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    1. Rethinking teaching: Networks and social connections George Siemens May 1, 2008 Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    2. Hype?
    3. Web 2.0 Millenials Open Education Resources Blogs Wikis Second Life Virtual Worlds Twitter Wikipedia YouTube uStream Podcasts flickr Skype Diigo Blogger Google Docs LMS Learning 2.0
    4. Distributed learning Learner-centered Authentic Teaching Accountability Standards Online learning Hybrid learning Blended learning Globalization Digital literacy Digital divide
    5. Reality?
    6. Explosion
    7. Information
    8.  
    9. An exabyte? How Big?
      • Five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress book collections.
      • UC Berkeley
      • In 2007 the digital universe equalled 281bn gigabytes of data, or about 45gb for every person on Earth
      • International Data Corporation
      • It took two centuries to fill the shelves of the Library of Congress with more than 57 million manuscripts, 29 million books and periodicals, 12 million photographs, and more. Now, the world generates an equivalent amount of digital information nearly 100 times each day.
      • Internet Innovation Alliance
    10. Increased: Complexity and Access
      • Time: 1990-2001
      • Cost?: $3 Billion
      • Map your DNA
      • Cost?: $1000
      • “ You can discover your origins, learn what the latest genetic findings may mean for you, and connect genetically with friends, family, and others across the globe.”
    11. Getting to 25%
      • Electricity =46 years
      • Telephones =35 years
      • Televisions =26 years
      • Broadband=6 years
      • McKinsey
      • IP traffic will nearly double every two years through 2011. Total IP traffic will nearly quintuple in the five-year period from 2006-2011.
      • Cisco’s “The Exabyte Era” 2007
      • Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010
      • AT & T
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    12. Social theories of learning
    13. Vygotsky Socio-cultural
    14. Leontiev Action has not meaning in itself but in relation to others
      • “ The information required by individuals for functioning in society and for the survival of society itself is not carried in our biotic genes but in our societal institutions”
      • Tolman
    15. Bandura
      • “ Socially interdependent effort”
      • Triad: Cognitive, biological, environmental
    16. Relationship of
      • Activity
      • Individual
      • Society
      • Tools
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    17. The tool is the thing...
    18. Gibson: affordances “Action possibilities”
    19. Extending ourselves: Technological advances
    20.  
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    21. Let’s get fragmented
    22. Pieces
    23. Distribution
    24. Cognition
    25. Sensemaking
      • All meanings are created in the public domain...in collective situations and actions
      • Wittgenstein (Toulmin)
    26. Knowledge
    27. Creation
    28. Learning
    29. Duality of fragmentation
      • Ease of customization, adaptation, individualization
      • Pressure of building realities outside of solid frameworks
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    30. Connectivism
    31. What do we mean when we say “Network Learning”?
      • 1. Technical infrastructure
      • 2. Network structure
      • 3. Distributed cognition, knowledge, and learning
      • 4. Network skills
      • 5. Systemic views of networked learning, knowledge, and education
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    32. Who does what?
      • Who speaks? How?
      • Who has control?
    33. Information is participation
    34.  
    35. Dilbert
    36. Human face to murder
      • Jill Leovy: Homicide Report
      • http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/homicidereport/
    37. History Commons
      • http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
    38. Open Educational Resources
      • What are we really facing?
      • Social views of learning
      • Tools?
      • Distributed. Everything.
      • Learning networks
      • Control
      • And into the abyss of chaos we shall teach
    39. Our reality
      • Tremendous growth of information and complexity
      • Our social nature
      • Tools to extend ourselves
      • Networks to filter, make sense, think, learn
      • Shifting control: Thinning class walls
    40. On becoming...
    41. Different teachers
    42. Not only domain-specific knowledge
    43. But connections
    44.  
    45. And new literacies
    46. Literate/competent with networks
    47. Literate with information
      • Finding
      • Evaluating
      • Filtering
      • Sharing
      • Re-creating
      • Collaborating
    48. Literate with identity
    49. Literate with process/tools
      • Media
      • Context
      • Tool selection
      • Process selection
    50. From knowing something to connecting to something
    51. 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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