This document discusses various aspects of networked literacies. It covers topics such as blogging, social networking, open teaching, crowdsourcing content, real-time collaboration, issues with inappropriate content and verifiability online. It also discusses concepts like new media texts, the abundance of information, multimodal expression, complex authorship, expanding audiences, and the importance of social connections and digital reputation. Overall, the document examines how networks and new media are changing literacy and the skills needed to navigate online spaces.
11. - our point of perspective as a learner, where our
knowledge & experience is situated (to reveal
what I am blind to or able to see).
- our point of intersection through multiple
why begin contexts, world views, personal & professional
relationships.
at “me”?
(short version) - our point of privilege and access to knowledge
& experience.
- our point of power when forming, managing,
and maintaining relationships.
- our point of personalization as learning &
memory are tied to emotion (my attempt to
build my rapport and connection with you).
12. “People donʼt buy what you do,
they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)
17. Questions
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we
know?
• why do we know what we
know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
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21. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
30. media stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email
users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
42. “Some of the comments on
Youtube make you weep for the
future of humanity, just for the
spelling alone, never mind the
obscenity and naked hatred.”
@leverus
(Lev Grossman)
49. “You are not Facebookʼs
customer. you are the product
that they sell to real customers -
advertisers. Forget this at your
peril.”
(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)
52. Kyle Doyle is not going to
work today, f*** it, I’m still
trashed. SICKIE WOO
Cisco just offered me a
job! Now I have to weigh the
utility of a fatty paycheck against
the daily commute to San Jose
and hating the work
54. “...the set of abilities and skills where
aural, visual, & digital overlap. These
include the ability to understand the
power of images & sounds, to recognize
& use that power, to manipulate &
transform them pervasively, & to easily
adapt to new forms.”
(New Media Consortium, 2005, on ʻnew literaciesʼ)
55. - new media are texts
- information is abundant
- surge of multimodal/multimedia expression
- authorship increasingly complex
assumptions - social contexts collapsing
(short version)
- potential audience expanding
- social connections important
- technology tends to be deterministic
- digital reputation management vital to citizenry
- wayfinding, sensemaking, curation,
participation, production vital to literacy
56. danah boyd
pay attention to ...
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences,
collapsed contexts, blurring of
public & private spaces @zephoria
74. critical competence
(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)
75. “Education ... has produced a
vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is
worth reading, an easy prey to
sensations and cheap appeals.”
(Trevelyan, 1942)
82. “Literacies nourish each other.
One literacy helps another to
grow. Literacies contain each
other and require each other.”
(Sheridan, 2000)
83. Michael Wesch
• As we “move toward an
environment of instant & infinite
information ... we need to move
from bring simple knowledgeable to
knowledge-able.”
• Youtube & other social media
mitigate “connection without
constraint”. In many cases this
@mwesch leaves to “tremendously deep
communities”.
90. “... the practice of freedom, the
means by which men & women
deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation
of their world”
(Freire, 1970)