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Dr. Alec CourosOLA Super ConferenceOSLA Spotlight SpeakerFebruary 2012Toronto, Ontario
Why Social Networks Matter
#sc12
#libchat
#tlchat
me
Outdated Faculty Profile
The Blur
An Open Educator
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
Open Doctrine
journey(quick version)
Knowledge
knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we know?
• why do we know what we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
human thought/ideas
human language
high-level language(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)
low-level language(assembly language)
machine code(binary)
source code
code irretrievable
@jonmott
Openness
“Open Education is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and
the Worldwide Web in particular provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to
share, use, and reuse knowledge.”(William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
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)
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media shift
Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
Shifts in Media
Shifts in Society
“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/dkuropatwa/4285762190
Consume
Produce
Remix
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
Share
myth of the digital native
Children and young people are described as ‘the collaboration generation’, eager to work together
towards common goals, share content and draw upon “the power of mass collaboration”. This combination of individualisation and collaboration is often presented
as giving young people a propensity to question, challenge and critique. These are individuals who “typically can’t imagine a life where citizens didn’t
have the tools to constantly think critically, exchange views, challenge, authenticate, verify, or debunk.
The Digital Native - Myth & Reality, Selwyn (2009)
Are We To Believe This?
Or This?
Or This?
“... 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.”
Postliterate are “those who can read who choose to meet their primary information and recreational needs through audio, video, graphics, and gaming. Print for
the postliterate is relegated to brief personal messages, short information needs, and other functional, highly
pragmatic uses such as instructions, signage, and time-management device entries - each often highly
supplemented by graphics. The postliterate’s need for extended works or larger amounts of information is met
through visual and/or auditory formats.
Libraries for a Postliterate Society, Johnson (2009)
in practice
Categories of Tools
Blogs & Wikis
Simple Blogging
Microblogging
Social Bookmarking
Info/File Management
Media Sharing
Social Networking
Social Curation
Networks
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
Services
Reputation
“Dear Photograph:Thank you for everything we had.”
Meaningful Projects
Protest
Human Connections
God bless you and your family through this difficult time.
My best attempt, I only removed the tubing, left colors and levels alone. I am sorry for your loss.
I color corrected the skintones a bit as well.
minor lighting, a 6 x 4 crop for printing in standard size &
removed some of the background.
well done fellow redditors !!!!
Hope nobody thinks this is in poor taste... please accept my warmest wishes and deepest sympathy for your loss.
Fixed the
chair
OK black background gone. Sorry it took so long, had to start over. Thanks again to wahoorob for doing the hard part.
Sorry for the late help. I went for simplicity. Enjoy - and I hope you remember her well.
Tools + Networks
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
Example #1: Power Of (Global) Audience
Example #2: Learning Through Networks
Example #3: Teaching/Learning Online
big ideas
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)
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.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/
Sharing
“it’s about overcoming the inner 2 year old in
you that screams mine, mine, it’s mine.”
(Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
On Sharing ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaumedurgell/740880616/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Identity
Best Job in the World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/
Relationships
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
@shareski
http://[email protected]
@courosa
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore