The document discusses key concepts in open and connected learning including openness, transparency, sharing, freedom, small tools loosely joined, networks for creating, sharing and learning, immersion for understanding, discovery, literacies as a lifelong process, and assessment through purposeful feedback. It also references how new generations are empowered and impatient with traditional institutions, making this an incredible time for the young and talented.

1. thoughts on
#eci831

2. openness
mindset
transparency
sharing
access
freedom

8. small tools
loosely joined
techno-pedagogical
philosophy

10. content
community as curriculum

13. personal
learning
yours affects others

17. discovery
procedural vs.
navigational

23. literacies
life long process

24. “...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 ‘new literacies’)

25. Michael Wesch
• As we “move toward an
environment of instant & infinite
information ... we need to move
from bring simple knowledgeable to
knowledge-able.”
@mwesch

28. immersion
for understanding

30. networks
create, share, learn

33. I am part of all that I have met.
Tennyson (1842)

34. change
conversation
advocacy
agency

35. ... we’ve reached the point in our (disparate)
cultural adaptation to computing and
communication technology that the younger
technical generations are so empowered
that they are impatient and ready to jettison
institutions most of the rest of us tend to
think of as essential, central, even immortal.
They are ready to dump our schools.
(Cringely, 2008)

36. “what an incredible era
to be young and talented.
(Cormier, 2008)

37. assessment
purpose
subjectivity
relativity
feedback