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Harnessing the Power of Social Networksin Teaching & Learning
Dr. Alec CourosUniversity of ReginaNovember 2009
Who is this guy?
“Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research,
teaching, and services 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, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)
My Blog, My Hub
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Social Network Services
Content Sharing
Copyleft
Open Teaching
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?
Key Questions
Knowledge
Objectivism
Group growth
(Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social Learning
Changes in Edtech
David Wiley(Brigham Young University)
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley(Brigham Young University)
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
open source software
open contentopen access publication
open accreditation
open education
open access courses open teaching
free software
open educational resources
Forms of Openness
how we view learning - institutional & informal
open content, access, publication, accreditation
Available Knowledge
Power & Control
Power & Control
Social Tools
social networks & media
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
Social Networks
A Connected Reality
Old World Networks
Mario Couros
Mediated Reality
Twitter in 60 Seconds
Each technology creates a new environment.
The old environment becomes content for
the new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their form
not their content.
Access
Ubiquity
Real Time Web
Social Reading
Trusted Groups
The Way We Were
Rise of the PLN
@jonmott
@jonmott
designing for openness
If you build it ...
Non-Credit Students
Social Affordance
Distributed Conversations
Culture of Sharing
Global Classroom
Invisible Colleges
PD Gone Wild!
Professional Identities
New Roles for Educators
Private Public
Closed Open
Thinning Walls
Trust(human kind is mostly good)
View on Society?
“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
• 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”.
The Machine is (Changing) Us(Personal Democracy Forum)
@mwesch
Heroes for our Mediated Culture
via @mcleod
@smartinez
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
Living & Learning with Social Media(Penn State address)
@zephoria
“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.”
• Scottish teen who participates in my open, online grad course.
• Creative, motivated, independent, connected, respectful, cognizant and intentional in managing his digital identity.
Bassman_Sean(Scotland)
@bassman_sean
In Practice
Grade One - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy
Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Grade Six - Global Connections
@zbpipe
Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding
@glassbeed
Beaver Country Day School - mashUp
University History - Twitter
Virtual Office Hours
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built,
it never has to end.”
“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to critique & review my
practice. I never knew how important social networks were. Now, I couldn’t be a teacher without being
connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”
• The future of learning is open, connected, & social.
• Learning networks redefine how knowledge is created, distributed & controlled.
• Meaningful learning is fostered through distributed networks based on trust.
The Big Ideas
web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore