Rethinking Teaching & Learningin a Networked Reality

Dr. Alec Couros - February 2011WESTCast

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who is this guy?

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The Blur

Digital Resident

course participants

Open Doctrine

i. context

ii. inspirations

iii. the road ahead

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context

George Siemens

• “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.”

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Informal Learning

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Access

Search

transition

Mobile Computing

Free & Open Content

FreeTools/Networks

Participatory Media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosauraochoa/3256859352/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Pier 21, 1958

Dad

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The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

media 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

• 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month on Facebook

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html

restrictions

parents as pirates

contrived personalization

viral videos & unintentional fame

pay attention to ...

•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.

•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces @zephoria

danah boyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y

intentional identity

Owing a domain name is about claiming your pieceof the internet. You’re no longer renting, you’re a home owner.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/

Digital Residency/Digital Portfolios

Best Job in the World

Stephen Downes

• “Ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.

On Digital Video

Networks

http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map

Howard Rheingold

• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)

Network Literacies

Howard Rheingold

http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

Politics

Services

Charity

Creative Projects

Human Connections

Personal Learning Network

So Why Not Education?

“networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections

with people and information, and communicating in such a way as to

support one anotherʼs learning.” (Wikipedia)

connections

Crowdsourcing Example #1:

Deconstructed

Crowdsourcing Example #2:

Deconstructed

inspirations

Henry Jenkins

Challenges of Participatory Culture

“How do we ensure that every child has access to skills and experiences need to become a full participant in the social, cultural, economic, and political future of our society?”

@royanlee

Example #1: Transparent Walls

Example #2: Publishing in the Open

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

Example #3: Shared Global Experiences

@glassbeed@langwitches @hdurnin

Example #4: Making It Relevant

@danikabarker

Example #5: Meaningful Connections

@courosa

Example #6: Rethinking Classroom Time

@karlfisch

Example #7: PD Anytime, Anywhere

Example #8: New Ways of Knowing

@kathycassidy

Example #9: Connecting to Experts

Example #10: Learning/Sharing in the Open

@christianlong

there are thousands of examples

but this is not the norm

the road ahead

Will Richardson

• “What happens to traditional concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now learn anything, anywhere, anytime?”

21st Century Learning

Embrace Our Reality

Connect with Others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

Create a Culture of Sharing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/admitchell08/2574455073

Let Go Of Control

Private Public

Closed Open

Shift

“We need to move beyond the idea that education is something that is

provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that

we create ourselves.”

(Downes, 2010)

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@courosa

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born

in another time. ~Tagore