1. Network Education:
Some Thinking Tools
Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island
August 2014

2. ME -------à

3. 1 : 1
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4. North America is jealous

5. But also terrified

6. Pedagogy
^
Technology
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7. NETWORK EDUCATION
• Information Abundance: context
• New Ethos: pedagogical approach
• Literacies: goal(s)

8. Context

9. What is education for?

10. We cannot talk about education
without talking about literacies

11. Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to
Knowledge

12. Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of
Knowledge

13. Literacies, 2014 BCE = Management &
Synthesis of Knowledge

15. Information Abundance
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16. Structure of Abundance = Networks

19. To network education
is to model the literacies for
making sense &
contributing knowledge
within information abundance.

20. …but abundance can become overload.
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21. “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.”
- Clay Shirky, 2008
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FINE THEN.

22. Traditional Media Literacy Filters =
Judgment, Analysis, Critical Thinking
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23. But those are no longer sufficient.
Not all media information is coming
from institutions
- or via broadcast - any longer.

24. hps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for consuming,
but connecting.