Open
Connected
Social
Pedagogy for the Connected Age

Fill in the Blanks (i)
• “[This Device] appealed at once to the
eye and to the ear, thus naturally
forming the habit of attention, which
is so difficult to form by the study of
books. Whenever the pupil will not
fully understand [it] will have the
opportunity of enlarging and making
more intelligible.”

Fill in the Blanks (ii)
• “[These instruments are] not
uncommon, but are little resorted to by
the teacher.”
• “The teacher almost knows as little how
to use [it] as his pupils.”
What are they talking about?

Educator Quotes from the 1840’s
about the Chalkboard

Fill in the Blanks (iii)
• “... the existing system is utterly
inefficient. The teacher ... may pour it in
the ear, or extract it from the printed
page ... but unless he teaches through
the eye, no satisfactory instruction can
be conveyed.”

Sir David Brewer (1856) on the
Magic Lantern

Fill in the Blanks (iv)
• “[It] is going to make school so
attractive that a big army of swords
and guns couldn’t keep boys and girls
out of it.”
• “Mix [it] with education and you’ll have
something that makes kids want to go
to school. You’ll have to lick’em to keep
‘em away.”

Edison (1911) on Moving Pictures

open
experiential democratic
media
multiliteracies
collaborative
web 2.0
constructivist
authentic
empowering buzzwords connected
school 2.0 new media
engagement
transparent digital
creators vs. digital literacy simulations
consumers
21st century learning

Movement
- not technology but epistemology
• Objectivism
• Cognitivism Individuals
• Constructivism
• Collective constructionism Groups
- Social learning
(Schwier)

Shifts In ET
(Schwier)

Shifts In ET
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social Learning
(Schwier)

Shifts In ET
Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social Learning
(Schwier)

Connectivism
Link

“Typical” Teacher Network

The Networked Teacher

Network in Action (link)

Tools of the Social Web

Ed. Blogs
Text

Microblogs

Wikis

Google Tools

Photosharing

Social Bookmarking

Podcasting

Video Sharing

Implications

Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom

Life ‘Round Here

Flat Classroom Project

EC&I 831
Soundbite

Edtech Talk

Emerging Technologies
• Grassroots Media
• Collaborative Webs
• Mobile Broadband
• Data Mashups
• Collective Intelligence
• Semantic Web
• Social Operating Systems

I never knew ...

Overload
Faced with information overload, we have no
alternative but pattern recognition.
(McLuhan, 1969)

Networked Proximity
... networked proximity facilitates new kinds
of spatially unbound community, and that
these emerging forms of sociality are equally
or more meaningful than the older ones.
Community is thus “liberated,” unhinged from
space, and can be maintained regardless of
distance. (Mejias, 2007)

Resources
http://couros.wikispaces.com (wiki)
http://commoncraft.com/show (videos)
http://edtechtalk.com (online sessions)
http://school20.ning.com (community)
http://www.twitter.com (the network)
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