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Dr. Alec Couros Saskatchewan IT Summit 2012 Saskatoon, SK May 7, 2012 The Power of Networks And Why It Matters to Education
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Dr. Alec CourosSaskatchewan IT Summit 2012Saskatoon, SKMay 7, 2012
The Power of NetworksAnd Why It Matters to Education
#itsummit12
me
Who Am I?
The Blur
memories of media past
Gaming
Multi-Player
Piracy
Adaptation
Personalization
Troubleshooting
Mobile
Edtech
Web 1.0
changes in media
“55. New Kids have always been known as NKOTB.
“57. They’ve often broken up with significant others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.”
“1. There has always been an Internet ramp on the Information Highway”
mobile
Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
tools
content
“60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is
uploaded to Youtube every second.”
“Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.”
“Over 800 million unique users visit Youtube every month.”
“More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks
created in 60 years.”
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)
@drtonywagner
“Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water...
There’s no competitive advantage in knowing
more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is
what you can do with what you know.” (2012)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
“... age is not a determining factor in students’ digital lives; rather, their familiarity and experience using ICTs is more relevant.”
“... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate: those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation growing up to replace an older analogue generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by access and opportunity.”
from ...
to ...
literacy
info/media literacy(digital) identitynetwork literacy
info/media literacy
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“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”
Lowenstein, 1999
memes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
“...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker
what does it mean when you like something?
(digital) identity
“The average digital birth of children happens at about 6 months.”
“In Canada, US, UK, France Italy, Germany & Spain ... 81% of children under the age of two have some kind
of digital profile or footprint.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/
network literacy
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
Politics
Service Data
Crowdsourcing
@dlnorman
@giuliaforsythe
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@timlauer
Remix
social learning
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
#skteachers
#edchat
#comments4kids
Techno-Social Affordances
• How does ‘digital’ (instant, shareable, replicable, findable, remixable, networked, open) reshape teaching & learning?
• What does it mean to be connected (locally, globally)?
• Who are my teachers? Who are my students?
learning in the open
“To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
Nick
MattKirk
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
how are you making learning visible?
how are you contributing to the learning of others?
conclusion
@barrywellman
“The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in
which people and institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated
social networks.” (2002)
fixed to place
fixed to person
“The person has become the portal.”
Wellman (2002)
how do we get there when ...
What We Need Now
• Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD.
• Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both through infrastructure & mindset.
• Plan, develop & support provincial digital fluency strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing.
• Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities through this transition.
http://[email protected]
@courosa
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
