The document discusses the importance of integrating technology and creativity into education, emphasizing that current teaching methods often disconnect students from the hyperconnected world. It highlights the need for a connected pedagogy that fosters engagement and creativity rather than simply focusing on traditional methods. The author advocates for a vision of education that acknowledges the interconnectedness of knowledge and prepares students for the complexities of the modern world.

1. Only connect Stephen “trib” Collins
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2. “Only connect! That was the whole of
her sermon. Only connect the prose
and the passion and both will be
exalted, and human love will be seen
at its height. Live in fragments no
longer.”
E.M. Forster, Howard’s End

3. BIG

4. Arguably
bigger
than this

5. “Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets
hyperempowerment.”
Mark Pesce, Hyperpolitics American Style
http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=61

6. People power

7. Shifting divide

8. One
weekend’s
worth of ads

9. Participate, engage, co-learn

10. Hyperdisconnected

11. Why is this still the model
for the classroom?

12. Why do we make them
disconnect?

13. Class is like this

14. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GY0oZ3kXRYq_LGNW1BcjbA
“The entire curriculum is
currently geared to pens,
paper, books, etc. The
computer is bling.”
http://twitter.com/mpesce/status/4166138865

15. A vision of students today
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119

16. Content = commodity

17. Power shift

18. Here’s where the power is

19. Integrate technology vs.
adding technology
Connected pedagogy vs.
teaching with the Internet

20. Integrated

21. We have no idea

22. Knowing facts
approaching
irrelevancy as time
to find
approaches zero

23. Wired to connect

24. “My contention is that creativity
now is as important in education
as literacy, and we should treat
it with the same status… we're
now running national education
systems where mistakes are the
worst thing you can make. And
the result is that we are
educating people out of their
creative capacities.”
Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/3569194255/

25. Engagement
Relevancy
Creativity
Extension
Mistakes

26. Explore the "what else"

27. Connected classroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

28. 21st Century
skills

29. http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html
“The progression of today's
college student is to jettison every
interest except one. And within
that one, to continually narrow the
focus. Learning more and more
about less and less. This, despite
the evidence all around us of the
interconnectedness of things.”
Liz Coleman, TED 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billhr/3266181698/

30. Contextualise

31. I want school to be like this

32. Why isn’t hyperconnectedness
the heart of education?

33. Universal digital literacy

34. Wayfinding

35. What else?

36. Bigger picture

37. Not just me. Not even just us.

38. Hannah

39. Step up

40. Imagine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnight_trucker/376653652/

41. Thank you

42. Like the cool pictures?
iStockphoto.com, Picasa and Flickr
And the awesome videos?
A Vision of Students Today
from KSU Digital Ethnography
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119
Twitter in the classroom
from University of Minnesota
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

43. License
Share/Remix/Spread... don’t forget to attribute
http://www.slideshare.net/trib

44. Contact me
Stephen “trib” Collins
trib@acidlabs.org
@trib
+61 410 680722
Canberra, Australia
www.acidlabs.org