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Social Networking with Our Students:
digital identity, privacy and authenticity
18th April 2012 Catherine CroninPELeCON #pelc12 @catherinecroninImage CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 maistora
“More change will happen in education in the next ten years than in the past one hundred.”
Stephen Heppell (2011)
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“There has been more pedagogic change in the past ten years
than the previous one thousand.” Donald Clark (2011)
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instructor-led → student-led
individual → collaborative
in class → online, open
1 classroom →
authentic learning
Meaningful learning occurs withknowledge construction, not reproduction;conversation, not reception;articulation, not repetition;collaboration, not competition;& reflection, not prescription.
Jonassen, et al (2003) Learning to solve problems with technology: a constructivist perspective.
5 challenges
Challenge students... but honour who and where they are.
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2nd year Professional Skills moduleBSc Computer Science & IT
social media, social networking
+ digital literacies
Forum: @CT231 CT231 circle
Sharing: public & dm public & circles
Tagging: #ct231 #ct231 + #litet
Module sharing links & sharing links &activity: messages reflections
Post- some use v. little usemoduleactivity:
“Recently our class has begun to use more social networking sites like Facebook and tools like DropBox to share notes and keep up to date with lectures. I found this to be a great benefit in studying and managing my work.”
Social media...
#studentvoice
“If a student is working on an assignment and they don’t understand something, who better to ask then to ask the lecturer who set the assignment!
Twitter allows this question to be posted instantly, the lecturer or indeed another student would be very prompt in their response.”
Twitter...
#studentvoice
“Strange putting a face to the voice of my first year maths lecturer!
Khan Academy is possibly one of the most useful sources for students studying maths. The idea is simple, If you don't understand the first time you watch it... watch it again.”
Khan Academy...
#studentvoice
“Changes my view of social networks just being used for mindless chatter. They can actually be useful for research and feedback if used correctly.”
“I would recommend Google+ especially in universities because I had access to all this great reading in relation to technology that people had found, that I would probably never find on my own or read in a book in a library!”
Social networking...
#studentvoice
privacy
digital identity
authenticity
Image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Frederic Poirot
digital identity
Educators need to pay attention to social networking sites as important for the social construction of identity, including personal, social, and learner identity.
- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
Ex-act
name
56%
Nearly
name
19%
Alias
25%
case study: digital identity (Twitter)
Photo (self)33%
Photo (group)22%
Avatar39%
Egg6%
Twitter ID profile photo
Identity construction involves identity play!
Image CC BY-NC 2.0 maria clara de melo
“I was wary about joining a circle of people that I did not know. On Facebook I always make sure that what I post or what I am tagged in will not be seen by people who I do not want to see it.”
“I did not like adding the LIT students because I have never met them.”
#studentvoice
Openness...
“I learned a lot more about writing to the public. Before this I would have been less likely to express my views to a group of people online whereas now I would not have a problem in doing so.”
“By posting publicly it opened up our world to other academics or people who are just interested in the topic... I don’t think anyone would have thought that the author of one of the works we were researching would get involved.”
#studentvoice
Openness...
Although as this was an assignment I felt like your posts were not only being graded by your lecturer but everyone in the circle too. Some people offered their opinion only to just get the assignment done and not to really engage in any conversation on the topic.
authenticity
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“As this was an assignment I felt like your posts were not only being graded by your lecturer but everyone in the circle, too.” “Some people offered their opinion only to just get the assignment done and not to really engage in any conversation on the topic.”
#studentvoice
Grading...
Reflection
“The module was useful and fun, the only complaint was that it was a lot of work. I learned a lot of things and changed some of my own perceptions and habits online. Changes happened from what I learned that I wouldn't ever have thought, like my uptake of Twitter.”
#studentvoice
Final feedback...
Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media.
These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge.
- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)
