The document discusses how networks and connectivity are reshaping education. It notes that more video is uploaded to YouTube every month than the major US television networks created in 60 years. Knowledge is now freely available online like air or water. While age is not a determining factor, access and opportunities create a digital divide. Network literacy including understanding how networks work is an important 21st century skill. Learning is becoming more open and social through networks, with learners gaining knowledge from many online sources rather than just educators. The paradigm is shifting from isolated learning to learning through diverse social networks.
22. โ55. New Kids have always
been known as NKOTB.
โ1. There has always been an Internet
ramp on the Information Highwayโ
โ57. Theyโve often broken up with signi๏ฌcant
others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.โ
36. โ60 hours of video are uploaded every
minute, or one hour of video is
uploaded to Youtube every second.โ
โOver 4 billion videos are viewed a day.โ
โOver 800 million unique users visit
Youtube every month.โ
โMore video is uploaded to YouTube in
one month that the 3 major US networks
created in 60 years.โ
37. Free/Open Content
โdescribes 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, ๏ฌrm, or
individual.โ (Wikipedia)
38.
39. โToday knowledge is free.
Itโs like air, itโs like water...
Thereโs no competitive
advantage in knowing
more than the person next
to you. The world doesnโt
care what you know. What
the world cares about is
what you can do with what
you know.โ (2012)
@drtonywagner
41. โ... age is not a determining factor in
studentsโ digital lives; rather, their familiarity
and experience using ICTs is more relevant.โ
โ... the notion of โdigital nativesโ 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.โ
53. memes
โThe gene has itโs 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 virusโ
Lowenstein, 1999
56. โ...for allย the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western
governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get
their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.โ
Zack Whitaker
67. โThe average digital birth of children
happens at about 6 months.โ
โIn Canada, US, UK, France Italy,
Germany & Spain ... 81% of children
under the age of two have some kind
of digital pro๏ฌle or footprint.โ
108. Techno-Social Affordances
โข How does โdigitalโ (instant, shareable,
replicable, ๏ฌndable, remixable, networked,
open) reshape teaching & learning?
โข What does it mean to be connected (locally,
globally)?
โข Who are my teachers? Who are my
students?
111. โTo answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my โmainโ teacher.โ
โ10 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 โexclusiveโ dance styles.โ
122. โThe 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
โlittle boxesโ to sur๏ฌng life
through diffuse, variegated
@barrywellman social networks.โ (2002)
129. What We Need Now
โข Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD.
โข Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both
through infrastructure & mindset.
โข Plan, develop & support provincial digital ๏ฌuency
strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing.
โข Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities
through this transition.
130.
131. Donโt limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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