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"Open & Collaborative Learning: How Social Networks are Transforming Education" - a presentation for Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool.
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Open & Collaborative Learning
How Social Networks Are Transforming Education
Dr. Alec CourosMarch 2010For Saskatoon Cyberschool
changes
context
Each technology creates a new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.
connected reality
quick 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
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
@zephoria
danah boyd
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.
@mwesch
Michael Wesch
enablers(for connected learning)
“A key to transformation is for the teaching
profession to establish innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do,
collective sharing.” ~ ~Hargreaves
F/OSS Movement
Free Tools
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)
Open Access
“The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible
to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)
open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events
Ubiquity
Personal Learning Networks
that are enhanced by ...
Real-time search
Real-time collaboration
Real-time streaming
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
that help to create ...
Disruptive media
Social Learning
Disruptive Education
practice
connecting educators
@kathycassidy
Grade 1 - Expert Visits
Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
Grade 6 - Global Connections
@zbpipe
Highschool - Youtube Channel
@amhwrites
HigherEd - Open Courses
eci831.wikispaces.com
Professional Identities
PD Gone Wild
Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open
why this matters?
new possibilities for
@willrich45
this is not going away
new possibilities for
social media provides engagement/motivation
ethical responsibility of schools
incredible possibilities for teaching and learning
good teaching is shared & transparent
web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros
couros@gmail.com
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another
time. ~Tagore
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