Leading Learning

Slide 1: On Becoming: The cognitive and social impact of technology George Siemens Leading Learning Toronto, Ontario May 5, 2008 Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies

Slide 2: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 3: Technology allows us to

Slide 4: think

Slide 5: know

Slide 6: be intelligent

Slide 7: to “do” cognition

Slide 8: together

Slide 9: Technology allows us to

Slide 10: feel

Slide 11: act

Slide 12: share

Slide 13: be

Slide 14: together

Slide 15: But...

Slide 16: Carriers of patterns of previous reasoning Roy Pea

Slide 17: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 18: Haxby, Hoffman, & Goggini (2000)

Slide 19: Loss of control

Slide 20: Cognitive load

Slide 21: Multi-perspective

Slide 22: Distributed

Slide 23: Collective

Slide 24: Connective

Slide 25: The promise? How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Slide 26: The promise?

Slide 27: The outcome 4000 registered “a few dozen” contributed Finally, professional writers hired

Slide 28: Digital Maoism? The Wikipedia is far from being the only online fetish site for foolish collectivism. There's a frantic race taking place online to become the most "Meta" site, to be the highest level aggregator, subsuming the identity of all other sites.

Slide 29: “Diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality” Scott Page

Slide 31: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 32: Identity

Slide 33: Belonging

Slide 34: Connectedness

Slide 35: Relational

Slide 36: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 43: Our opportunities for distributed cognition, to learn, interact, and share far exceeds the design of education

Slide 44: Our ability to act, influence, and change far exceeds our ability to understand

Slide 45: Same networks of information also carry misinformation

Slide 46: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 47: Technology-mediated learning No difference ...but tools carry different patterns of previous reasoning

Slide 48: Technology as extension

Slide 49: or

Slide 50: Technology as humanity

Slide 52: Return to humanity?

Slide 53: Rise of techno-humanity? http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

Slide 54: Privacy & Security

Slide 55: Baja Beach Club

Slide 56: 2. What does technology do? 3. Cognition 4. Socialization 5. What can we do together? 6. On becoming human...or techno-human 7. Finding balance

Slide 57: What is the role of education?

Slide 58: Stakeholders

Slide 59: Learner Educator Institution Society Organizations

Slide 60: Values to preserve Deep understanding Transformative impact of learning Being human Students as products of— and participants in— traditions of art, ideas, and values (Harvard)

Slide 61: To embrace Exploration/experimentation Broad spectrum of learning Reality of thin classroom walls Collaboration and sharing as educators, learners

Slide 62: Websites and Newsletters www.elearnspace.org www.knowingknowledge.com www.connectivism.ca http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/ gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org