This document provides instructions for joining an online meeting about creating new contexts for learning using social networks. It also shares ideas and quotes about how social media and technology can be used to build communities, develop 21st century skills, and engage students in authentic learning experiences beyond the classroom.

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2. The Social Network:
Creating New Contexts for Learning
Mark Silberberg
msilberberg@lrei.org
@silberbergmark
TodaysMeet: http://bit.ly/twt13-todaysmeet
SpacePlace characters: http://bit.ly/twt13-characters

3. the world that's here
and the one
we're evolving into

4. the challenge
for schools:
not just better,
but different
- Will Richardson

5. 125 years?
what about
5 years?

6. in 2008 NCTE
adopted a set of
21st century
literacies

7. active, successful
participants in this 21st
century global society
must be able to:

8. develop proficiency
and fluency with the
tools of technology

9. build intentional cross-
cultural connections and
relationships with others so
to pose and solve problems
collaboratively and
strengthen independent

10. design and share
information for global
communities to meet a
variety of purposes

11. manage, analyze, and
synthesize multiple streams
of simultaneous information

12. create, critique,
analyze, and evaluate
multimedia texts

13. attend to the ethical
responsibilities required
by these complex
environments.

14. are our students
literate for 2013 and
what lies ahead?

15. or are we still teaching
to a 20th century
definition of literacy?

16. what purposes
and what
responsibilities?

17. Image created by derri_hasm

19. "What we do online is something quite
different: we curate our private lives for
public exposure. . . . We edit out certain
bits, and highlight others. . . . [This] requires
that we acknowledge that certain kinds of
sharing can, in fact, advance a wider public
good. . . ."

20. "[We need] to recognize that their increasingly
public existence brings more promise than peril.
We have to learn how to break with that most
elemental of parental commandments: Don't talk
to strangers. It turns out that strangers have a
lot to give us that's worthwhile, and we to
them."
- Steven Johnson in Time Magazine

21. Imagine for a second if we taught our teenagers to drive
a car in the same manner we attempt to teach them
about social media:
Driving lessons would be taught by adults (teachers or
parents) with little or no experience of driving.
Driving lessons would only focus on what
not to do.
Driving lessons would NEVER take place
in an actual car.
- Dan Haesler

22. Digital Leadership Continuum for Schools
from George Couros

23. external vs. internal "threat"
avatars, identity and messaging
the myth of "privacy"
my "public" personna
citizenship obligations

25. Moving the classroom conversation online:

26. Establishing norms for the conversation:

27. Creating new spaces and opportunities for engagement:

28. An unanticipated benefit that allowed us to raise expectation and
differentiate to better meet the needs of learners:

29. Connecting with a wider and more authentic audience:

32. Using the online space as a community commons:

34. Connecting with the wider school community:

35. Letting
students
create the
conditions
for new
community:

36. Building and overseeing the scaffolding and then getting
out of the way:

38. Making the technology invisible so that the focus
is on the learning:

39. Students learn letter writing, phone calling,
email and interview, Skype skills that they use
to identify and work with partner organizations

40. Groups create web sites on our Elgg social
media site to document their work

41. They blog about their site visits, interviews and
their developing understanding of the issues.
Peers and partners comment on their posts.

42. They join in with and initiate actions to
support their partner organizations

43. They plan workshops to teach 5th-7th
graders about their issue for our annual
Social Justice Teach-In

49. for our consideration:
how might educators engage with digital
technologies so that students can become
empowered citizens rather than passive consumers?
what technological innovations will help to create a
society where people can flourish within informed,
democratic and diverse communities, as opposed to
a culture of narcissists that are fragmented by a
continuous partial attention?
- Phil McRae

51. The Social Network:
Creating New Contexts for Learning
Mark Silberberg
msilberberg@lrei.org
@silberbergmark
TodaysMeet: http://bit.ly/twt13-todaysmeet
SpacePlace characters: http://bit.ly/twt13-characters