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Knock Down the Walls Designing 4 Open/Networked Learning Dr. Alec Couros CNIE 2010 Saint John, NB May 18, 2010
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My keynote presentation for the CNIE 2010 conference in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 18, 2010. The presentation was titled "Knock Down the Walls: Designing for Open/Networked Learning"
Transcript of CNIE 2010 Keynote
Knock Down the Walls
Designing 4 Open/Networked
Learning
Dr. Alec CourosCNIE 2010
Saint John, NBMay 18, 2010
Who is this guy?
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as
scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and
connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)
The Blur
my blog, my hub
content sharing
copyleft
video sharing
social reading
open cv
microblogging
photo sharing
open journal
open teaching
Open Doctrine?
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)
shift
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
@jonmott
David Weinberger
@dweinberger
The Web is “a world of pure
connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of
matter, distance and time.”
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
New Roles
enablers
“Free” Tools
Creativity
New Possibilities
Realtime Collaboration
Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization,
firm, or individual. (wikipedia)
Abundance
Beyond Institution
Disruptive Creativity
Everyone Can Be a Teacher
Open Access
“The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible
to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)
open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events
Synchronous PD
Learning Communities
“Nearly Now” PD
Ubiquity
Projections/Focus
personalization
Connected Reality
quick stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable
Each technology creates a new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.
Mediating Experiences
Mediating Experiences
locks
parents as pirates
the reality
community
Geographic Communities
Mario Couros
Networked Communities
Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
@zephoria
danah boyd
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.
@mwesch
Michael Wesch
“heroes for our mediated culture”
in practice
connecting educators
@kathycassidy
Grade 1 - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy
Grade 1 - Transparent Learning
Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
Grade 6 - Global Connections
@zbpipe
Highschool - Youtube Channel
@amhwrites
Grade 10 - TEDx Project
@christianlong
designing 4 openness
personal learning networks
if you build it ...
non-credit students
social affordance
distributed conversations
culture of sharing
global classroom
invisible colleges
professional identities
disruptive education
“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.”
*this* is not going away
social media provides engagement/motivation
development of meaningful learning communities
incredible possibilities for teaching and learning
good teaching should be shared & transparent
