Power of Networks

The Power of NetworksAnd Why It Matters to Education Dr. Alec Couros Saskatchewan IT Summit 2012 Saskatoon, SK May 7, 2012

#itsummit12

Who Am I?

The Blur

memories of media past

Gaming

Multi-Player

Piracy

Adaptation

Personalization

Troubleshooting

Mobile

Edtech

Web 1.0

changes in media

“55. New Kids have always been known as NKOTB. “1. There has always been an Internet ramp on the Information Highway” “57. They’ve often broken up with signiﬁcant others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.”

mobile

Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality

content

“60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.” “Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.”“Over 800 million unique users visit Youtube every month.” “More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”

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)

“Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water... There’s no competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” (2012)@drtonywagner

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

“... 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.”

from ...

to ...

literacy

info/media literacy (digital) identity network literacy

info/media literacy

memes“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) identity

“The average digital birth of children happens at about 6 months.” “In Canada, US, UK, France Italy, Germany & Spain ... 81% of children under the age of two have some kind of digital proﬁle or footprint.”

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

network literacy

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

Service Data

Crowdsourcing

@dlnorman

@giuliaforsythe

@noiseprofessor @noiseprofessor

@noiseprofessor

@timlauer

social learning

21st Century Learning Networks

#skteachers

#edchat

#comments4kids

Techno-Social Affordances• How does ‘digital’ (instant, shareable, replicable, ﬁndable, remixable, networked, open) reshape teaching & learning?• What does it mean to be connected (locally, globally)?• Who are my teachers? Who are my students?

learning in the open

“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.”

Matt KirkNick

Thinning WallsPrivate PublicClosed Open

how are you making learning visible?

how are you contributing to the learning of others?

conclusion

“The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in which people and institutions are connected. It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surﬁng life through diffuse, variegated@barrywellman social networks.” (2002)

ﬁxed to place ﬁxed to person

“The person hasbecome the portal.” Wellman (2002)

how do we get there when ...

What We Need Now• Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD.• Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both through infrastructure & mindset.• Plan, develop & support provincial digital ﬂuency strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing.• Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities through this transition.

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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