Slides from my keynote presentation at WESTCast 2011.

1. Rethinking Teaching & Learning
in a Networked Reality
Dr. Alec Couros - February 2011
WESTCast

2. #westcast11
bit.ly/westcast11

3. email your weather photos to:
red42means@photos.flickr.com
subject: your location
body: your name

4. who is this guy?

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/

7. The Blur

8. Digital Resident

12. course participants

13. Open Doctrine

14. i. context
ii. inspirations
iii. the road ahead
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luchilu/540711393/sizes/o/in/photostream/

15. context

21. Informal Learning
• “Informal learning is a
significant aspect of our
learning experience.
Formal education no
longer comprises the
majority of our learning.”
•
George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

22. Access

25. Search

27. transition

28. Mobile Computing

30. Free & Open Content

33. FreeTools/Networks

34. Participatory
Media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosauraochoa/3256859352/sizes/z/in/photostream/

35. Pier 21, 1958

36. Dad

38. The greatest digital divide is
between those who can read
and write with media, and
those who can't.
Elizabeth Daly
cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/ 38

40. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

41. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

42. media 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
• 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month on Facebook
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

43. http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html

44. restrictions

45. parents as pirates

47. contrived personalization

48. viral videos &
unintentional fame

49. danah boyd
pay attention to ...
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences,
collapsed contexts, blurring of
public & private spaces @zephoria

55. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y

56. intentional identity

57. Owing a domain name is
about claiming your piece
of the internet. You’re no
longer renting, you’re a
home owner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/

59. Digital Residency/Digital Portfolios

60. Best Job in the World

61. 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.

63. Networks
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map

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

65. Politics
Howard Rheingold
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

66. Services

68. Charity

71. Creative Projects

74. Human
Connections

77. So Why Not
Education?
Personal Learning Network

78. “networked learning is a process of
developing and maintaining connections
with people and information, and
communicating in such a way as to
support one anotherʼs
learning.” (Wikipedia)

79. connections

80. Crowdsourcing
Example #1:
Deconstructed

81. Crowdsourcing
Example #2:
Deconstructed

82. inspirations

83. Challenges of Participatory Culture
“How do we ensure that every
child has access to skills and
experiences need to become a
full participant in the social,
cultural, economic, and political
future of our society?”
Henry Jenkins

84. Example #1: Transparent Walls
@royanlee

85. Example #2: Publishing in the Open
ps22chorus.blogspot.com

86. Example #3: Shared Global Experiences
@langwitches @hdurnin @glassbeed

87. Example #4: Making It Relevant
@danikabarker

88. Example #5: Meaningful Connections
@courosa

89. Example #6: Rethinking Classroom Time
@karlfisch

90. Example #7: PD Anytime, Anywhere

91. Example #8: New Ways of Knowing

92. Example #9: Connecting to Experts
@kathycassidy

93. Example #10: Learning/Sharing in the Open
@christianlong

95. there are thousands of examples
but this is not the norm

96. the road ahead

97. 21st Century Learning
• “What happens to
traditional concepts of
classrooms and teaching
when we can now learn
anything, anywhere,
anytime?”
Will Richardson

98. Embrace Our Reality

99. Connect with Others

100. Create a Culture of Sharing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

101. Let Go Of Control
http://www.flickr.com/photos/admitchell08/2574455073

102. Shift
Private Public
Closed Open

103. “We need to move beyond the idea
that education is something that is
provided for us, and toward the idea
that an education is something that
we create ourselves.”
(Downes, 2010)

104. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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