The document discusses challenges and opportunities for teachers and learners in developing new literacies and skills to meet changing demands from society. It touches on several topics discussed at a conference, including how technologies are changing rapidly and teachers need to make the most of available resources and build professional learning networks. Other discussions focused on not being able to predict the future but focusing on strengths in the present to develop learning, using digital infrastructure for play and collaboration, and developing skills like critical thinking, social learning, media literacy, and flexibility. New literacies mentioned include being adventurous, creative, questioning, and taking responsibility for learning. The implications of these discussions are unclear but suggest focusing on available resources and literacies.

1. Create, connect, collaborate…
Learning in new dimensions
What new literacies and skills will teachers and learners need?
What will the benefits and limitations be?
Do learners change because of changing demands from society?
http://www.delicious.com/bdsandi/pelecon2012 #pelc12

2. Something Better Change
Simon Finch ; @simfin
Teaching for learners who will be challenged to be successful in
2025.
Challenges that teachers face:
Ever changing technologies, a lot of change in the last decade.
Maybe more than ever.
Why no try to make the most of the things (resources) that we´ve
got around? And build a network (PLN) to communicate and
share best practices.

3. Kery Facer
@kerileef , keri.facer@bristol.ac.uk
We cannot predict the future of Educational
Technologies. What is needed is finding the
important strong points in the present and use
these to develop the future.
We shouldn’t look at what will emerge – we should
look at what we have – and try to build on these
for the good of learning and learners.
Digital infrastructure that gives teachers and
students place for play, wonder and
collaboration.

4. Open Content & Connected Learning
Dr. Alec Courous @courosa
If you limit Internet to googling and
gossiping, you´re missing the best part of it

5. Knowledge
• 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?

6. Why Personal Learning Networks
• As learners or teachers, we need to be
surrounded by people, “learning with others
and from others” facilitated by the tools of
PLN.
• Barriers: power issue, sense of control and
fear of failure.

9. Skills
• Be critical readers, become discerning readers on the
WEB! (digital literacy)
• Social learning: learn collaboratively (PLN), use
collaborative platforms responsively (digital identity).
• Media (text, video, images) literacy: produce one´s
Produce stuff for an audience other than the teacher
(relevance and authentic audience).
• Be flexible with time a space: a cracking idea can
happen not during the class period, and be put up in
a blog!

10. New Literacies
Being adventurous
Creating ideas
Discussing with peers
Question things
Working with others
Being active
Imagining possible solutions
Showing initiative
Taking responsibility
Self-evaluating

11. Digital Native Myth & Digital Divide

14. Digital fluency

15. Where does all this leave us?
• What do we have at hand?
• What would we like to try out?

16. Social Learning
Making learning visible and
contribute to the learning of others
Social Media  SNS
Open Education  Content
Personal Learning Networks
Virtual Learning Environments  BDSVC
Literacies: from information literacies to digital
fluency
Digital identity

17. Open Education

18. Simon Finch – video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBMCkoozLg (minutes 5:27 – 7:28)