be.”
Source: MIT's Technology Review: Mapping the Internet., http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/images/2007/06/22/net_periphery.jpg

Useful Resources
Generations Online in 2009 by Sydney Jones, Research Assistant and Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project January 28, 2009 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1093/generations-online
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu) - Free MIT Courses Online
Open University (open.ac.uk) - Free Open University Courses Online
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu) - Free Carnegie Mellon Courses Online
Tufts University (tufts.edu) - Free Tufts University Courses Online
Stanford (stanford.edu) - Stanford Courses on iTunes U
University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu) - Free UC Berkeley Courses Online
Utah State University (usu.edu) - Free Utah State University Courses Online
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org) - Free Kutztown University Courses Online
University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au) - Free USQ Courses Online
University of California, Irvine (uci.edu) - Free UC Irvine Courses Online
Northside Coffee Mornings www.nscm.posterous.com.
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Source: http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html

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