Sue Beckingham SEDA Summer School

Digital Identity and Personal

Learning Networks

Aims Aims

• Share our understanding of digital identity

• Consider how digital technologies can be used to develop a ‘PLN’

• Discuss why this may be important as 21st century life long learners

Identity

“It is difficult to craft a formal definition of identity. Basically, the essential and unique

characteristics of an entity are what identify it. These characteristics might include, among

other things, the unchanging physical traits of the person, his preferences, or other people's

perceptions of the individual's personality”.

(Abelson and Lessig 1998)

Digital Identity

Activity

In pairs share what you think a digital

identity means

10 minutes

Your Digital IdentityWhat you say

What you shareWho you knowWhere you areYour settings

Anything digitally represented on a file or on the web

Profiles, Contacts, Images, Audio,

Video, Data, Documents, Favourites,

Websites, Blogs and more…

And here's a "Reality" Check

Question

Where is this data collected?

Commerce

Communication

Search Engines

DATA

What goes out there stays out there

Communication Spectrum

• Collaborating• Moderating• Negotiating• Debating• Commenting• Net meeting, Skyping,

Video Conferencing• Reviewing• Questioning

• Replying• Posting and Blogging• Networking• Contributing• Chatting• E-mailing• Twittering/microblogging• Instant Messaging• Texting

Churches, A. (2009) Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomyhttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Various adaptations of the model

Creating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

LOTS Lower Order Thinking Skills

HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills

designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making, programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-

ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing, broadcasting.

checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, blog commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating,

networking, refactoring, testing.

Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking, media

clipping.

Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing.

Interpreting, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, boolean searches, blog journaling,

twittering, categorising, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing.

Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking,

favouriting/local bookmarking, searching, googling.

Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomy

Churches, A. (2009)

Quiet reflection:

• What would be advantageous to share?

• What should we be careful about sharing?

• Where does this conversation take place with students?

What is the value of being online?

• Can increase access to learning. • Enables and provides support for learning• Can increase the effectiveness of learning• Allows people to connect with each other in spite

of geographical distances/time differences• Complements face to face communication • The opportunity for informal and personal learning• Provides a forum and permission to participate

Adapted from George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org

Why Social Media is important

The power of online connections• maintain connections • develop global connections• ongoing 24/7 networking• opportunity to learn and share• ability to be known and found• six degrees of separation• recruitment/job seeking • develop a personal brand

…and

“Social Media gives more people a voice and provides a powerful tool for value

creation and competitive differentiation”

Advanced Human Technologies 2010

Scaffolded Learning throughPersonal Learning Networks

What is scaffolding used for?

It's not used to support the building, because that must ultimately stand on its own.

No, scaffolding is there to support the building process -

and to support the builders themselves. 

(Wheeler 2009)

Scaffolded Learning - Bruner

“The scaffolding represents the learner's Personal Learning Network (PLN) (to some degree, at least), enabling the learner to

build new knowledge through their interactions with a range of other people and resources…

…social learning fundamentally occurs through our attempts to negotiate meaning with others and recognising holes in our existing knowledge as a

result”. Parslow 2009

A quick look inside my PLN Toolbox

• browse > engage > share > amplify • follow selectively• consider your online 'voice'/identity

@drdjwalker 2011

Where to start?

A PLN for asking and answering questions

A PLN to collaborate on projects and research

A PLN to get feedback on your work or inspiration from others

A PLN may include following blogs and websites

A PLN may include tools to help you get organised

A PLN may also include a private space to reflect

Potential Filtering System

Information need Critical evaluation SelectionCollaborative filtering

Technological algorithmsPersonalised algrorithms (RSS)Social algorithms

Jones and Hafner 2012

(Perkin 2010)

International School Bangkok http://isb21.wikispaces.com/

21st Century Literacy Skills

New Literacies for Networked Individuals

• Graphic literacy e.g. infographics • Navigation literacy i.e. internet geography• Context and connections literacy i.e. PLNs• Focus literacy i.e. time for solitude switch• Multitasking literacy i.e. appliances, people• Scepticism literacy i.e. ‘crap detection’ • Ethical literacy i.e. trust

Rainie and Wellman (2012)

Together creating a safe and scaffolded approach is key to developing the digital skills

both our students and ourselves need

In pairs discuss how a PLN could be of

use to:

• You as an Educator• As a teacher• As a student

15 minutes3 different coloured post-its

Sue BeckinghamEducational Developer

Faculty of ACES

Sheffield Hallam Uni

@suebeckshttp://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckinghamhttp://gplus.to/suebecks