This document summarizes a presentation about open scholarship and connected learning. It discusses how knowledge is acquired and shared, from human thought to various coding languages. It also examines shifts towards more open and collaborative models of learning, including the rise of open content online and network literacies. Key barriers like power and control are addressed. The importance of collaboration, critical thinking, and questioning established ideas are emphasized in developing 21st century learning networks.

1. Open Scholarship & Connected Learning
PELeCON
April 19, 2012
Plymouth UK
Dr. Alec Couros

3. #pelc12

4. me

5. Who Am I?

6. The Blur

11. Matt
Kirk
Nick

13. open teaching

14. non-credit students

15. Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open

16. early inspirations

17. knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what
we know?
• why do we know what
we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?

18. human thought/ideas
human language
source code
high-level language
(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)
low-level language
(assembly language)
code irretrievable
machine code
(binary)

20. “Linux is subversive. Who would have
thought even five years ago that a
world-class operating system could
coalesce as if by magic out of part-time
hacking by several thousand
developers scattered all over the
planet, connected by only tenuous
strands of the Internet.”
(Raymond, 1997)

21. “A key to transformation is for the
teaching profession to establish
innovation networks that capture
the spirit and culture of hackers -
the passion, the can-do, the
collective sharing.”
(Hargreaves, 2003)

22. 21st Century Learning Networks

23. 21st Century Learning Networks

24. power, control & fear
as key barriers

28. Free/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. From
NAGPS
(2011)
via
h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut

30. shifts in edtech Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning

31. @jonmott

32. literacies

36. Network Literacies
• “Understanding how
networks work is one of
the most important
literacies of the 21st
century.” (2010)
Howard Rheingold

37. Politics
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

38. http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

39. Services

40. Reputation

41. Crowdsourcing

42. “I’m New” by Kutiman

43. Kindness in Networks

45. God bless you and your family
through this difficult time.

46. My best attempt, I only
removed the tubing, left
colors and levels alone. I
am sorry for your loss.

47. I color corrected the
skintones a bit as well.

48. minor lighting, a 6 x 4 crop for printing in standard size &
removed some of the background.
well done fellow redditors !!!!

49. Fixed
the
chair

50. OK black background gone. Sorry it took so long, had
to start over. Thanks again to wahoorob for doing the
hard part.

51. Sorry for the late help. I went
for simplicity. Enjoy - and I
hope you remember her well.

52. myth of the digital native

53. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

54. Children and young people are described as ‘the
collaboration generation’, eager to work together
towards common goals, share content and draw upon
“the power of mass collaboration”. This combination of
individualisation and collaboration is often presented
as giving young people a propensity to question,
challenge and critique. These are individuals who
“typically can’t imagine a life where citizens didn’t
have the tools to constantly think critically, exchange
views, challenge, authenticate, verify, or debunk.
The Digital Native - Myth & Reality, Selwyn (2009)

55. Are We To Believe This?

56. Or This?

57. Or This?

58. “... age is not a determining factor in
students’ digital lives; rather, their familiarity
and experience using ICTs is more relevant.”
“... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate:
those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation
growing up to replace an older analogue
generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by
access and opportunity.”

59. information literacy

65. memes

66. “The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the
meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a
fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”
Lowenstein, 1999

67. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

71. “...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western
governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get
their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker

79. what does it mean when
you like something?

80. digital fluency

81. “Technological fluency means much more
than the ability to use technological tools;
that would be equivalent to understanding a
few common phrases in a language. To
become truly fluent in a language (like
English or French), one must be able to
articulate a complex idea or tell an engaging
story -- that is, to be able to make things of
significance with these tools. ”
The Computer Clubhouse: Technology Fluency in the Inner City, Resnick, Rusk, & Cooke (1998)

82. The Difference Between Digital Literacy & Digital Fluency, C. Briggs (2011)

84. digital identity

87. Best Job in the World

89. On Digital Video
• “Ten years ago, not one student in
a hundred, nay, one in a thousand,
could have produced videos like
this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital
and important skill, and one
utterly necessary not simply from
the perspective of creating but
also of comprehending video
Stephen Downes communication today.

96. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/

101. social learning

105. “To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”

109. closing thoughts

110. open scholarship

111. 111

112. 112

115. making learning visible

120. Text

121. Live Radio From the Classroom

122. Live Radio From the Classroom

124. how are you making learning visible?

125. how are you contributing to
the learning of others?

128. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
http://couros.ca
couros@gmail.com
@courosa