This document discusses various aspects of networked literacies. It covers topics such as blogging, social networking, open teaching, crowdsourcing content, real-time collaboration, issues with inappropriate content and verifiability online. It also discusses concepts like new media texts, the abundance of information, multimodal expression, complex authorship, expanding audiences, and the importance of social connections and digital reputation. Overall, the document examines how networks and new media are changing literacy and the skills needed to navigate online spaces.

1. Toward Networked Literacies
Literacy GAINS Summer Camp
August 2010
Parry Sound Ontario
Dr. Alec Couros

2. me

4. my blog, my hub

5. microblogging

6. photosharing

7. videosharing

8. social networking services

9. content sharing

10. open teaching

11. - our point of perspective as a learner, where our
knowledge & experience is situated (to reveal
what I am blind to or able to see).
- our point of intersection through multiple
why begin contexts, world views, personal & professional
relationships.
at “me”?
(short version) - our point of privilege and access to knowledge
& experience.
- our point of power when forming, managing,
and maintaining relationships.
- our point of personalization as learning &
memory are tied to emotion (my attempt to
build my rapport and connection with you).

12. “People donʼt buy what you do,
they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)

13. shift

14. “Tell me ... what it is I am
educating and what sort of world
we live in, and I will tell you what I
am aiming at.”
(Garforth, 1962)

16. Knowledge

17. Questions
• 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?

21. Free/Open Content
“describes 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, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)

23. Media

25. connected reality

29. Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

30. media stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email
users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

32. Networks

33. “Understanding how networks
work is one of the most important
literacies of the 21st century.”
(Rheingold, 2010)

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

35. crowd sourcing content

36. real time collaboration

39. issues

40. Inappropriate Content

41. http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy

42. “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)

43. Verifiability

45. Identity

49. “You are not Facebookʼs
customer. you are the product
that they sell to real customers -
advertisers. Forget this at your
peril.”
(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)

50. Citizenship

52. 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

53. strategies/practice

54. “...the set of abilities and skills where
aural, visual, & digital overlap. These
include the ability to understand the
power of images & sounds, to recognize
& use that power, to manipulate &
transform them pervasively, & to easily
adapt to new forms.”
(New Media Consortium, 2005, on ʻnew literaciesʼ)

55. - new media are texts
- information is abundant
- surge of multimodal/multimedia expression
- authorship increasingly complex
assumptions - social contexts collapsing
(short version)
- potential audience expanding
- social connections important
- technology tends to be deterministic
- digital reputation management vital to citizenry
- wayfinding, sensemaking, curation,
participation, production vital to literacy

56. danah boyd
pay attention to ...
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences,
collapsed contexts, blurring of
public & private spaces @zephoria

57. coding competence
(the ability to decode texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

61. semantic competence
(the ability to make meaning)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

67. pragmatic competence
(functional literacy)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

69. Professional Identities

73. http://mediagirl.org/node/1535

74. critical competence
(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

75. “Education ... has produced a
vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is
worth reading, an easy prey to
sensations and cheap appeals.”
(Trevelyan, 1942)

81. human literacies

82. “Literacies nourish each other.
One literacy helps another to
grow. Literacies contain each
other and require each other.”
(Sheridan, 2000)

83. Michael Wesch
• As we “move toward an
environment of instant & infinite
information ... we need to move
from bring simple knowledgeable to
knowledge-able.”
• Youtube & other social media
mitigate “connection without
constraint”. In many cases this
@mwesch leaves to “tremendously deep
communities”.

84. “Heroes for our Mediated Culture”

90. “... the practice of freedom, the
means by which men & women
deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation
of their world”
(Freire, 1970)

91. web: couros.ca
twitter: courosa
google: couros
couros@gmail.com