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

Who am I?

marica.ako.net.nz

Flash Earth

I’m here!

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