shrinking world ... expanding web
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A presentation I gave to the Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) Literacy Live forum on the social web.TRANSCRIPT
Shrinking world ... expanding web
What does this mean for you and me as educators and as
global citizens?
Marica Sevelj 11 July 2007
The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.Alvin Toffler
http://seeking.wikispaces.com/ACALforum
The ßeta plan?
• Our world is changing • "We are currently preparing students for
jobs that don't yet exist ... using technologies that haven't yet been invented ... in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet." Karl Fisch, Did You Know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
• We live our lives in beta (Jay Cross, 2007)
The plan for tonight
• Getting to know each other
• Keeping up with the times
• The Social Web• Blogs and blogging• What all this means
for you and your practice
ClockLink.com http://www.clocklink.com/
Weather Pixie http://weatherpixie.com/
Keeping up with the times
Medieval Helpdesk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek
Multiple literacies
‘The many different kinds of literacies needed to access, interpret, criticize, and participate in the emergent new forms of culture and society.’
Kahn and Kellner, 2006
Kahn, R. and Kellner, D. (2006). Reconstructing Technoliteracy: a multiple literacies approach. In Dakers, J. (ed.), Defining Technological Literacy (p.253-73). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Internet culture• Time triumphs perfection• Everything is a work in progress• The user chooses the package • Online networks facilitate personal
connections• To learn something, teach it "• It's a small world after all • Me-learning • Outboard brain • Self-organisation
Cross, J. (2007). Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons
Social web quiz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-9L9bPsWc
The Social Web
Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&eurl=http://seeking.wikispaces.com/ACALforum
Trends in Living Networks Launching the Web 2.0 Framework
http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/05/launching_the_w.html
Characteristics of social media
1. Communication in the form of conversation, not monologue.
2. Participants in social media are people, not organisations.
3. Honesty and transparency are core values.
4. It's all about pull, not push.5. Distribution not centralisation.
Don Hinchcliffe http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/social_media_goes_mainstream.htm
Blogs and blogging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWaSLE1CELc
http://marica.ako.net.nz
Six pillars of blogging
• Publishable• Findable• Social• Viral• Syndicatable• Linkable
Scoble, R., & Israel, S. (2006). Naked Conversations. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
What does this mean for you and your practice?
• Our role is changing – we enable connections
• We cannot produce ‘dependent learners’
• We cannot be ‘dependent learners’• Nurture creativity in yourself and your
learners• It is not about creating digital content
– it is about finding and using what already exists
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/modules/folder/folder.php?space_key=13374&module_key=54359&link_key=41999&group_key=0
Some questions to ponder …
• Who are your teachers?• How are you building your own
learning networks?• How are you modelling your learning
to your learners?• How do we use these technologies in
our own practice?
http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
Imagine a world where everyone was constantly learning, a world where what you wondered was more interesting than what you knew, and curiosity counted for more than certain knowledge. Imagine …
The Cluetrain Manifesto, Chapter 7, Post-ApocalypsoChristopher Locke