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Slides from the keynote presentation given at the Shaw Centre in Edmonton Alberta for the Central East Alberta Teacher's Convention.
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Disrupting SchoolLearning in the 21st Century
Dr. Alec Couros - March 9, 2012Central East Alberta Teacher’s Convention
me
Who Am I?
The Blur
my students
memories of media past
Gaming
Music
Computing
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Web 1.0
current context
Mobile Reality
ParticipatoryMedia
“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.”
enabled by the same affordances
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
networks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAD8BOBOhw
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
memes
“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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Condescending Willy Wonka
Condescending Willy Wonka
Scumbag Steve
Scumbag Steve
Unhelpful Highschool Teacher
Unhelpful Highschool Teacher
“...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
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
info/media literacy
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what does it mean when you like something?
digital fluency
Framework for Student Learning, Government of Alberta (2011)
“Technological fluency means much more than the ability to use technological tools;
that would be equivalent to understanding a few common phrases in a language. To become truly fluent in a language (like
English or French), one must be able to articulate a complex idea or tell an engaging story -- that is, to be able to make things of
significance with these tools. ”
The Computer Clubhouse: Technology Fluency in the Inner City, Resnick, Rusk, & Cooke (1998)
The Difference Between Digital Literacy & Digital Fluency, C. Briggs (2011)
“... our ability to use digital technologies to have the intended positive effect on people & situations.”
The Difference Between Digital Literacy & Digital Fluency, C. Briggs (2011)
“... the more fluent a person is, the better they are able to predict the outcome of their actions.”
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.”
Justin Bieber
“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility
of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute and hating
the work.”
“parents spotted Facebook comments she wrote describing
students as ‘germ bags’ and parents as ‘snobby’ and arrogant.”
inspirations
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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
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“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.”
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conclusion
21st Century Readers/Writers Must ...• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology.
• Build relationships with others to pose & solve problems collaboratively and cross culturally.
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes.
• Manage, analyze, & synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information.
• Create, critique, an analyze multimedia texts.
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.
NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriulum & Assessment (2007)
Lead Learner
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
Network Sherpa
http://[email protected]
@courosa
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
