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A keynote presentation given at the University of Delaware for the Summer Faculty Institute. More information about the event can be found here: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/may/sfi051309.html The source slides for the presentation are available for download in Keynote format. Please contact [email protected] for the link. See full video of the presentation here: http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1611
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Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning
Dr. Alec Couros2009 Summer Faculty Instituteat the University of Delaware
June 5, 2009
@courosa
Who is this guy?
Open Courses
Knowledge
Knowledge & Computing
Objectivism
Group growth
(Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social Learning
Shifts in Edtech
• 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
open source software
open contentopen access publication
open accreditation
open education
open access courses open teaching
free software
open educational resources
Forms of Openness
Influences
Available Tools
how we view learning - institutional & informal
open content, access, publication, accreditation
Accessible Knowledge
Social Reading
Toward Web 3.0
Social Networks
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.
• networks formed around shared interests & objects.
Social Networks
Human Network
Netbooks - 1:1
Microblogging
Nearly Now
Personal Learning Networks
Daily Connections
My Blog, My Hub
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Musical Connections
Spontaneous PD
Social Network Services
Slide Decks
Copyleft
Media Literacy
• Accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating messages in a variety of forms.
• Enable skillful creators, consumers, and disseminators of media.
• Facilitate an understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and influences of media forms.
Media Literacy
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.
Spread of Media
Viral Videos
Sociality
Disruptive Forms
Surveillance Society
In Practice
Grade One - Expert Visits
Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
Grade Seven/Eight - Classroom Studio
High School Math - Scribe Posts
University History - Twitter
Virtual Office Hours
Mindsets, Skills, Perspectives
lightbulbvs.
ipod
Understanding Media
Impact of Learning Environment
Small Tools, Loosely Joined
Open Invitations
Distributed Conversations
Sharing by Default
Expert Visits
Private Public
Closed Open
Support
Professional Learning
New Roles for Educators
Digital IdentitiesCommunity as Curriculum
Outreach
sustained community
transformative experiences
move toward openness
gained technical skills
media literacies
empathy toward new literacies
greater community
Benefits
“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.”
web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
