Rethinking Teaching & Learning in a Networked Reality

Rethinking Teaching & Learning in a Networked Reality Dr. Alec Couros January 2010 ECMP 355

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“Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reﬂect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and services responsibilities - only if scholars choose to build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)

social networks & media

Social Networks • redeﬁne communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography. • enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community. • networks form around shared interests & objects.

A Connected Reality

Old World Networks

Mario Couros

Mediated Reality

Twitter in 60 Seconds

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.

David Wiley (Brigham Young University) Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open

David Wiley (Brigham Young University) Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open

The Way We Were

Rise of the PLN

easy trust

humankind is mostly good

View on Society?

“Some of the comments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.” @leverus (Lev Grossman)

The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (TED Talk) @zittrain • Technical infrastructure of the web. • Wikipedia’s content & form • ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through Internet-facilitated kindness, collaboration, & sharing.

The Machine is (Changing) Us (Personal Democracy Forum) • 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 “tremendously deep communities”. @mwesch

Heroes for our Mediated Culture

educators and trust

via @mcleod

via @shareski

i can haz internetz

learners and trust

Living & Learning with Social Media (Penn State address) 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, @zephoria collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces

“Kyle Doyle is not going to work today, f*** it, I’m still trashed SICKIE WOO.” “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

Bassman_Sean (Scotland) • Scottish teen who participates in my open, online grad course. • Creative, motivated, independent, connected, respectful, cognizant and intentional in managing his digital identity. @bassman_sean

Sociality

Disruptive Forms

in practice

Grade One - Expert Visits @kathycassidy

Grade Five - Choir on Youtube

Grade Six - Global Connections @zbpipe

Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding @glassbeed

Beaver Country Day School - mashUp

EC&I 831 -Non-Credit

pay attention to ...

Access

Ubiquity

Real Time Web

RT Search

RT Collaboration

RT Streaming

Social Reading

Trusted Groups

New Roles for Educators

Professional Identities

Professional Development Gone Wild!

Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open

The Big Ideas • The future of learning is open, connected, & social. • Learning networks redeﬁne how knowledge is created, distributed & controlled. • Meaningful learning can be fostered through informal learning networks.

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

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Rethinking Teaching & Learning in a Networked Reality

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