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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.

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

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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