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Power of Networks
The document discusses how networks and connectivity are reshaping education. It notes that more video is uploaded to YouTube every month than the major US television networks created in 60 years. Knowledge is now freely available online like air or water. While age is not a determining factor, access and opportunities create a digital divide. Network literacy including understanding how networks work is an important 21st century skill. Learning is becoming more open and social through networks, with learners gaining knowledge from many online sources rather than just educators. The paradigm is shifting from isolated learning to learning through diverse social networks.
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Power of Networks
- 1. The Power ofNetworks And Why It Matters to Education Dr. Alec Couros Saskatchewan IT Summit 2012 Saskatoon, SK May 7, 2012
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- 22. “55. New Kidshave always been known as NKOTB. “1. There has always been an Internet ramp on the Information Highway” “57. They’ve often broken up with significant others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.”
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- 24. Early Day ofPC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
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- 36. “60 hours ofvideo are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.” “Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.” “Over 800 million unique users visit Youtube every month.” “More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”
- 37. 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)
- 39. “Today knowledge isfree. It’s like air, it’s like water... There’s no competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” (2012) @drtonywagner
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- 41. “... age isnot 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.”
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- 45. info/media literacy (digital) identity network literacy
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- 53. memes “The gene hasit’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
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- 56. “...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
- 64. what does itmean when you like something?
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- 67. “The average digitalbirth of children happens at about 6 months.” “In Canada, US, UK, France Italy, Germany & Spain ... 81% of children under the age of two have some kind of digital profile or footprint.”
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- 81. Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010) Howard Rheingold
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- 108. Techno-Social Affordances • How does ‘digital’ (instant, shareable, replicable, findable, remixable, networked, open) reshape teaching & learning? • What does it mean to be connected (locally, globally)? • Who are my teachers? Who are my students?
- 109. learning in theopen
- 111. “To answer yourquestion, 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.”
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- 118. Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open
- 119. how are youmaking learning visible?
- 120. how are youcontributing to the learning of others?
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- 122. “The developed worldis in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in which people and institutions are connected. It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated @barrywellman social networks.” (2002)
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- 125. “The person has becomethe portal.” Wellman (2002)
- 127. how do weget there when ...
- 129. What We NeedNow • Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD. • Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both through infrastructure & mindset. • Plan, develop & support provincial digital fluency strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing. • Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities through this transition.
- 131. Don’t limit achild to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa