Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning

Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning Dr. Alec Couros 2009 Summer Faculty Institute at the University of Delaware June 5, 2009

@courosa

Who is this guy?

Open Courses

Knowledge

Knowledge & Computing

Shifts in Edtech Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism (Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning

Key Questions • 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?

Forms of Openness open education free software open source software open educational resources open content open access publication open access courses open teaching open accreditation

Inﬂuences

Available Tools

open content, access, Accessible Knowledge publication, accreditation how we view learning - institutional & informal

Social Reading

Toward Web 3.0

Social Networks

Social Networks • redeﬁne communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography. • enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community. • networks formed around shared interests & objects.

Human Network

Netbooks - 1:1

Microblogging

Nearly Now

Personal Learning Networks

Daily Connections

My Blog, My Hub

Photo Sharing

Video Sharing

Musical Connections

Spontaneous PD

Social Network Services

Slide Decks

Copyleft

Media Literacy

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.

Each technology creates a new environment. The old environment becomes content for the new environment. The effects of media come from their form not their content.

Spread of Media

Viral Videos

Sociality

Disruptive Forms

Surveillance Society

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

Mindsets, Skills, Perspectives

lightbulb vs. ipod Understanding Media

Impact of Learning Environment

Small Tools, Loosely Joined

Open Invitations

Distributed Conversations

Sharing by Default

Expert Visits

Support Private Public Closed Open

Professional Learning

New Roles for Educators

Community asIdentities Digital Curriculum

Outreach

sustained community Beneﬁts transformative experiences gained technical skills media literacies move toward openness empathy toward new literacies greater community

“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.”

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore web: couros.ca twitter: courosa google: couros alec.couros@uregina.ca

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