This document discusses deep learning in the age of digital distraction. It notes that today's social and mobile reality features vast amounts of online content and connectivity. However, some argue that constant connectivity may be leading to shallow thinking. The document discusses debates around the idea of "digital natives" and examines how youth use social media to socialize and express identity. It provides examples of how multimedia tools can enable deep learning when used to collaborate, give voice, make connections, and engage in lifelong learning networks. The document suggests key ideas around deep learning include sharing, audience, identity, and relationships in a digital world.
Slide deck from presentation to area high school business students who attended a seminar, titled "Your Future -- It's in the Clouds," at Cleveland State Community College on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Internet Psychology, Cyber-ethics, and Citizenship in the Emerging Digital Mi...David B. Whittier, Ed D
Digital life on the Internet appears to carry with it a variation of real world psychology. In this presentation, I examine and discuss research and theory on the specialized nature of Internet psychology, how that psychology influences ethical behavior online, and further, how these features are manifesting in the way young people are experiencing citizenship locally, nationally, and globally.
My books- Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://routledge.com/books/details/9780415735346/
Resources- http://shellyterrell.com/writing
February 2001: I am submitting this thesis paper for my Master of Fine Arts in Producing. In doing so, I am recounting the history of the development of Zoey’s Room, an interactive website and television series for adolescent girls.
Slide deck from presentation to area high school business students who attended a seminar, titled "Your Future -- It's in the Clouds," at Cleveland State Community College on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Internet Psychology, Cyber-ethics, and Citizenship in the Emerging Digital Mi...David B. Whittier, Ed D
Digital life on the Internet appears to carry with it a variation of real world psychology. In this presentation, I examine and discuss research and theory on the specialized nature of Internet psychology, how that psychology influences ethical behavior online, and further, how these features are manifesting in the way young people are experiencing citizenship locally, nationally, and globally.
My books- Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://routledge.com/books/details/9780415735346/
Resources- http://shellyterrell.com/writing
February 2001: I am submitting this thesis paper for my Master of Fine Arts in Producing. In doing so, I am recounting the history of the development of Zoey’s Room, an interactive website and television series for adolescent girls.
A full-day workshop given in Belle Vernon PA on May 1st, 2009. In addition to the formal presentation, there was a time for participants to explore and play with a variety of gadgets that they might want to have in their own libraries.
A large presentation, including
-intro to storytelling
-the classic Storycenter model
-new developments through social media and gaming
-practical advice for using digital storytelling in education
High Impact Programs on a Shoestring BudgetJanie Hermann
A presentation that discusses how a medium-sized single location library can create dynamic and successful programs on a minimal budget. Presented in August 2008 to the Nevada Library Association.
Digitalstorytelling and education: an introductionBryan Alexander
This introduces educators to digital storytelling. The first third is class DS, including its history. The second looks into DS through new forms, such as social media and gaming. Part 3 outlines key features of DS for education.
The New Startup Garage for Innovation? Libraries!Janie Hermann
Libraries as the epicenter of innovation, technology and economic recovery? You bet your assets they are!
By finding creative ways to bring together techies, entrepreneurs, makers, and sometimes even angel investors, today’s libraries are able to inspire real life action that jumps off the page and into startup success. Find out how Princeton Public Library (NJ) is leveraging community collaborations with groups such as the Princeton Tech Meetup, Python Users Group in Princeton, the Princeton Chamber of Commerce and many more to create unique opportunities for social good and local growth.
This conversation will challenge you to rethink the role of the library in your community and encourage you to explore how libraries can be a focal point of insights, ideas and innovation. If you have been seeking a "real world” social platform that has the ability to bring together a mix of thinkers, tinkerers, coders and investors the library just might be your answer!
Skillful Digital Activism: Cultivating Media Ecologies for Transformative Soc...Vicki Callahan
“Skillful Digital Activism: Designing Strategies for Transformative Social Change”
This presentation explores the conceptual frameworks and practical strategies employed in social change campaigns that have utilized digital media as a crucial component of their organizing tool kit. Moving beyond the hazards of superficial social media engagement, or the justly maligned “clicktivism,” to transformative and long term impact, I examine a range of case studies that have worked to develop a “horizontal,” rather than top down, rich media ecology, which networks diverse groups, fosters community, and promotes real change. Whether using virtual reality, interactive documentaries, or DIY tools, projects such as Half the Sky, Lunch Love Community, Food Inc, Triangle Fire Archive, Through the Lens Darkly/Digital Diaspora, VozMob, and #BlackLivesMatter are all pioneering digital tools and strategies in the struggle for social justice. While their philosophies and strategies might be different each campaign mark a shift from a broadcast to a participant focused model where advocacy and engagement are connected. This work was presented at Dublin City University on November 10, 2015 and also an earlier version of this was at the Performance, Protest, and Politics Conference at University College Cork in August 2015. These presentations with part of my Fulbright Research award for 2015-2016.
Helen DeMichiel and Patricia Zimmerman, “Documentary as Open Space,” in Brian Winston’s The Documentary Film Book (Palgrave McMillan, 2013)
Sasha Constanza-Chock, Out of the Shadows and Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (MIT Press, 2014)
Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in Networked Culture (NYU Press, 2013)
Deborah Willis (ed.), Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (The New Press, 1996).
A full-day workshop given in Belle Vernon PA on May 1st, 2009. In addition to the formal presentation, there was a time for participants to explore and play with a variety of gadgets that they might want to have in their own libraries.
A large presentation, including
-intro to storytelling
-the classic Storycenter model
-new developments through social media and gaming
-practical advice for using digital storytelling in education
High Impact Programs on a Shoestring BudgetJanie Hermann
A presentation that discusses how a medium-sized single location library can create dynamic and successful programs on a minimal budget. Presented in August 2008 to the Nevada Library Association.
Digitalstorytelling and education: an introductionBryan Alexander
This introduces educators to digital storytelling. The first third is class DS, including its history. The second looks into DS through new forms, such as social media and gaming. Part 3 outlines key features of DS for education.
The New Startup Garage for Innovation? Libraries!Janie Hermann
Libraries as the epicenter of innovation, technology and economic recovery? You bet your assets they are!
By finding creative ways to bring together techies, entrepreneurs, makers, and sometimes even angel investors, today’s libraries are able to inspire real life action that jumps off the page and into startup success. Find out how Princeton Public Library (NJ) is leveraging community collaborations with groups such as the Princeton Tech Meetup, Python Users Group in Princeton, the Princeton Chamber of Commerce and many more to create unique opportunities for social good and local growth.
This conversation will challenge you to rethink the role of the library in your community and encourage you to explore how libraries can be a focal point of insights, ideas and innovation. If you have been seeking a "real world” social platform that has the ability to bring together a mix of thinkers, tinkerers, coders and investors the library just might be your answer!
Skillful Digital Activism: Cultivating Media Ecologies for Transformative Soc...Vicki Callahan
“Skillful Digital Activism: Designing Strategies for Transformative Social Change”
This presentation explores the conceptual frameworks and practical strategies employed in social change campaigns that have utilized digital media as a crucial component of their organizing tool kit. Moving beyond the hazards of superficial social media engagement, or the justly maligned “clicktivism,” to transformative and long term impact, I examine a range of case studies that have worked to develop a “horizontal,” rather than top down, rich media ecology, which networks diverse groups, fosters community, and promotes real change. Whether using virtual reality, interactive documentaries, or DIY tools, projects such as Half the Sky, Lunch Love Community, Food Inc, Triangle Fire Archive, Through the Lens Darkly/Digital Diaspora, VozMob, and #BlackLivesMatter are all pioneering digital tools and strategies in the struggle for social justice. While their philosophies and strategies might be different each campaign mark a shift from a broadcast to a participant focused model where advocacy and engagement are connected. This work was presented at Dublin City University on November 10, 2015 and also an earlier version of this was at the Performance, Protest, and Politics Conference at University College Cork in August 2015. These presentations with part of my Fulbright Research award for 2015-2016.
Helen DeMichiel and Patricia Zimmerman, “Documentary as Open Space,” in Brian Winston’s The Documentary Film Book (Palgrave McMillan, 2013)
Sasha Constanza-Chock, Out of the Shadows and Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (MIT Press, 2014)
Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in Networked Culture (NYU Press, 2013)
Deborah Willis (ed.), Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (The New Press, 1996).
Slides for my keynote presentation at YRDSB Quest in Richmond Hill, Ontario, November 17, 2010.
Full video of the recording is found here: http://www.rogerstv.com/page.aspx?lid=237&rid=17&sid=3867&gid=73758
My keynote presentation for the CNIE 2010 conference in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 18, 2010.
The presentation was titled "Knock Down the Walls: Designing for Open/Networked Learning"
Session for MSc Media Psychology students @salforduni. What does it mean to live and breath the web and how is technology impacting upon the self? Most importantly is the emphasis on our need for networks and how other people contribute to who we are and what we can achieve.
Identity, Networks, and Connected LearningAlec Couros
Slides from my keynote presentation at the DesireToLearn Fusion conference in Boston, MA, on July 17, 2013. You can download the .key (Keynote) file at https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzmw3pccuugu7aq/D2L.key ... feel free to reuse/remix under the CC-NC/ATT/SA license.
A video of this presentation is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2Xj48iRhw
Mashup of several of my presentations regarding network literacy. This is for EDST499k, a social media seminar I am facilitating in Kelowna - UBC-Okanagan.
Presentation on networked literacies for Literacy GAINS Summer Camp, Parry Sound Ontario.
A mashup of several presentations with a new twist around literacy.
Similar to Deep learning in the Age of Distraction (20)
Slides used to facilitated the Introduction to Connected Learning session in #etmooc (http://etmooc.org). Supporting resources found at: http://bit.ly/Xv3R3P
Taking on the Challenge of 21st Century Teaching & LearningAlec Couros
Keynote presentation for the North East School Division (Saskatchewan) Annual Convention held August 28, 2012. Resources for this presentation available at: http://couros.ca/x/nesd
The slides were used to support the conversations with grades 4-9 at Calgary Girl's School for their Digital Citizenship Symposium. This was facilitated on January 20th, in Calgary Alberta
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Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
13. media stats (2010)
• 107 trillion emails (89% spam), from 1.04 billion users.
• 255 million websites
• 1.97 billion Internet users
• 152 millions blogs
• 600 million Facebook users (sharing 30 billion pieces of
content per month)
• 2 billion videos watched on Youtube daily
• 5 billion photos hosted on Flickr
Stats as of January 2011 via Royal Pingdom
16. Children and young people are described as ‘the
collaboration generation’, eager to work together
towards common goals, share content and draw upon
“the power of mass collaboration”. This combination of
individualisation and collaboration is often presented
as giving young people a propensity to question,
challenge and critique. These are individuals who
“typically can’t imagine a life where citizens didn’t
have the tools to constantly think critically, exchange
views, challenge, authenticate, verify, or debunk.
The Digital Native - Myth & Reality, Selwyn (2009)
21. “... age is not a determining factor in students’
digital lives; rather, their familiar and
experience using ICTs is more relevant.”
22. “... age is not a determining factor in students’
digital lives; rather, their familiar and
experience using ICTs is more relevant.”
“... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate:
those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation
growing up to replace an older analogue
generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by
access and opportunity.”
30. danah boyd
•(Post WWII) “Spaces like dance halls, roller
rinks, bowling alleys, and activity centers
began offering times for teens to socialize
with other teens.... By the late 20th century,
shopping malls became the primary public
space for youth socialization. While
shopping malls once welcomed teens, teens @zephoria
primarily seen as a nuisance now.... What
emerged with the Internet was a radical shift
in architecture. It decentralized publics.”
Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites, boyd (2007)
36. danah boyd
•“The profile serves as a digital representation of
one’s taste’s, fashion, and identity. In crafting the
profile, people upload photos, indicate interests,
list favorite musicians, & describe themselves
textually & through associated media.
•“The vast majority of social network site use
amongst use does not involve surfing to strangers’ @zephoria
profiles, but engaging more locally with known
friends and acquaintances.
•Youth look to older teens & the media to get cues
about what to wear, how to act, & whats’ cool,
Socializing Digitally, boyd (2007)
42. Michael Wesch
•“What you see on Youtube are
tremendously deep communities ...
people revealing parts of themselves
that they refuse to reveal even to their
family or to their closest friends.”
•Youtube mitigates our desire to
connect without the constraint.
@mwesch
46. “As we are drained of our “repertory of dense
cultural inheritance”, we risk turning into “pancake
people” -- spread wide and thin as we connect
with the vast network of information accessed by
the mere touch of a button. (Nicholas Carr, 2008)
47.
48. David Crystal
5 Main Myths
•Texting is full of abbreviations
•The abbreviations are new.
•The fact that people leave out letters
show they don’t know how to spell.
•Young people are putting these
@mwesch abbreviations into home and exams.
•Texting shows the decline of the
English language.
52. “... in an information-rich world, the wealth of
information means a dearth of something else:
a scarcity of whatever it is that information
consumes. What information consumes is
rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its
recipients. Hence a wealth of information
creates a poverty of attention and a need to
allocate efficiently among the overabundance
of information sources that might consume it.
(Herbert Simon, 1971)”
55. Deep Learning
• “Deep learning is learning that takes root in our
apparatus of understanding, in the embedded
meanings that define us and that we use to define
the world.” (Tagg, 2003)
• “Characteristics of deep learning are the integration
and synthesis of information with prior learning in
ways that become part of one’s thinking &
approaching new phenomena and efforts to see
things from different perspectives. (Kuh, Chen,
Laird, 2007)
56. Models of 21st Century Learning
• The Collaborator uses networks of people, knowledge,
skills & ideas as sources of learning - emphasis on
social interactions.
• The Free Agent makes use of continuous, open-ended
& life-long styles and systems of learning.
• The Wise Analyzer gathers evidence of effective activity,
scrutinizes it and applies its conclusions to new
problems & new contexts.
• The Creative Synthesizer connects across themes and
disciplines, cross fertilises ideas, integrates separate
concepts & creates new vision and new practice.
21st Century Learning and Learners, Friesen & Jardine (2007)
57.
58.
59. 21st Century Readers/Writers Must ...
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology.
• Build relationships with others to pose & solve problems
collaboratively and cross culturally.
• Design and share information for global communities to
meet a variety of purposes.
• Manage, analyze, & synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information.
• Create, critique, an analyze multimedia texts.
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these
complex environments.
NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriulum & Assessment (2007)
67. Example #2.2: Power Of (Global) Audience
“My student was delighted by the attention her blog
post had received; it gave her confidence in her
writing and bolstered her enthusiasm for our class....
We were no longer studying an important work of
20th century literature within the narrow context of my
syllabus; instead we had become part of a
conversation that involved the broader reading public.
As a professor, I was displaced from the centre of the
conversation, which became more open, distributed
and student-driven than it had been before.”
Beyond Friending, Gold, 2011
100. “You are not Facebook’s customer.
you are the product that they sell
to real customers - advertisers.
Forget this at your peril.”
(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)
111. “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)