Network Literacy 101

Dr. Alec CourosEDST499k - 2010

me

Who is this guy?

my blog, my hub

microblogging

photosharing

videosharing

social networking services

content sharing

open cv

open teaching

Course Trailer

non-credit students

shift

Projections/Focus

Projections/Focus

Converging Media

Visitors vs. Residents

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

David Weinberger

@dweinberger

The Web is “a world of pure

connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of

matter, distance and time.”

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

Each technology creates a new environment.

The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.

affordances

Free Tools

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)

Abundance

Beyond Institution

New Possibilities

Realtime Collaboration

Disruptive Creativity

Distributed Creativity

Disruptive Education

issues

Innapropriate Content

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy

“Some of the comments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.”

(Lev Grossman)@leverus

Verifiability

Identity

Citizenship

Kyle Doyle is not going to work today, f*** it, I’m still

trashed. SICKIE WOO

Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the

utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose

and hating the work

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

“heroes for our mediated culture”

personalization

Mediating Experiences

locks

parents as pirates

personalizing the institution

the reality

in practice

Personal Learning Networks

connections

@kathycassidy

Expert Visits

@kathycassidy

Transparent Learning

Sharing/Inspiring

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

Global Mentoring

Student Portfolios

Open Learning

recommendations

considering information flow

•blogging & RSS

•use of SMS (txt’ing)

•microblogging (Twitter)

•rich media like Youtube or podcasts

•student or interdepartmental partnerships

augment relationships

•e-mentoring

•use of existing social networks (Facebook), but beware the “creepy treehouse”.

•in-house social networking service

•Twitter as personality

•Web-conferencing (Skype)

•videostream of live classes/sessions.

professional collaboration

•use of collaborative tools (e.g., Google Docs)

•social network for academic advisors for pro. learning (in and beyond the province)

•increase personal and professional learning opportunities

important

social media is about enhancing relationships - it is not about the tools - it is about

personal investment in our students and in

ourselves

*this* is not going away

social media provides engagement/motivation

development of meaningful learning communities

incredible possibilities for student engagement

geographies become nearly irrelevant in a open, connected reality.

final thoughts

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