Only connect Stephen “trib” Collins
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“Only connect! That was the whole of
her sermon. Only connect the prose
and the passion and both will be
exalted, and human love will be seen
at its height. Live in fragments no
longer.”
E.M. Forster, Howard’s End

BIG

Arguably
bigger
than this

“Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets
hyperempowerment.”
Mark Pesce, Hyperpolitics American Style
http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=61

People power

Shifting divide

One
weekend’s
worth of ads

Participate, engage, co-learn

Hyperdisconnected

Why is this still the model
for the classroom?

Why do we make them
disconnect?

Class is like this

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GY0oZ3kXRYq_LGNW1BcjbA
“The entire curriculum is
currently geared to pens,
paper, books, etc. The
computer is bling.”
http://twitter.com/mpesce/status/4166138865

A vision of students today
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119

Content = commodity

Power shift

Here’s where the power is

Integrate technology vs.
adding technology
Connected pedagogy vs.
teaching with the Internet

Integrated

We have no idea

Knowing facts
approaching
irrelevancy as time
to find
approaches zero

Wired to connect

“My contention is that creativity
now is as important in education
as literacy, and we should treat
it with the same status… we're
now running national education
systems where mistakes are the
worst thing you can make. And
the result is that we are
educating people out of their
creative capacities.”
Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/3569194255/

Engagement
Relevancy
Creativity
Extension
Mistakes

Explore the "what else"

Connected classroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

21st Century
skills

http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html
“The progression of today's
college student is to jettison every
interest except one. And within
that one, to continually narrow the
focus. Learning more and more
about less and less. This, despite
the evidence all around us of the
interconnectedness of things.”
Liz Coleman, TED 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billhr/3266181698/

Contextualise

I want school to be like this

Why isn’t hyperconnectedness
the heart of education?

Universal digital literacy

Wayfinding

What else?

Bigger picture

Not just me. Not even just us.

Hannah

Step up

Imagine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnight_trucker/376653652/

Thank you

Like the cool pictures?
iStockphoto.com, Picasa and Flickr
And the awesome videos?
A Vision of Students Today
from KSU Digital Ethnography
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119
Twitter in the classroom
from University of Minnesota
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

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Contact me
Stephen “trib” Collins
trib@acidlabs.org
@trib
+61 410 680722
Canberra, Australia
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