enacting digital identities

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Exploring digital literacies with our students means that we must we willing to reflect on our own digital practices and digital identity/identities. This presentation describes how an undergraduate module for IT students was designed and structured so that students could explore, develop and reflect on digital literacies, digital identity and related issues such as privacy and authenticity in networked publics.

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Enacting Digital IdentitiesCatherine Cronin • @catherinecronin • #pelc13 • 11/04/13

@catherinecronin

slideshare.net/cicronin

REFLECT digital identity

SHARECT231 experiences

DISCUSSpractices & resources

CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC

REFLECT digital identity

SHARECT231 experiences

DISCUSSpractices & resources

CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC

CC images: foto_mania. catherinecronin

#pelc11

@simfin @sharonlflynn & @boyledsweetie

Image CC BY-NC 2.0 owaie89

“More change will happen in education in the next 10 years

than in the past 100.” -- @stephenheppell

Coder Dojo

#CoderDojo

#DojoCon

1st xMOOC

Coursera,Udacity, edX

xMOOCs / cMOOCs

Google+

Summer 2011

digital literacies

social media

digital identity

Knowledge of digital tools

Critical thinking

Social engagement

Definition by Tabetha Newman, adapted by Josie Fraser http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2012/03/digital-literacy-practice.html

definition of digital literacies

8 essential elements of digital literacies

1. Cultural 5. Confident

2. Cognitive 6. Creative

3. Constructive 7. Critical

4. Communicative 8. Civic

Definition by Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/03/10/tedxwarwick-the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies/

Image: corners311

Enmeshed between ATOMS and

BITS...

It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life.

Nathan Jurgenson (2012)The IRL Fetish

...our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits.

Nathan Jurgenson (2011)@nathanjurgenson

Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality

“If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face... [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting thenegotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practices.”

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1

Etienne WengerSRHE Conference 2010 Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice

in deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader

REFLECT digital identity

SHARECT231 experiences

DISCUSSpractices & resources

CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC

CC images: KayVee.INC, Susan NYC, Jason A. Howie

Search & ResearchDigital & Social

Media

Communication

CT231 – Professional Skills

• search• filters• sources• referencing & linking• copyright & Creative

Commons

• digital identity• privacy• social bookmarks• social networks• Personal

Learning Networks (PLNs)

• writing• presenting• publishing• curating• teams/communities

ct231.wordpress.com

Meaningful learning occurs withknowledge construction, not reproduction;conversation, not reception;articulation, not repetition;collaboration, not competition;& reflection, not prescription.

Jonassen, et al (2003) Learning to solve problems with technology: a constructivist perspective

Image: CC BY 2.0 joi

Howard Rheingold@hrheingold rheingold.com

Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds

networked publics

danah boyd@zephoriadanah.org

space constructed through

networked technologies

the imagined collective which emerges

(people + tech + practice)

Image: uvenus.org

digital identities

Bonnie Stewart@bonstewarttheory.cribchronicles.com

6 Key Selves of Networked Publics:• Performative Self• Quantified Self• Participatory Self• Asynchronous Self• Enmeshed Self• Neoliberal Self

CT231: Twitter usernames (n=46)

Exact name37%

Other name17%

“Nearly” name46%

CT231: Twitter profile pictures (n=46)

Photo (self)26%

Photo (group)

11%Avatar28%

Egg35%

Identity construction involves identity play!

Image CC BY-NC 2.0 maria clara de melo

Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Ed Yourdon

#icollab

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Frank Wuestefeld

privacy

“Nowadays people have to be extremely careful

with the information they put on the internet

because they never know who is reading it.

On social network you have to be careful with

who you follow, who follows you, and who your

friends are.”

#studentvoice

Privacy

Image CC BY-NC-ND Will Foster

“On Facebook it gives very little information on me

as my profile is private to unknown persons.

My Twitter account will show a purely educational

social aspect, as I only joined Twitter when we

started using it in conjunction with our subject.

My YouTube account is completely anonymous as

my username has no connection to my actual

name.”

#studentvoice

Privacy

“Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter

mainly just for keeping in contact with people,

but since have discovered they both have much

more to offer. They are places to discover new

information and boost your knowledge. That both

education and socialising can be rolled into one, and

you can discover so much about people in the world

by just following them.”

#studentvoice

Social Media

“I have learnt that social media/social networks are

not just to be used as a distraction for not getting

work done but can be used as an aid to get the work

done. Social media/social networks can provide

useful tools to help with academic learning.”

#studentvoice

Social Media

Different contexts have different legitimacy practices

Academic Learning Networked Learning

product-focused process-focused

institutionally-directed self-directed

mastery participation

bounded by time/space always accessible

hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties

plagiarism crowdsourcing

authority in role authority in reputation

audience = teacher audience = world

CC BY-NC-SA Bonnie Stewart Digital Identities: Who Are We in a Networked Public?

openness • social media • student voice/choice

3 tenets of my teaching

openness • social media • student voice/choice

AIM:

choose openness

where possible & where appropriate

USE

CREATE

SHARE

open resources

create to share, CC-licensed

openly, including my/our own learning

openness • social media • student voice/choice

AIM:

enable connection and learning

across the (artificial) boundaries

of time and space

TIME... class time, term time, academic year

SPACE... classrooms, labs, desks, buildings

openness • social media • student voice/choice

AIM:

use as many opportunities as possible

for students to Choose & to Create

TOPICS

MEDIA RUBRICS

ASSESSMENT

TOOLS ...

REFLECT digital identity

SHARECT231 experiences

DISCUSSpractices & resources

CC images: Frederic Poirot, EoinGardiner, Susan NYC

Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media.

These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge.

- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)

How much of your digital identity do you share with your students?

How does using social & participatory mediachange power relations between students

and teachers/lecturers, if at all?

What are the biggest challenges in using social media in formal education, for students, for educators, for institutions?

Thank you!Catherine Cronin

@catherinecronin

slideshare.net/cicronin

about.me/catherinecronin

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