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Building a Networked Identity !!!!!!!!
How to Become a Connected Educator #wweopen13
Who do you want to be when you grow up?
Wrong question.
What do you want to contribute?
• What are your strengths?
• What brought you into education?
• What kind of work puts you in a state of flow?
• What do you want to be known for? h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/2nker-‐tailor/8378048032/sizes/z/
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless,
impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and
with each other.” - Friere, The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, p. 244
Education = Multiple axes of change
knowledge scarcity
knowledge abundance
open
public funding
markets
closed
Increasing pressure to go online
h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/10728008326
Twitter = currently the most open network
Personal/Professional Learning Networks
Image: @Courosa
Networks are not about online/offline binaries
h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/5824384001/sizes/z/
Networked identities are hybrid identities
Networks are not just about new tools, but new literacies
h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/rofi/2647699204/
Differing sensibilities & legitimacy practices
Institutions Networks product-focused process-focused mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = world
Who are we when we’re online? …
Ourselves. Amplified.
Engaged in visible identity work.
Always Multiple
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/
Always Faceted
A personal/professional hybrid does NOT mean
no public/private distinction personal
professional private
public
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100
2006 2008 2010 2012 present
personal/professional
public/private
The Performative Self
Bring identity into being: lather, rinse, repeat your contributions
The Quantified Self
The Participatory Self
(connections and comments build ties: ties are persistent, replicable, scalable & searchable)
The Asynchronous Self
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vylen/6158720720/
The Augmented Self “The mistake of early internet theorists was their assumption that The Web provided an alternate
space in which social actors were free to be who they wanted, rather than who they were...
In addition to knowing who we are by seeing what we do, we also know who we are by seeing how others
respond to us. As such, our ideal selves can only manifest to the extent to which our networks allow it. ”
- Jenny Davis h#p://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/11/04/re-‐imagined-‐authen2city/
The Surveilled Self
“The internet is on principle a system that you reveal yourself to in order to fully enjoy, which differentiates it from, say, a music player. It is a TV that watches you.”
- Edward Snowden, in The Washington Post
The Branded “Me, Inc.” Self
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/4880623547
…that awkward moment when you remember you friended your grandma on Facebook.
Or that your students – or your VP, or your new boss – follow you on Twitter.
Context Collapse
Digital Selves = Public
l Aware of being watched
l Aware of scale of attention
l Build identity by repetition
l Build ties by visible communications
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2755774089/
Benefits as learner & scholar: access, engagement, profile
Benefits as teacher: opportunities to connect & convey info in new media
Benefits as writer: real audiences
Benefits as thinker: emergent, choral conversation
• Signal intentionally • Signal to build up others, not just yourself
• Signal broadly • Signal patiently
• Signal what you want to contribute
What Do Your Signals Say?