network literacy & the tools of engagement
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Presentation for the MICDS Summer Teacher Institute, June 22, 2009, in St. Louis Missouri.TRANSCRIPT
Network Literacy & the Tools of Engagement
Alec CourosMICDS - June 2009
#micds
Who is this guy?
Winners
Heroes
Open Courses
Who are you?
Thoughts & experience re:
on technology & learning?
What do you feel have been the
big changes wrt education?
Knowledge
Knowledge & Computing
Objectivism
Group growth
(Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social Learning
Shifts in Education
Power & Control
Power & Control
A Connected Reality
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what
we know?
• why do we know what
we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
Key Questions
open source software
open contentopen access publication
open accreditation
open education
open access courses open teaching
free software
open educational resources
Forms of Openness
Influences
Available Tools
how we view learning - institutional & informal
open content, access, publication, accreditation
Accessible Knowledge
Social Reading
Toward Web 3.0
How do learners deal with the reliability of
information? How do we verify what is ‘true’?
How do we manage the ever increasing flow of
information?
Social Networks
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.
• networks formed around shared interests & objects.
Social Networks
Human Network
Netbooks - 1:1
Microblogging
Nearly Now
As we approach a reality of reduced physical boundaries & greater connectedness, what
are the professional & pedagogical challenges faced by teachers? How do we overcome these?
Personal Learning Networks
The Way We Were
Rise of the PLN
My Blog, My Hub
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Spontaneous PD
Social Network Services
Slide Decks
Copyleft
How should schools deal with content ownership, student publishing, & sharing? Also,
what are the benefits and/or drawbacks of sharing & openness in schools?
Media Literacy
• Accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating messages in a variety of forms.
• Enable skillful creators, consumers, and disseminators of media.
• Facilitate an understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and influences of media forms.
Media Literacy
Offensive Content
Offensive Content
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy
Offensive Content
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking
Cyberbullying
Each technology creates a new environment.
The old environment becomes content for
the new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their form
not their content.
Spread of Media
Viral Videos
Spread of MediaControl & Choice
Sociality
Disruptive Forms
Surveillance Society
Transmedia
What are strategies for understanding new &
emerging media? How do we become participants?
How do we encourage and assess new forms of
creativity in our classroom?
In Practice
Grade One - Expert Visits
Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Grade Seven/Eight - Classroom Studio
High School Math - Scribe Posts
University History - Twitter
Virtual Office Hours
Field Experience
Mindsets, Skills, Perspectives
lightbulbvs.
ipod
Understanding Media
Impact of Learning Environment
Small Tools, Loosely Joined
Distributed Conversations
Open Intent
Sharing by Default
Expert Visits
Private Public
Closed Open
Support
Professional Learning
New Roles for Educators
Outreach
sustained community
transformative experiences
move toward openness
gained technical skills
media literacies
empathy toward new literacies
greater community
Benefits
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built,
it never has to end.”
“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to critique & review my
practice. I never knew how important social networks were. Now, I couldn’t be a teacher without being
connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”
What do you want to learn today?
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore