4. It’s the social that
matters
• “Social” software is part of the business
model
• Viral marketing
• “Social” is free on network systems
• “Social” is part of the appeal
• It’s good to talk
12. Learners are doing it
for themselves?
Our-space, your-space, and the
Holy Grail
13. Learning 2.0
• Digital literacy
• For teachers as well as students
• It’s not just about “cool tools”
• A pedagogy that recognises web 2.0
• And repurposes web 2.0 for education
14. Tools: the social stack
Re-syndicated to the individual, organised
Personal tools to suit own preferences
Interest integrated into knowledge
Group collaboration through working together
Blogging and commenting: attention
Personal networks becomes interest
Social signals Store, share, tag and classify
RSS feeds, searches, sites of interest,
Feeds and flows people of interest
After Headshift
15. Pedagogy of
participation
• Recognising new competencies
• What is plagiarism anyway?
• Negotiating the private and the public
• Participation, contribution, esteem and
reputation
17. Not everyone has a
computer…
• But just about everyone has a phone
• How much do you save if you don’t build
computer labs?
• Not everyone wants to go online
18. The science bit
• “Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World”
• Use of Web 2.0 high and pervasive from 11
to 15 upwards
• New sense of communities of interest and
networks
• Information literacies represent deficit area
• Social software for teaching not obvious