Canadian School of Public Service

The role of new media in learning and vocational education George Siemens March 31, 2011 Ottawa, Canada SPSC-EFPC

Social media?

New media is not that new

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48586092/KPCB-Top-10-Mobile-Trends

Blurring the physical and virtual worlds (blame mobile devices)

Social/new media platforms produce fewer winners
Facebook integrates all
Amazon
Google
The winners become the platforms

More is different, but not new 1550-1750 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi64.1.html

The Structure of Information

Eppler & Mengis, 2004

http://www.disconnectere.com/

What has new media really done?
Speed: development, access, flow
Scale: how many people can talk to each other
New connections: social & information
Relationships: (power & control)

Corona virus: Global, networked Knowledge Growth

What’s now possible
Mashups
Reduction of limitations of physical space
(Barry Wellman: Glocalization)
Participation & contribution
Biggest impact: making things explicit

Will what this did for the development of logic…

Will social, mobile, local media do for development of intention/emotion?

Each new node amplifies the value of the entire network, but produces lock-in

Canadian Federal Election, 2011

The real impact of social media is not what it allows us to do. Instead it’s the insight it gives us into ourselves as individuals and groups/communities/networks.

What role does new media play in learning?
Autonomy
Alters who sets the pace and tone
Who has access
Power & control
Global learning

Organizations use information to do things… how information flows and the external context in which it is applied determines the media needed

Participate in the prominent channels of discourse that define an era

Bounded spaces – need for identity creation and exploration

The Landing

All of these produce data trails – which is the real point

Black box  Glass box

http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html

https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar
(June 20-24, 2011)
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