Presentation on social network in education for preservice teachers at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina.

1. Rethinking Teaching & Learning
in a Networked Reality
Dr. Alec Couros
ECS 100

2. Who is this guy?

6. My Blog, My Hub

7. Photo Sharing

8. Video Sharing

9. Social Network Services

10. Content Sharing

11. Copyleft

12. “Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reflect
and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools
might positively affect -- even transform - research,
teaching, and services responsibilities - only if scholars
choose to build serious academic lives online,
presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in
and connected to the work of their peers and
students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)

13. social networks & media

14. Social Networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
connections, collaboration,
community.
• networks form around
shared interests & objects.

15. A Connected Reality

16. Old World Networks

17. Mario Couros

18. Mediated Reality

20. Twitter in 60 Seconds

21. Each technology
creates a new
environment.
The old environment
becomes content for
the new environment.
The effects of media
come from their form
not their content.

22. The Way We Were

23. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

24. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

25. Rise of the PLN

26. trust

27. easy trust

28. humankind is mostly good

29. View on Society?

32. “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)

34. The Web as Random Acts of Kindness
(TED Talk)
@zittrain
• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through
Internet-facilitated kindness,
collaboration, & sharing.

36. The Machine is (Changing) Us
(Personal Democracy Forum)
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape
our tools and thereafter our tools
shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media
mitigate “connection without
constraint”. In many cases this
leaves to “tremendously deep
communities”.
@mwesch

37. Heroes for our Mediated Culture

38. “The invention of the alphabet and the resulting
intensification of the visual sense in the communication
process gave sight priority over hearing, but the effect
was so powerful that it went beyond communication
through language to reshape literate society’s
conception and use of space.” (Gordon re: Mcluhan)

39. educators and trust

40. via @mcleod

41. via @shareski

44. i can haz internetz

45. @smartinez

46. learners and trust

47. Living & Learning with Social Media
(Penn State address)
Teens are not connecting in the
ways we fear. But, we need to
pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences,
@zephoria
collapsed contexts, blurring of
public & private spaces

48. “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.”

50. Bassman_Sean
(Scotland)
• Scottish teen who
participates in my open,
online grad course.
• Creative, motivated,
independent, connected,
respectful, cognizant and
intentional in managing
his digital identity.
@bassman_sean

51. in practice

52. Grade One - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy

53. Grade Five - Choir on Youtube

54. Grade Six - Global Connections
@zbpipe

55. Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding
@glassbeed

56. Beaver Country Day School - mashUp

57. EC&I 831 -Non-Credit

59. pay attention to ...

60. Access

61. Ubiquity

62. Real Time Web

63. RT Search

64. RT Collaboration

65. RT Streaming

66. Social Reading

67. Trusted Groups

68. New Roles for Educators

69. Professional Identities

70. Professional Development Gone Wild!

71. Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open

73. The Big Ideas
• The future of learning is open,
connected, & social.
• Learning networks redefine
how knowledge is created,
distributed & controlled.
• Meaningful learning can be
fostered through informal
learning networks.

74. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
web: couros.ca
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google: couros
alec.couros@uregina.ca