building learning communities: cultivating #newliteracies
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Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note that videos will not play on Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community on +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749TRANSCRIPT
What’s “Historyteachers”?
“eye-deas” :)
REMIX CULTURE
SOCIAL MEDIA 4 ED
NEW LITERACIES
RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
CHOICE and VOICE in
@timbuckteeth
if you want to keep up with anything it’s not about keeping up with technology, it’s about keeping up with literacies”
- Howard Rheingold
= PURPOSE
we don’t have labs for…
new skills ever-changing
full participation
@pomeranian99
performance composition re-contextualization
NEW
digital : shift from print to pixel
Walter Ong
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future
-Marshall McLuhan
NEW
NEWparticipatory culture :
democratization +
collaboration
Henry Jenkins, USC, MIT
In a hunting culture kids play!with bows and arrows;
in an information society!they play with
@henryjenkins
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
informal learning
shared interest
social voice
Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Ivor on Reddit
nomadic learning
@BraddoField School Model
@dajbelshaw, Mozilla
“Every time you’re given a new tool,!it gives you a different way of !
impacting upon the world”
DOUG BELSHAW@dajbelshaw, Mozilla
exploring
connecting
building
SENSE-MAKING
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
What is the deeper meaning
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How can I connect others purposefully
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
NOVEL, ADAPTIVE THINKINGHow can I be flexible and
create new solutions
UNDERSTANDING DATA
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How do I best interpret data and make meaning
CROSS-CULTURAL !COMPETENCY
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How can I work effectively in different cultural settings
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How can I filter, discriminate, and store information
TRANSDISCIPLINARY
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How do I understand concepts across disciplines
DESIGN MINDSET
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How do I develop tasks and processes for a desired goal
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
VIRTUAL COLLABORATIONHow do I best work with others
in a virtual environment
TRANSMEDIA LITERACY
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
How do I best leverage new media for effective communication
Altimeter Group
WATCHING, READING, LURKING
SHARING, RTing, LIKING
COMMENTING, DISCUSSING
CREATING, REPURPOSING
CURATING
HOW TO TEACH FLEXIBILITY
...to deal with new literacies...
...as they come...
ATTENTION COLLABORATION
PARTICIPATION CRAP DETECTION
search savvy
...being an excellent researcher with print does not automatically make you thorough in a different medium, the Web
-Alan November
…a write-able society
-Beth Noveck, TEDGlobal 2012
Ask learners to go BEYOND declarations of knowledge...
...learners need to CREATE and SHARE stuff...
...blogs, articles, images, videos, ARTIFACTS...
-George Siemens, originator of Connectivism Theory
PRODUCE CONSUME
Demonstrate
KNOWLEDGE
Contribute to
KNOWLEDGE
where the kids are
authenticity
We write the equivalent of some 36 million books
everyday on social media and email
Clive Thompson, Wired
@pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
@pomeranian99
The Internet has produced !a foaming Niagra of writing
texts
blogs
comments
fan forums
status
tweets
@pomeranian99Smarter Than You Think
“Knowmad Society”
WREADER
California student @ajaved22
In the digital age, the ability to contribute to discourse on a blog or participate on a social network is just as vital as being able to read a famous work by a well-known author
Dominic Basulto, BIG THINK
was transformed into...
by a Finnish!sketchartist
“though this has nothing to do with any of the summer assignments,
I just had to share this!
Casey Doyle, student
Kasey Tamamoto, student
“quick and dirty”
Listicles - a final reflection
photography
photography
micronarratives
digital storytelling
Beyond the Essay…
“video” + “blog”aka “v-log”
Entered Merriam-Webster Dictionary in
2009
Why Should Students Vlog?
personal; allows for
student voiceeasy; cheap; fun dynamic; can
be augmented
natural; part of “confessional
culture”
less stressful for some practice
new literacies
hard to plagiarize
When to Vlog?
during activity after a long time
briefly after
Decide...
scripted impromptu
talking head artisitic
knowledge opinion
instructive reflective
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Walking = Better Thinking
CREATIVE: SPEEDSKETCHING
CREATIVE: AUGMENTED
set up your own...
21
…and get vlogging
one tag to rule them all
CRAFTING A TWEET
140 char
succinct, rich (like a poem)
public: maintain decorum + spellcheck
etiquette + amplification
contribute to collective knowledge
Q of the Week
backchannel
backchannel
with backchannel
“THE TAG IS...
“THE TAG IS...
...THE SOUL OF THE INTERNET”
“THE TAG IS...
from practical to METAadded commentary;
“muttered into a handkerchief”
HUMOUR SARCASM
TAG TIPS
no spacescaps don’t matter
no punctuation or special char
numbers ok
TAGSMASH
TAGSMASH
TAGSMASH
TAGSMASH
TAGSMASH
create a Twitter profile !for historical / lit figure
crowdsource a global story!1 tweet line at a time
remix trending tweets!into a PSA with music, images
create an image or!multi-media artifact of a tweet
analyze + predict !according to trending words
critique a tweeter’s !arguments or build a case!
made of tweets
analyze tone, !examine bias
paraphrase a book or poem!using 140 characters
“mimeme”
“imitated thing”
memetics
Contemporary info-literacy must involve memes (or memetics) as to how information/ideas spread and why this is important.
Alec Couros, @courosa
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
@austinkleon
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Emily Dickinson’s “Nobody”- remixed to music
Emily Dickinson’s “Nobody”- literary graffiti
Lady Baba: Imperfect Verb Tense (Gaga parody)
I Read Some Marx, And I Liked It !(Katy Perry parody)
Curiosity + Contextualization
significant, relevant info
own perspective
connect, sort, create
beyond life of course
@hjarche-Harold Jarche
Popcornmaker
M zilla
modern marginalia@Braddo
able
d well
*presence
Going from audience of 0-10
Going from 10-1million
“Thinking Out Loud, Clive Thompson, Wired
Henry Jenkins, media theorist
ion
Casey Doyle, Senior
If social media was a newspaper…
Terry Heick, Edudemic
it’d be like “dropping a student’s story !on the front step for others to read…!
without this step the story !is little more than!
and act of compliance !in pursuit of a grade
MOZILLA WEBMAKER HOME
David Weinberger: TOO BIG TO KNOW
SEE
@instahawaiian
@instahawaiian
the new resume?
online is the only space where a student’s bite may grow to match their bark
“On the Internet No One Knows You’re a Student”
RESILIENCE
the cloud is!our campfire
#daretoshare
your big takeaway
a question
your personal challenge
