Socializing Teaching And Learning

Socializing Teaching and Learning Presented to: Canadian Network for Innovation in Education George Siemens June 18, 2008 Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies

Technology

Is not neutral

And it’s not “only a tool”

Cognition and mind as social phenomenon:
- Mind/self created through social participation
- Practices/tools/language are social constructions
- Power fashions practices/tools
Garrison, 1995, p. 737

“ designed, accessed, interpreted, and used to further purposes that embody social values”
Bruce & Hogan, 1998

“ every technology has a philosophy which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in what it makes us do with our bodies, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards”
Postman, 1998

Technology as Faustian bargain
What are we getting?
What are we giving?

Consider...

Technology is
an ideology
a carrier of affordances
a disrupter
an enabler
a reflector of mindsets/world views
a shaper of new realities

“ What we have here is a transition from a stable, settled world of knowledge produced by authority/authors, to a world of instability, flux, of knowledge produced by the individual...”
Institute of Education, London, 2007

“ by creating space and place, we create ourselves”
Cannatella, 2007, p. 632

Co-evolution of individual and related network
Lazer, 2000

Fifth estate: reshaping “communicative powers of individuals and groups”
W. H. Dutton, Oxford, 2007

Complexification of knowledge reduces individual capacity to apprehend its unity

“ The major responsibility of education is to arm every single person for the vital combat of lucidity”
...New problem: access to info, skills to organize info
Morin, p 12, 13, 1999

Participatory sensemaking
De Jaegher, Di Paolo, 2007

New media adds new opportunities for connections/relations, enacting latent ties
Haythornthwaite, 2002

Social activity system...heedful interrelating
Weick & Roberts, 1993

“ Gossip, people-curiosity, and small talk...are in essence the human version of social grooming”
Zufekci, 2008

Shall we chat?

What are the implications for teaching/learning?

Learning is...
Contextual
Situational
Tool-mediated
Social
Networked
Carries DNA of previous ideologies

Individual knowledge possible due to social practices of engagement
Tsoukas, 1996

What do different technologies do?

Connect

1. Access

2. Presence

3. Expression

4. Creation

5. Interaction/co-creation

6. Aggregate our fragmentation

...and while we’re here..

Open Online Course: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge
(Sept, 08)
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/

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

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Socializing Teaching And Learning

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