A presentation for my participatory media in education class to show initial thoughts on a future project.

1. How are norms around
privacy and publicity
reflected in online
learning environments?

3. John Dewey:
the school is a
social
institution
John Dewey pic by Underwood & Underwood NY https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:John_Dewey_lib.jpg;
school pic from https://rhhr.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-regulators-the-school-system/

4. Learning is social
• We construct knowledge through
discussion, argument, debate, criticism,
publication, public demonstration,
dissemination, collaboration and teamwork.
• But that doesn’t mean that all interactions
are ‘public’ all the time.

5. (1)
Norms of information
sharing in learning

6. Pic by Dave McLean, CC BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/damclean/2804826/

7. pic by Thiago Lopes http://www.flickr.com/photos/mystic/254752892/

8. Pic by Kim Cofino CC BY NC SA http://www.flickr.com/photos/superkimbo/3121816803/

9. Pic by cactusbillaz http://www.flickr.com/photos/cactusbillaz/4309493008/

10. http://www.saintmonica.net/school/picture.page/sciencefair.2008/album/slides/dsc_7393.html

11. (2)
Technology spaces for
“managing” learning

16. (3)
Where is the
disconnect?

17. Helen Nissenbaum: privacy can be infringed when
“contextual integrity” of an information flow is broken.
Pic by Joe Hall CC BY http://www.flickr.com/photos/71753172@N00/2385347167

18. norms of information flow
• we don’t expect that conversations we had
while learning a subject when we are in a
classroom will be persistently available
forever;
• we don’t expect that what goes on in the
classroom will be visible to everyone all the
time;
• we don’t expect that others will ‘listen in’ to
our team’s discussions.

19. norms technology
dynamic static
multiplicities binary
audience for ‘public’ is audience for ‘public’ is
defined undefined
multiple roles beyond assumes only one role
‘student’ and ‘teacher’ per user

20. Public 100
‘open’ virtual
80 classroom
60
F2F classroom
40
20 ‘closed’ virtual
classroom
Private 0
Time
Start of class
In-class question
In-class presentations
Presentations to student body, parents, friends
End of class
Privacy and publicity in F2F versus
‘open’ and ‘closed’ virtual classrooms

21. Lots more questions...
• what roles do we play during a class and
how do these roles changes over time?
• do the terms ‘open’ and ‘closed’ education
play any role in these decisions?
• are there ways of designing technology to
accommodate norms of information sharing
that change over time?