Social Software: Learning In Networks

Social software: learning and socializing in networks
José Mota
Laboratório de Educação a Distância [LEaD]
Universidade Aberta
Edenopenclassroom Porto 2009

WhatI’going to talkabout
Whathaschangedinthewayswesocializeandlearn?
Whyissocial software important?
Whyshouldschoolbepartofthis?
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Forms of Socialization
Forms of socialization have been changing due to technology.
Little Boxes to
Glocalizationto
Networked Individualism
(BarryWellman, 2001)
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Little Boxes
Little Boxes
densely-knit, linking people door-to-door (neighborhood);
encapsulation in homogeneous groups;
hierarchical
structured
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Glocalization
Glocalization
sparsely knit but with clusters;
both local and global;
otherneighborhoods, cities, placesintheworld;
place-to-place connectivity.
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NetworkedIndividualism
Networked Individualism
sparsely-knit;
linking individuals with little regard to space;
person-to-person.
“The person has become the portal” (Barry Wellman, 2001)
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Educational Technology
Education
Beyond the acquisition of knowledge and information - resources and skills for lifelong learning
Technology
resources and communities for learning, collaborating and building knowledge.
EducationalTechnology
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How we learn today
reading a book or browsing the Web
asking a friend or an expert
experimenting and drawing conclusions
gathering a group to achieve something
observing others
exploring new territories
talking to other people
writing and making diagrams, drawings, movies, music, multimedia
inventing new things and ideas
comparing different ideas and experiences
asking why? how? In what other way?
(Jay Lemke, 2002)
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Dialogue & Interaction
Involvement with other people, through
dialogue
interaction with the ways in which they translated their thoughts and perspectives into diverse media.
From this point of view, learning is a rich, diversified process of encounters and experiences
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Social software
Tools that support and facilitate communication and interaction in a social context
Blogs
Wikis
Twitter
Discussionforums
Social bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)
RSS aggregators (Google Reader, Bloglines)
Media sharing (Youtube, Flikr, Slideshare)
Virtual worlds (SecondLife)
“Software that supports group interaction” (Clay Shirky, 2003)
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Social and cultural changes
Digital technologies new approaches to learning and social interaction
Creativity – consumers becoming producers (prosumers)
Attention – Continuous partial attention; always on connectivity (Linda Stone, 2005)
Identity – consumption and production of digital media; real identity virtual identity
(Martin Owen et al., 2006)
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C-Learning: learning with others
From e-learning to c-learning
Community
Communicative
Collaborative
Collaborative
Learning is based on a social process
Image source: Alec Couros (2006)
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Technologies and learning
Old methods with new tools
True motivation is to question the pedagogical principles underlying the educational models
Evolution from learning about to learning to be
Learning as (endless) becoming (UlisesMejias, 2005).
Impactof social software onPedagogy
desire to connect to the world as a whole, not just the social parts online
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Bridging online & offline experience
False dichotomy between physical and virtual world (cyberspace)
Many connections and ties often operate in both dimensions
We communicate using the online or offline medium that is available and most adequate at the moment
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School and digital literacy
open up; be connected
more permeable to the flow of interactions
become an important part of the global discourse
thoughtful planning
strong awareness of privacy and security of students
training of teachers and IT staff
involvement of school agents, parents and community
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