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Open & Collaborative Learning How Social Networks Can Transform Education Dr. Alec Couros April 2010 Southwestern Community College Sylva, North Carolina

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A presentation for Southwestern Community College, Sylva, North Carolina.

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Open & Collaborative Learning

How Social Networks Can Transform Education

Dr. Alec CourosApril 2010Southwestern Community CollegeSylva, North Carolina

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Who is this guy?

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risk

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“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)

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my blog, my hub

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photo sharing

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video sharing

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social networking services

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content sharing

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copyleft

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open cv

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open teaching

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changes

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Free Tools

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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)

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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

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Ubiquity

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Personal Learning Networks

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context

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Each technology creates a new environment.

The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.

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Mario Couros

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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

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Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

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David Wiley

@opencontent

Then vs Now

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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David Wiley

@opencontent

Education vs Everyday

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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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

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• 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

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practice

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connecting educators

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Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

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Grade 6 - Global Connections

@zbpipe

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Around the World - 80 Schools

@langwitches

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Highschool - Youtube Channel

@amhwrites

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HigherEd - Open Courses

eci831.wikispaces.com

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Professional Identities

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PD Gone Wild

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Real-time search

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Real-time collaboration

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Real-time streaming

ps22chorus.blogspot.com

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Thinning Walls

Private Public

Closed Open

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designing 4 openness

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if you build it ...

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non-credit students

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social affordance

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distributed conversations

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culture of sharing

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global classroom

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why this matters?

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Disruptive media

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Social Learning

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New Possibilities

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Power of Openness

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Disruptive Education

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Drive to Connect

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new possibilities for

@willrich45

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“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with

“The best part of the course is that it’s not

ending. With the connections we’ve built, it never has to end.”

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“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.”

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this is not going away

new possibilities for

social media provides engagement/motivation

development of meaningful learning communities

incredible possibilities for teaching and learning

good teaching is shared & transparent

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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another

time. ~Tagore