Enacting Digital Identities

1. Image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Frederic Poirot Enacting Digital IdentitiesCatherine Cronin • @catherinecronin • #pelc13 • 11/04/13

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3. REFLECTdigital identitySHARECT231 experiencesDISCUSSpractices & resources CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC

5. #pelc11@simfin @sharonlflynn & @boyledsweetie CC images: foto_mania. catherinecronin

6. Image CC BY-NC 2.0 owaie89 “More change will happen ineducation in the next 10 years than in the past 100.” -- @stephenheppell

7. Summer 2011Coder Dojo 1st xMOOC Google+#CoderDojo Coursera, #DojoCon Udacity, edX xMOOCs / cMOOCs

8. digital literacies social mediadigital identity

9. definition of digital literacies Knowledge of digital tools Critical thinking Social engagementDefinition by Tabetha Newman, adapted by Josie Fraserhttp://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2012/03/digital-literacy-practice.html

10. 8 essential elements of digital literacies 1. Cultural 5. Confident 2. Cognitive 6. Creative 3. Constructive 7. Critical 4. Communicative 8. CivicDefinition by Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/03/10/tedxwarwick-the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies/

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12. It is wrong to say “IRL” to meanoffline: Facebook is real life. Nathan Jurgenson (2012) The IRL Fetish

13. ...our reality is both technological andorganic, both digital and physical, all at once.We are not crossing in and out of separatedigital and physical realities, a la TheMatrix, but instead live in one reality, one thatis augmented by atoms and bits. Nathan Jurgenson (2011) @nathanjurgenson Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality

14. “If institutions of learning are going to helplearners with the real challenges they face...[they] will have to shift their focus fromimparting curriculum to supporting thenegotiation of productive identitiesthrough landscapes of practices.” Etienne Wenger SRHE Conference 2010 Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice in deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning ReaderCC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1

16. CT231 – Professional Skills Search & Research Digital & Social Media• search Communication • digital identity• filters • privacy• sources • writing • social bookmarks• referencing & linking • presenting • social networks• copyright & Creative • publishing • Personal Commons • curating Learning • teams/communities Networks (PLNs) ct231.wordpress.com CC images: KayVee.INC, Susan NYC, Jason A. Howie

17. Meaningful learning occurs withknowledge construction, not reproduction;conversation, not reception;articulation, not repetition;collaboration, not competition;& reflection, not prescription.Jonassen, et al (2003)Learning to solve problems with technology: a constructivist perspective

18. Howard Rheingold@hrheingoldrheingold.com Image: CC BY 2.0 joi

19. danah boyd @zephoria danah.org networked publics space constructed the imagined collective through which emergesnetworked technologies (people + tech + practice) Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds

20. Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart theory.cribchronicles.com digital identities6 Key Selves of Networked Publics: • Performative Self • Quantified Self • Participatory Self • Asynchronous Self • Enmeshed Self • Neoliberal Self Image: uvenus.org

21. CT231: Twitter usernames (n=46) Other name 17% Exact name 37% “Nearly” name 46%

22. CT231: Twitter profile pictures (n=46) Photo (self) Egg 26% 35% Photo (group) 11% Avatar 28%

23. Identity construction involvesidentity play! Image CC BY-NC 2.0 maria clara de melo

24. Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Ed Yourdon

25. #icollab

26. privacy CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Frank Wuestefeld

27. #studentvoicePrivacy“Nowadays people have to be extremely carefulwith the information they put on the internetbecause they never know who is reading it.On social network you have to be careful withwho you follow, who follows you, and who yourfriends are.”

28. Image CC BY-NC-ND Will Foste

29. #studentvoicePrivacy“On Facebook it gives very little information on meas my profile is private to unknown persons.My Twitter account will show a purely educationalsocial aspect, as I only joined Twitter when westarted using it in conjunction with our subject.My YouTube account is completely anonymous asmy username has no connection to my actualname.”

30. #studentvoiceSocial Media“Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twittermainly just for keeping in contact with people,but since have discovered they both have muchmore to offer. They are places to discover newinformation and boost your knowledge. That botheducation and socialising can be rolled intoone, and you can discover so much about people inthe world by just following them.”

31. #studentvoiceSocial Media“I have learnt that social media/social networks arenot just to be used as a distraction for not gettingwork done but can be used as an aid to get the workdone. Social media/social networks can provideuseful tools to help with academic learning.”

32. Different contexts have different legitimacy practices Academic Learning Networked Learning product-focused process-focused institutionally-directed self-directed mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = worldCC BY-NC-SA Bonnie Stewart Digital Identities: Who Are We in a Networked Public?

33. 3 tenets of my teachingopenness • social media • student voice/choice

34. openness • social media • student voice/choice AIM: choose openness where possible & where appropriate USE open resources CREATE create to share, CC-licensed SHARE openly, including my/our own learning

35. openness • social media • student voice/choice AIM: enable connection and learning across the (artificial) boundaries of time and space TIME... class time, term time, academic year SPACE... classrooms, labs, desks, buildings

36. openness • social media • student voice/choice AIM: use as many opportunities as possible for students to Choose & to Create TOPICS ASSESSMENT MEDIA RUBRICS TOOLS ...

38. Learners need to practice and experiment withdifferent ways of enacting their identities, andadopt subject positions through different socialtechnologies and media.These opportunities can only be supported byacademic staff who are themselves engagedin digital practices and questioning their ownrelationship with knowledge. - Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)

39. How much of your digital identity do you share with your students?How does using social & participatory media change power relations between students and teachers/lecturers, if at all? What are the biggest challenges in using social media in formal education,for students, for educators, for institutions?

40. Thank you!Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin slideshare.net/cicroninabout.me/catherinecronin