Open Scholarship & Connected Learning

Open Scholarship & Connected LearningPELeCONApril 19, 2012Plymouth UKDr. Alec Couros

#pelc12

Who Am I?

The Blur

Matt KirkNick

open teaching

non-credit students

Thinning WallsPrivate PublicClosed Open

early inspirations

knowledge• 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?

human thought/ideas human language source codehigh-level language (e.g. C++, Java, PERL) low-level language (assembly language) code irretrievable machine code (binary)

“Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even ﬁve years ago that a world-class operating system couldcoalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected by only tenuous strands of the Internet.” (Raymond, 1997)

“A key to transformation is for the teaching profession to establishinnovation networks that capturethe spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do, the collective sharing.” (Hargreaves, 2003)

21st Century Learning Networks

power, control & fear as key barriers

Free/Open Content “describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, notexclusively by a closed organization, ﬁrm, or individual.” (Wikipedia)

From NAGPS (2011) via h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut

shifts in edtech Group growth Individual growthObjectivism Cognitivism Constructivism(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning

@jonmott

literacies

Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)Howard Rheingold

Politicshttp://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

Services

Reputation

Crowdsourcing

“I’m New” by Kutiman

Kindness in Networks

God bless you and your familythrough this difﬁcult time.

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minor lighting, a 6 x 4 crop for printing in standard size & removed some of the background. well done fellow redditors !!!!

Fixed thechair

OK black background gone. Sorry it took so long, hadto start over. Thanks again to wahoorob for doing thehard part.

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myth of the digital native

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

Children and young people are described as ‘the collaboration generation’, eager to work togethertowards common goals, share content and draw upon“the power of mass collaboration”. This combination of individualisation and collaboration is often presented as giving young people a propensity to question, challenge and critique. These are individuals who “typically can’t imagine a life where citizens didn’t have the tools to constantly think critically, exchange views, challenge, authenticate, verify, or debunk. The Digital Native - Myth & Reality, Selwyn (2009)

Are We To Believe This?

Or This?

“... age is not a determining factor instudents’ digital lives; rather, their familiarityand experience using ICTs is more relevant.” “... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate: those with such attributes are effectively a digital elite. Instead of a new net generation growing up to replace an older analogue generation, there is a deepening digital divide ... characterized not by age but by access and opportunity.”

information literacy

“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus” Lowenstein, 1999

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

“...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Westerngovernments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot gettheir heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one is, someone is watching and recording.” Zack Whitaker

what does it mean when you like something?

digital ﬂuency

“Technological fluency means much more than the ability to use technological tools;that would be equivalent to understanding a few common phrases in a language. To become truly fluent in a language (like English or French), one must be able toarticulate a complex idea or tell an engaging story -- that is, to be able to make things of significance with these tools. ” The Computer Clubhouse: Technology Fluency in the Inner City, Resnick, Rusk, & Cooke (1998)

The Difference Between Digital Literacy & Digital Fluency, C. Briggs (2011)

digital identity

Best Job in the World

On Digital Video • “Ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending videoStephen Downes communication today.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/

social learning

“To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I consider it my ‘main’ teacher.” “10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping (the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”

closing thoughts

open scholarship

making learning visible

Live Radio From the Classroom

how are you making learning visible?

how are you contributing to the learning of others?

Don’t limit a child to yourown learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa

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