Enacting Digital Identities

Catherine Cronin
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REFLECT
digital identity




SHARE
CT231 experiences




DISCUSS
practices & resources


                    CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
REFLECT
digital identity




SHARE
CT231 experiences




DISCUSS
practices & resources


                    CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
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  “More change will happen in
education in the next 10 years
        than in the past 100.”
              -- @stephenheppell
Summer 2011



Coder Dojo      1st xMOOC       Google+
#CoderDojo       Coursera,
 #DojoCon       Udacity, edX
              xMOOCs / cMOOCs
digital literacies
 social media

digital identity
definition of
                              digital literacies

                    Knowledge of digital tools

                    Critical thinking

                  Social engagement



Definition by Tabetha Newman, adapted by Josie Fraser
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2012/03/digital-literacy-practice.html
8 essential elements of
                              digital literacies

               1. Cultural                                  5. Confident
               2. Cognitive                                 6. Creative
               3. Constructive                              7. Critical
               4. Communicative                             8. Civic




Definition by Doug Belshaw
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/03/10/tedxwarwick-the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies/
Image: corners311
It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean
offline: Facebook is real life.

                 Nathan Jurgenson (2012)
                           The IRL Fetish
...our reality is both technological and
organic, both digital and physical, all at once.
We are not crossing in and out of separate
digital and physical realities, a la The
Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that
is augmented by atoms and bits.

                            Nathan Jurgenson (2011)
                                 @nathanjurgenson
               Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality
“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 practices.”




                              Etienne Wenger
                              SRHE Conference 2010 Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice
                              in deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1
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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
Meaningful learning occurs with
knowledge 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
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Howard Rheingold
@hrheingold
rheingold.com




                   Image: CC BY 2.0 joi
danah boyd
                @zephoria
                danah.org



             networked publics
  space constructed          the imagined collective
       through                   which emerges
networked technologies       (people + tech + practice)




                                           Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
Bonnie Stewart
           @bonstewart
           theory.cribchronicles.com


      digital identities
6 Key Selves of Networked Publics:
       • Performative Self
       • Quantified Self
       • Participatory Self
       • Asynchronous Self
       • Enmeshed Self
       • Neoliberal Self
                                       Image: uvenus.org
CT231: Twitter usernames (n=46)



        Other name
           17%
                     Exact name
                        37%


         “Nearly” name
             46%
CT231: Twitter profile pictures (n=46)




                          Photo (self)
           Egg               26%
           35%


                           Photo (group)
                               11%
                 Avatar
                  28%
Identity construction involves
identity play!




                         Image CC BY-NC 2.0 maria clara de melo
Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Ed Yourdon
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#icollab
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privacy




          CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Frank
          Wuestefeld
#studentvoice

Privacy
“Nowadays people have to be extremely careful
with the information they put on the internet
because they never know who is reading it.
On social network you have to be careful with
who you follow, who follows you, and who your
friends are.”
Image CC BY-NC-ND Will Foste
#studentvoice

Privacy
“On Facebook it gives very little information on me
as my profile is private to unknown persons.
My Twitter account will show a purely educational
social aspect, as I only joined Twitter when we
started using it in conjunction with our subject.
My YouTube account is completely anonymous as
my username has no connection to my actual
name.”
#studentvoice

Social Media
“Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter
mainly just for keeping in contact with people,
but since have discovered they both have much
more to offer. They are places to discover new
information and boost your knowledge. That both
education and socialising can be rolled into
one, and you can discover so much about people in
the world by just following them.”
#studentvoice

Social Media
“I have learnt that social media/social networks are
not just to be used as a distraction for not getting
work done but can be used as an aid to get the work
done. Social media/social networks can provide
useful tools to help with academic learning.”
Enacting Digital Identities
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 = world


CC BY-NC-SA Bonnie Stewart   Digital Identities: Who Are We in a Networked Public?
3 tenets of my teaching


openness • social media • student voice/choice
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
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
openness • social media • student voice/choice


                     AIM:
    use as many opportunities as possible
     for students to Choose & to Create


         TOPICS          ASSESSMENT

          MEDIA            RUBRICS

         TOOLS                 ...
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Learners need to practice and experiment with
different ways of enacting their identities, and
adopt subject positions through different social
technologies and media.


These opportunities can only be supported by
academic staff who are themselves engaged
in digital practices and questioning their own
relationship with knowledge.


                 - Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
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?
Thank you!
Catherine Cronin
  @catherinecronin
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Enacting Digital Identities

  • 1. Image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Frederic Poirot Enacting Digital Identities Catherine Cronin • @catherinecronin • #pelc13 • 11/04/13
  • 3. REFLECT digital identity SHARE CT231 experiences DISCUSS practices & resources CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
  • 4. REFLECT digital identity SHARE CT231 experiences DISCUSS practices & resources CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
  • 5. #pelc11 @simfin @sharonlflynn & @boyledsweetie CC images: foto_mania. catherinecronin
  • 7. Image CC BY-NC 2.0 owaie89 “More change will happen in education in the next 10 years than in the past 100.” -- @stephenheppell
  • 8. Summer 2011 Coder Dojo 1st xMOOC Google+ #CoderDojo Coursera, #DojoCon Udacity, edX xMOOCs / cMOOCs
  • 9. digital literacies social media digital identity
  • 10. definition of digital literacies Knowledge of digital tools Critical thinking Social engagement Definition by Tabetha Newman, adapted by Josie Fraser http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2012/03/digital-literacy-practice.html
  • 11. 8 essential elements of digital literacies 1. Cultural 5. Confident 2. Cognitive 6. Creative 3. Constructive 7. Critical 4. Communicative 8. Civic Definition by Doug Belshaw http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/03/10/tedxwarwick-the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies/
  • 13. It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life. Nathan Jurgenson (2012) The IRL Fetish
  • 14. ...our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits. Nathan Jurgenson (2011) @nathanjurgenson Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality
  • 15. “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 practices.” Etienne Wenger SRHE Conference 2010 Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice in deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1
  • 16. REFLECT digital identity SHARE CT231 experiences DISCUSS practices & resources CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
  • 17. 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
  • 18. Meaningful learning occurs with knowledge 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
  • 26. danah boyd @zephoria danah.org networked publics space constructed the imagined collective through which emerges networked technologies (people + tech + practice) Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
  • 27. Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart theory.cribchronicles.com digital identities 6 Key Selves of Networked Publics: • Performative Self • Quantified Self • Participatory Self • Asynchronous Self • Enmeshed Self • Neoliberal Self Image: uvenus.org
  • 28. CT231: Twitter usernames (n=46) Other name 17% Exact name 37% “Nearly” name 46%
  • 29. CT231: Twitter profile pictures (n=46) Photo (self) Egg 26% 35% Photo (group) 11% Avatar 28%
  • 30. Identity construction involves identity play! Image CC BY-NC 2.0 maria clara de melo
  • 31. Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Ed Yourdon
  • 37. privacy CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Frank Wuestefeld
  • 38. #studentvoice Privacy “Nowadays people have to be extremely careful with the information they put on the internet because they never know who is reading it. On social network you have to be careful with who you follow, who follows you, and who your friends are.”
  • 39. Image CC BY-NC-ND Will Foste
  • 40. #studentvoice Privacy “On Facebook it gives very little information on me as my profile is private to unknown persons. My Twitter account will show a purely educational social aspect, as I only joined Twitter when we started using it in conjunction with our subject. My YouTube account is completely anonymous as my username has no connection to my actual name.”
  • 41. #studentvoice Social Media “Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter mainly just for keeping in contact with people, but since have discovered they both have much more to offer. They are places to discover new information and boost your knowledge. That both education and socialising can be rolled into one, and you can discover so much about people in the world by just following them.”
  • 42. #studentvoice Social Media “I have learnt that social media/social networks are not just to be used as a distraction for not getting work done but can be used as an aid to get the work done. Social media/social networks can provide useful tools to help with academic learning.”
  • 44. 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 = world CC BY-NC-SA Bonnie Stewart Digital Identities: Who Are We in a Networked Public?
  • 45. 3 tenets of my teaching openness • social media • student voice/choice
  • 46. 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
  • 47. 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
  • 48. openness • social media • student voice/choice AIM: use as many opportunities as possible for students to Choose & to Create TOPICS ASSESSMENT MEDIA RUBRICS TOOLS ...
  • 49. REFLECT digital identity SHARE CT231 experiences DISCUSS practices & resources CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC
  • 50. Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media. These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge. - Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
  • 51. 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?
  • 52. Thank you! Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin slideshare.net/cicronin about.me/catherinecronin

Editor's Notes

  1. DI = online personaThis photos captures some of the ambivalence that many of us feel about our digital identities. Many of us are open educators, and have been so for some time, so it might not be easy to remember what it was like when you first ventured into open social spaces online. What was it like engaging with authors of work you had studied? What was it like when they responded to you? How confident did you feel? It’s a process! And THIS is the process that I think is so useful for us to invite our students to engage in, to mentor and model and lead.Many students already have a confidence social digital identity, but developing an identitiy as a learner, a writer, a scholar, a citizen…. these are the essential tasks of us as educators. In the classroom and online, together.
  2. Stephen Heppell (keynote speaker at #pelc11)Affecting all of us... as educators & as learners ourselves. (exciting & challenging time to be an educator)As one small example of this change...
  3. Education must prepare individuals for a constantly changing environment, Individuals must develop digital literacy skills and capabilities.Social media have a role to play…
  4. Huge literature review... (social awareness)Social engagement – enable learners to challenge, change & shape their worlds.Each person needs to find their own digital voice & Personal Digital EnvironmentEach person needs to navigate across digital landscapes
  5. Focus on remix... and thus on the person. Cultural - navigating digital cultures and contextsCivic – different contexts, beyond HEWHY? Learners for life, active in societyDIGITAL IDENTITY?As humans we perform our identity as we interact & communicate with others… offline and online.
  6. Different experiences of time/space, visibility & privacyOFFLINE = organic, physical, laws of physicsONLINE = technological, digital, laws of codingReal lesson of online identity is not that it transforms identity but that it makes us more aware that offline identity was already more multiple, culturally contingent and contextual than we had appreciated
  7. OFFLINE = organic, physical, laws of physicsONLINE = technological, digital, laws of codingDifferent experiences of time/space, visibility & privacy
  8. Knowledge NOT= CurriculumKnowledge = “a living landscape of communities of practice that contribute in various ways” to our learning and to our identitiesSo… HOW do we do this?!
  9. I will explain over the next 10 minutes experiences with one group of students: what we did exploring Digital Identity student reactions what I have learned challenges
  10. 2nd year IT module – students aged 19-20, generally.Umbrella terms for the abilities, literacies & skills to be developed Q: How to design learning experiences and learning spaces to enable students to develop these?
  11. CONSTRUCTIVISM&CONNECTIVISM
  12. What do students use? ...know? ...like? ...dislike?
  13. We agreed to use Twitter as a tool throughout the course… have used G+ in the past, but there were some issues with that.Use a class Twitter account and hashtag. In a study of US undergraduates, Steven Thorne found that email was considered a tool for communication between power levels and generations… not a good tool for relationship-building & social interaction.Invokes digital identity immediately!Must discuss and explore first... privacy, identity in online spaces, etc. Who am I on Google? Who am I here? In this class? Who is the audience?
  14. If there is a way for people to influence or even control the power structures, cognitive effects, social impacts of digital media and networked publics it is through know-how. how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and mindfully. What we know matters, and how we know matters. 5 essential literacies for a world of mobile, social, and always-on media: attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network know-how. The effects of these literacies can both empower the individuals who master them and improve the quality of the digital culture commons.
  15. Global networks, different audiences… data is PERSISTENT _ REPLICABLE _ SCALABLE _ SEARCHABLE
  16. PERFORMATIVE – constituted through practicesQUANTIFIED – clicks, follows, @s, likes, Klout, etc…. Like it or not!PARTICIPATORY – merging of production and consumptionASYNCHRONOUS – beautiful thing of creating your own moment, your own space to respond to othersENMESHED – atoms and bits, Nathan JurgensonNEOLIBERAL – ME, Inc. to what extent are we a BRAND?
  17. We have to embrace play!Moodle/BB = students are themselvesTwitter / SN’s = anything they want to be  value here, but we must be willing to accept & engage.Web *IS* a place for play & experimentation... pseudonyms, avatars, different IDs in different placesWe *ALL* do this to a certain extent!We must allow our students to do the same.
  18. Many reactions… I won’t use Twitter again, I love it.But most students found that social media could be a tool for learning, and this changed them.
  19. Privacy is a HUGE issue for students. When I introduce DI… groan… we were beat over the head with protect / be careful / privacy!In some senses effective, in others, students have shut down.
  20. There was also a great awareness, of different selves with different levels of openness, privacy.
  21. Final quote from KF and NS...