Charlie Bit My Finger and Why it Really, Really Matters

Charlie Bit My Finger And Why It Really, Really Matters Alec Couros University of Alberta and Technology Fair Dean Shareski March 25, 2010

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Alec Couros Dean Shareski @courosa @shareskicouros@gmail.com shareski@gmail.com couros.ca shareski.ca

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“The only problem with Wikipedia is that itonly works in practice. In theory it wouldnever work” Miikos Ryokas

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Athletic Stages

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Academic stages?

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New Roles

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My blog reminds me that Im boneheaded and tin-eared.My blog represents me not as an edited professionalvoice, but as a human being struggling toexpress ideas, thoughts, reactions, dreams, andgeneral b.s. via a means thatuncompromisingly allows for theimmediate feedback of strangers andfellow wanderers. Shelley Blake-Pollock @teachpaperless

blogging was the cheapest, most risk-Butfree investment I could have made ofmy personal time into my job. You start by writingdown things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And thenyou start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart, Periods of stagnancyand dialoging over them with strangers.in your blogging start to correspond toperiods of stagnancy in your teaching. Youstart to muse on your job when you’re stuck in trafﬁc, in line for groceries, that sort That transformation has beenof thing.nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspotblog. Dan Meyer @ddmeyer

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Media Competency

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Doing It Well

Not So Well Cisco just offered mea job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fattypaycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work

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Networks of Trust

Beautiful Collaboration

Who Beneﬁts?

Social Glue

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The Power of the Pictograph

Ten years ago, not one student in ahundred, nay, one in a thousand, could haveproduced videos like this. Its a whole newskill, a vital and important skill, and oneutterly necessary not simply from the perspective ofcreating but also of comprehending videocommunication today. Stephen Downes @downes

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Consumption CreationReading Writing Listening Speaking Viewing Representing

“With a digital projector waiting back in myclassroom, I cant help looking forinteresting, relevant images to put in front ofmy class. A digital projector shrinks the time-gap between my learning moment andtheirs. A digital projector has effectively buriedthe difference between What FascinatesMe and What I Teach.” Dan Meyer Dan Meyer @ddmeyer

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Big Finish

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