social media in learning, teaching, and scholarship: 6 tales of practice
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Keynote at the 2013 Teaching & Learning to the Power of Technology Conference at Saskatchewan, Canada. Abstract: The last ten years have seen dramatic changes in the ways millions of individuals connect, communicate, and network via technology and through social media. Social media have also penetrated the higher education sector, and it has been posited that they have influenced not only the ways students connect with each other, but also the ways scholarship is organized, delivered, enacted, and experienced. In this keynote, I will share six research-based stories describing the integration and use of social media in higher education. These stories paint an intricate picture of the use of social media in education and juxtapose three perspectives: (a) social media use guided by techno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism, (b) social media as tools to question and circumvent traditional elements of scholarly practice, and (c) social media as transformative technology.TRANSCRIPT
Dr. George Veletsianos Assistant Professor of Learning
Technologies University of Texas at Austin
6 Keynote at the 2013 Teaching &Learning to the Power of Technology Conference
Social Media in Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship
Tales of Practice
# t l t 1 3
Tale #0: About me
Technology in our family
Social Media use in education
(a) social media use guided by techno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,
(b) social media as tools to question and circumvent traditional elements of scholarly practice, and
(c) social media as transformative technology.
Social Media use in education
(a) social media use guided by techno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,
(b) social media as tools to question and circumvent traditional elements of scholarly practice, and
(c) social media as transformative technology.
Networked Participatory Scholarship
The emergent practice of scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012)
Tale #1: My physician & I
Claims
“participatory internet technologies… have the potential to change the way academics engage in
scholarship”
“technological changes are going to flood how we currently think about, do, and represent research.”
Claims
“participatory internet technologies… have the potential to change the way academics engage in
scholarship”
“technological changes are going to flood how we currently think about, do, and represent research.”
“Motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system …in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks”
“Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail usage look like a rounding error”
“The current understanding of schools in the digital age [is] hampered by a
curious amnesia, forgetfulness or
even willful ignorance of past phases of technology development and implementation…”
Selwyn, 2011, pp. 39
Why is this important?
At a panel at SXSWedu
Do “we” care about learning outcomes?
At a panel at SXSWedu
Do “we” care about learning outcomes?
Of course we do.
At a panel at SXSWedu
Do “we” care about learning outcomes?
Of course we do.
Once we make profits for our investors. That is our mandate.
Tale #2: What scholarly activities do individuals enact on social media?
Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013
Tale #2: What scholarly activities do individuals enact on social media?
Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013
Announcements
Draft papers
Open textbooks
Syllabi + Activities
Live streaming Live-Blogging
Collaborative authoring
Debates + commentary
Open teaching
Public P&T materials
The doctoral journey (e.g., #PhDChat)
Crowdsourcing
Tale #2: What scholarly activities do individuals enact on social media?
Veletsianos (in press); Veletsianos & Kimmons 2012, 2013
Announcements
Draft papers
Open textbooks
Syllabi + Activities
Live streaming Live-Blogging
Collaborative authoring
Debates + commentary
Open teaching
Public P&T materials
The doctoral journey (e.g., #PhDChat)
Crowdsourcing Kasey Ford
Tale #2: What scholarly activities do individuals enact on social media?
PirateUniversity.org
ThePaperBay.com
Reddit.com/r/Scholar #ICanHazPdf
Tale #3: “They are not my friends”
Veletsianos, Kimmons, & French, (2013)
Scholarly identity • Do we create it? • Is it created and/or structured for us?
Repurposing
Veletsianos (2012)
Tale #4: Spaces of gathering
Veletsianos (in press)
Tale #5: The Past Shaping the Present
Veletsianos, Kimmons, & French, (2013)
Tale #6: What is “our” mandate as educators/designers/researchers?
• To be involved in the design of future educational systems. How?
– Advocacy (what are our values?) – Design & Development – Research – Input – Partnerships
What am I doing about this?
What am I doing about this?
http://tinyurl.com/moocvote
Let’s return to this…
(a) social media use guided by techno-enthusiasm and techno-determinism,
(b) social media as tools to question and circumvent traditional elements of scholarly practice, and
(c) social media as transformative technology.
Thank you!
www.veletsianos.com @veletsianos on Twitter [email protected]
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References Available at http://www.veletsianos/publications
Veletsianos, G. (2010). Emerging Technologies in Distance Education. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.
Veletsianos, G. (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education. In G. Veletsianos (Ed.), Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (pp. 3-22). Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.
Veletsianos, G., Kimmons, R., & French, K. (2013). Instructor experiences with a social networking site in a higher education setting: Expectations, Frustrations, Appropriation, and Compartmentalization. Educational Technology, Research, and Development, 61(2)M 255-278.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2013). Scholars and Faculty Members Lived Experiences in Online Social Networks. The Internet and Higher Education,16(1), 43-50.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Assumptions and Challenges of Open Scholarship. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning,13(4), 166-189
Veletsianos, G. (2012). Higher Education Scholars’ Participation and Practices on Twitter. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28(4), 336-349.
Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent Techno-Cultural Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766-774.
Veletsianos, G. (2011). Designing Opportunities for Transformation with Emerging Technologies. Educational Technology, 51(2), 41-46.
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