Open & Collaborative Learning

Open & Collaborative Learning How Social Networks Are Transforming Education Dr. Alec Couros March 2010 For Saskatoon Cyberschool

changes

context

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

connected reality

quick stats (2009) • 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users • 234 million websites • 1.73 billion Internet users • 126 millions blogs • 350 million Facebook users • 4 billion images on Flickr • 1 billion Youtube videos served daily. Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

David Wiley Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open

David Wiley Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open

danah boyd Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to: •Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability. •Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private @zephoria spaces

Michael Wesch • Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” • Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to @mwesch “tremendously deep communities”.

enablers (for connected learning)

“A key to transformation F/OSS is for the teaching profession to establish Movement innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do, collective sharing.” ~ ~Hargreaves

Free Tools

Open Content “describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or individual. (wikipedia)

Open Access “The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net) open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events

Ubiquity

Personal Learning Networks

that are enhanced by ...

Real-time search

Real-time collaboration

Real-time streaming ps22chorus.blogspot.com

that help to create ...

Disruptive media

Social Learning

Disruptive Education

practice

connecting educators

Grade 1 - Expert Visits @kathycassidy

Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube ps22chorus.blogspot.com

Grade 6 - Global Connections @zbpipe

Highschool - Youtube Channel @amhwrites

HigherEd - Open Courses eci831.wikispaces.com

Professional Identities

PD Gone Wild

Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open

why this matters?

@willrich45

this is not going away social media provides engagement/motivation incredible possibilities for teaching and learning ethical responsibility of schools good teaching is shared & transparent

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

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Open & Collaborative Learning

by Alec Couros on Mar 21, 2010

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