Network Literacy
Monday, July 27, 2009

#edst499k
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Who is this guy?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Winners
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Heroes
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Open Courses
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Who are you?
Thoughts & experience re:
on technology & learning?
What do you feel have been the
big changes wrt education?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Knowledge
Monday, July 27, 2009

A Connected Reality
Monday, July 27, 2009

A Connected Reality
Monday, July 27, 2009

Knowledge & Computing
Monday, July 27, 2009

Shifts in Education
Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning
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Power & Control
Monday, July 27, 2009

Power & Control
Monday, July 27, 2009

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?
Monday, July 27, 2009

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
Monday, July 27, 2009

Influences
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Available Tools
Monday, July 27, 2009

open content, access, Accessible Knowledge
publication, accreditation
how we view learning -
institutional & informal
Monday, July 27, 2009

Social Reading
Monday, July 27, 2009

Toward Web 3.0
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How do learners deal
with the reliability of
information? How do we
verify what is ‘true’?
How do we manage the
ever increasing flow of
information?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Social Networks
Monday, July 27, 2009

Social Networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
connections, collaboration,
community.
• networks formed around
shared interests & objects.
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Human Network
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Human Network
Monday, July 27, 2009

Netbooks - 1:1
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Microblogging
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Nearly Now
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As we approach a reality of reduced physical
boundaries & greater connectedness, what
are the professional & pedagogical challenges
faced by teachers? How do we overcome these?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Personal Learning Networks
Monday, July 27, 2009

The Way We Were
Monday, July 27, 2009

Rise of the PLN
Monday, July 27, 2009

My Blog, My Hub
Monday, July 27, 2009

Photo Sharing
Monday, July 27, 2009

Video Sharing
Monday, July 27, 2009

Spontaneous PD
Monday, July 27, 2009

Social Network Services
Monday, July 27, 2009

Slide Decks
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Copyleft
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How should schools deal with
content ownership, student
publishing, & sharing? Also,
what are the benefits and/or
drawbacks of sharing &
openness in schools?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Media Literacy
Monday, July 27, 2009

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.
Monday, July 27, 2009

Offensive Content
Monday, July 27, 2009

Offensive Content
Monday, July 27, 2009

Offensive Content
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy
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Critical Thinking
Monday, July 27, 2009

Critical Thinking
Monday, July 27, 2009

Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking
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Cyberbullying
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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.
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Spread of Media
Monday, July 27, 2009

Spread of Media
Monday, July 27, 2009

Spread of Media
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Spread of Media
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Viral Videos
Monday, July 27, 2009

Spread of Choice
Control & Media
Monday, July 27, 2009

Sociality
Monday, July 27, 2009

Disruptive Forms
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Disruptive Forms
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Surveillance Society
Monday, July 27, 2009

Transmedia
Monday, July 27, 2009

Transmedia
Monday, July 27, 2009

What are strategies for
understanding new &
emerging media? How do
we become participants?
How do we encourage and
assess new forms of
creativity in our
classroom?
Monday, July 27, 2009

In Practice
Monday, July 27, 2009

Grade One - Expert Visits
Monday, July 27, 2009

Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Monday, July 27, 2009

Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Monday, July 27, 2009

Grade Seven/Eight - Classroom Studio
Monday, July 27, 2009

High School Math - Scribe Posts
Monday, July 27, 2009

University History - Twitter
Monday, July 27, 2009

Virtual Office Hours
Monday, July 27, 2009

New Roles for Educators
Monday, July 27, 2009

What do you
want to learn?
Monday, July 27, 2009

Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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Monday, July 27, 2009