OR… THE POTENTIAL OF PERSONAL
LEARNING NETWORKS
IBSA 7 MAY 2014
JOYCE SEITZINGER

Kia Ora!
Goedemiddag!
Gidday!

Joyce Seitzinger
@catspyjamasnz

LINK TO DIGITAL HANDOUT
http://tiny.cc/ibsapln

2007

SHOWS AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/device-shipments-rise-to-24-billion-2013-6

WE
GRAZE ON
INFORMATION
- PEW RESEARCH

People live their lives and learn across multiple
settings, and this holds true not only across the span
of our lives but also across and within the institutions
and communities they inhabit – even classrooms, for
example. I take an approach that urges me to
consider the significant overlap across these
boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel
through different and even contradictory contexts and
activities.
KRIS GUTIERREZ

JOI ITO
“I don’t think education is about centralized
instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of]
establishing oneself as a node in a broad
network of distributed creativity.”
@joi

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CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

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DIGITAL VISITOR / DIGITAL RESIDENT MAPPING
Personal
Institutional
ResidentVisitor

Personal
Institutional
ResidentVisitor

DIGITAL RESIDENCY MAPPING
http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2012/11/19/vr-mapping-at-educause/

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Everyone has the same building blocks…
…but how do you put them together?

• Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do you
use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools public
or private?
• What are
advantages or not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation/
Hub
Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You

Many students already have confident social
identities online, but developing identities as
learners, writers, scholars, citizens — these are
important tasks as part of higher education.
- Catherine Cronin
http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-identities/
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

If institutions of learning are going to help
learners with the real challenges they face…
[they] will have to shift their focus from
imparting curriculum to supporting the
negotiation of productive identities through
landscapes of practice.”
- Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

• Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do you
use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools public
or private?
• What are
advantages or not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation/
Hub
Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You

cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process
Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection and
sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social
purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression
or community participation.”
Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference
Proceedings

Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process

• Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do you
use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools public
or private?
• What are
advantages or not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation/
Hub
Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You

A NEW FRONTIER FOR EDUCATION

SO IF THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE LEARN,
HOW WILL THEY GET RECOGNIZED FOR
THEIR LEARNING?

BADGE DEFINITION
• “Digital credential that represents skills,
interests and achievements earned by an
individual through specific projects,
programmes, courses or other activities.”
(Mozilla, 2013)

WHO IS USING DIGITAL BADGES?
• Khan Academy
• LinkedIn
• Deloitte
• Gamification
• Do not talk to each other.
• Not transferable

MOZILLA’S OPEN BADGES
“Learning today happens everywhere. But it's
often difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements that happen online or out of
school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that
problem, making it easy for any organisation to
issue, manage and display digital badges across
the web.”

EARNER, ISSUER, DISPLAYER, AUDIENCE

Image: Mozilla Foundation

IF WE USE OPEN BADGES
• Can facilitate informal and formal learning
• Can represent hard or soft skills
• Can be issued by an institution, after-school
club, maker society, employer, a community of
practice, a peer,….
• Can be built on for lifelong learning
• Can transfer between contexts and life stages

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http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/badge-pathways-part-1-the-paraquel/
BADGE SYSTEMS & PATHWAYS

IF YOU THINK THIS ISN’T GOING TO
AFFECT YOU…

WHO HAS ADOPTED THE OPEN BADGES
STANDARD

Every last Thursday of the month, 7PM AEST/9PM NZ
Google+: OBANZ
Twitter: @ob_anz Facebook.com/openbadgesanz
MORE ABOUT OPEN BADGES?

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