social learning - updated january 2009

Open Connected

SocialPedagogy for the Connected Age

Fill in the Blanks (i)

• “[This Device] appealed at once to the eye and to the ear, thus naturally forming the habit of attention, which is so difficult to form by the study of books. Whenever the pupil will not fully understand [it] will have the opportunity of enlarging and making more intelligible.”

Fill in the Blanks (ii)• “[These instruments are] not

uncommon, but are little resorted to by the teacher.”

• “The teacher almost knows as little how to use [it] as his pupils.”

What are they talking about?

Educator Quotes from the 1840’s about the Chalkboard

Fill in the Blanks (iii)

• “... the existing system is utterly inefficient. The teacher ... may pour it in the ear, or extract it from the printed page ... but unless he teaches through the eye, no satisfactory instruction can be conveyed.”

Sir David Brewer (1856) on the Magic Lantern

Fill in the Blanks (iv)• “[It] is going to make school so

attractive that a big army of swords and guns couldn’t keep boys and girls out of it.”

• “Mix [it] with education and you’ll have something that makes kids want to go to school. You’ll have to lick’em to keep ‘em away.”

Edison (1911) on Moving Pictures

buzzwords

experiential

collaborative

democratic media

transparent

open

connected

digital

new media

web 2.0constructivist

engagement

creators vs. consumers

multiliteracies

empowering

simulations

school 2.0

digital literacy

21st century learning

authentic

Movement- not technology but epistemology

• Objectivism

• Cognitivism

• Constructivism

• Collective constructionism- Social learning

Individuals

Groups

(Schwier)

Shifts In ET

(Schwier)

Shifts In ET

ObjectivismCognitivism

Social LearningConstructivism

(Schwier)

Shifts In ET

ObjectivismCognitivism

Social LearningConstructivism

Individual growthGroup growth

(Schwier)

Connectivism

Link

“Typical” Teacher Network

The Networked Teacher

Network in Action (link)

Tools of the Social Web

Ed. Blogs

Text

Microblogs

Wikis

Google Tools

Photosharing

Social Bookmarking

Podcasting

Video Sharing

Implications

Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom

Life ‘Round Here

Flat Classroom Project

EC&I 831

Soundbite

Edtech Talk

Emerging Technologies• Grassroots Media

• Collaborative Webs

• Mobile Broadband

• Data Mashups

• Collective Intelligence

• Semantic Web

• Social Operating Systems

I never knew ...

Overload

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern recognition. (McLuhan, 1969)

Networked Proximity

... networked proximity facilitates new kinds of spatially unbound community, and that these emerging forms of sociality are equally or more meaningful than the older ones. Community is thus “liberated,” unhinged from space, and can be maintained regardless of distance. (Mejias, 2007)

Resourceshttp://couros.wikispaces.com (wiki)

http://commoncraft.com/show (videos)

http://edtechtalk.com (online sessions)

http://school20.ning.com (community)

http://www.twitter.com (the network)

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