ECS210: Curriculum as (Online) Community

February 10, 2014@kbhildebrandt

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Katharinewillis

Housekeeping

✦ Attendance

✦ Submitting assignment two

✦ Blogs - comment moderation - moourl.com/moderation

Getting started✦ Think about: When you want to

figure out the answer to a question, where do you turn?

✦ https://todaysmeet.com/ECS210

✦ Today's meet page

The Nature of Learning

✦ Digital Delivery

✦ Interest-Driven

✦ Skills 2.0

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/

“What we as adults experienced in school,

as educators and students, will bear little

resemblance to what lies ahead.”

The advent of the Internet “removes many constraints of space and time [so that] some of the current social patterns that are evident in suburbia or in workplace offices will not be as much in evidence in 2020 as technology reconfigures people’s sense of presence” (Anderson and Rainie, 2010, p. 15).  

Anderson, J. Q., & Rainie, L. (2010a). The future of social relations. Retrieved from Pew Internet website: http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Future_of_Internet_ 2010_social_relations.pdf

Wellman, B. (2002). Little boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism: From little boxes to social networks. Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches. Retrieved from http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/littleboxes/littlebox.PDF

Individual -> ConnectedScarcity -> Abundance

MYOB Learning -> ParticipationSchool learning -> 24/7 Learning

Participation on the web - viral videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxVIwCbBK0

Participation to help others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSSNHO1dDs

#Comments4kids

Participating to learn - Anytime learning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuFsDN8dsJU

Crowd-sourcing ideas

Crowdsourcing ideas...

Context Collapse“Look carefully at a webcam. That’s there. That’s

somewhere else. That could be anybody. On the other side of that little glass lens is almost everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of,

and even those you have never heard of. In more specific terms, it is everyone who has or will have

access to the Internet—billions of potential viewers, and your future self among them. Some have called it at once the biggest and the smallest stage—the most

public space in the world, entered from the privacy of our own homes.” - Michael Wesch

http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/6302/WeschEME2009.pdf?sequence=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmI5SSQLmE

Obvious to you, amazing to others

So what does this mean for teaching

and learning?

“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity” (Ito, 2011, p. D9).

Ito, J. (2011, December 6). In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New York Times, p. D9. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.uregina.ca:2048/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE|A274194814&v=2.1&u=ureginalib&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w&authCount=1

Howard Rheingold - Media Labs Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvnpW8sdHNQ

NCTE http://www.ncte.org/governance/21stcenturyframework

21st century literacies

Teaching our students the skills they will need for their future careers

Modeling digital

literaciesCollaboration

Sharing knowledge

with the world

How we allow students to learn and express their learning...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY

So what can we do about it NOW?

✦ Blogging/Tweeting in ECS210

✦ Connecting with others

✦ Building our own positive, digital identities

How might the changing nature of learning and the increased prevalence of technology be related to social justice and anti-oppressive education?

What is made possible/impossible by these

tools and this type of learning?