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Open & Collaborative Learning
Dr. Alec Couros discusses how social networks and digital technologies are transforming education, emphasizing the shift from analog to digital and the importance of open content and access. Key points include the properties and dynamics of social media that enable connected learning, as well as the need for educators to embrace collaborative networks to facilitate innovation. The document highlights the ethical responsibility of schools to adapt to these changes and leverage social media for enhanced engagement and motivation in learning.
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- 1. Open & CollaborativeLearning How Social Networks Are Transforming Education Dr. Alec Couros March 2010 For Saskatoon Cyberschool
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- 11. Each technology creates a new environment. The effects of media come from their form not their content.
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- 15. quick stats (2009) •90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users • 234 million websites • 1.73 billion Internet users • 126 millions blogs • 350 million Facebook users • 4 billion images on Flickr • 1 billion Youtube videos served daily. Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
- 17. Stats as ofMarch 17/10 via Mashable
- 21. David Wiley Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 22. David Wiley Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 23. danah boyd Teens arenot connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to: •Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability. •Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private @zephoria spaces
- 24. Michael Wesch • 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 @mwesch “tremendously deep communities”.
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- 26. “A key totransformation F/OSS is for the teaching profession to establish Movement innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do, collective sharing.” ~ ~Hargreaves
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- 28. Open Content “describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or individual. (wikipedia)
- 29. Open Access “The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net) open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events
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- 42. Grade 1 -Expert Visits @kathycassidy
- 43. Grade 5 -Choir on Youtube ps22chorus.blogspot.com
- 44. Grade 6 -Global Connections @zbpipe
- 45. Highschool - YoutubeChannel @amhwrites
- 46. HigherEd - OpenCourses eci831.wikispaces.com
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- 52. this is notgoing away social media provides engagement/motivation incredible possibilities for teaching and learning ethical responsibility of schools good teaching is shared & transparent
- 53. Don’t limit achild to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore web: couros.ca twitter: courosa google: couros couros@gmail.com
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- #10 Institutional Survivor
- #20 How many people have watched this video “David After the Dentist”, a seven year old boy coming home from the Dentist after some anesthetic. Something like 21 milllion people have now viewed this clip, and there have various remixes. And there are certainly some issues of what we share online, how it quickly goes out of our control. This is something all of us must understand.
- #21 How many people have watched this video “David After the Dentist”, a seven year old boy coming home from the Dentist after some anesthetic. Something like 21 milllion people have now viewed this clip, and there have various remixes. And there are certainly some issues of what we share online, how it quickly goes out of our control. This is something all of us must understand.
- #22 How many people have watched this video “David After the Dentist”, a seven year old boy coming home from the Dentist after some anesthetic. Something like 21 milllion people have now viewed this clip, and there have various remixes. And there are certainly some issues of what we share online, how it quickly goes out of our control. This is something all of us must understand.
- #23 How many people have watched this video “David After the Dentist”, a seven year old boy coming home from the Dentist after some anesthetic. Something like 21 milllion people have now viewed this clip, and there have various remixes. And there are certainly some issues of what we share online, how it quickly goes out of our control. This is something all of us must understand.
- #24 Luboto Library project - AIDS orphans - Zambia http://www.flickr.com/photos/lubutolibraryproject/3329934072/sizes/l/ http://www.lubuto.org/
- #32 http://www.personalizemedia.com/the-count/
- #48 http://pipedreams.edublogs.org/2009/09/09/global-collaboration-part-two/
- #49 http://pipedreams.edublogs.org/2009/09/09/global-collaboration-part-two/
- #50 http://mapalist.com/Public/PublicMapViewerShell.aspx?mapid=69980 And to think about the reach of this course, with no marketing or PR beyond Saskatchewan. With almost all free or open source tools. And the kicker, the majority of students not participating for credit.
- #51 http://mapalist.com/Public/PublicMapViewerShell.aspx?mapid=69980 And to think about the reach of this course, with no marketing or PR beyond Saskatchewan. With almost all free or open source tools. And the kicker, the majority of students not participating for credit.
- #52 http://mapalist.com/Public/PublicMapViewerShell.aspx?mapid=69980 And to think about the reach of this course, with no marketing or PR beyond Saskatchewan. With almost all free or open source tools. And the kicker, the majority of students not participating for credit.
- #53 http://mapalist.com/Public/PublicMapViewerShell.aspx?mapid=69980 And to think about the reach of this course, with no marketing or PR beyond Saskatchewan. With almost all free or open source tools. And the kicker, the majority of students not participating for credit.
- #63 Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time (Rabindranath Tagore, died 1941)