charlie bit my finger and why it really, really matters
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Presentation for the University of Alberta Tech Fair, March 25th, 2011 by Alec Couros and Dean Shareski. Presentation focuses on the way social media and technology are changing the role and function of teachersTRANSCRIPT
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Charlie Bit My Finger
And Why It Really, Really MattersUniversity of Alberta
Technology Fair March 25, 2010
Alec Couros and
Dean Shareski
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@courosa
couros.ca
@shareski
shareski.ca
Alec Couros Dean Shareski
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“The only problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory it would never work” Miikos Ryokas
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“If you think our future will require better schools, you're wrong. The future of education calls for entirely new kinds of learning environments.If you think we will need better teachers, you're wrong.
Tomorrow’s learners will need guides who take on fundamentally different roles.”
http://www.futureofed.org/
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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comment (1) Reads 4
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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comment (1) Reads 4
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Do I have to keep this?
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Athletic Stages
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Artistic Stages
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Academic stages?
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What did you learn from others?
How did you contribute to the learning of others?
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What’s so good about face to face?
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Homework at School
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What’s so good about face to face?
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Learning Anytime, Anywhere ...
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With Anyone (eg. 1)
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With Anyone (eg. 2)
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With Anyone (eg. 3)
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With Anyone (eg. 4)
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With Anyone (eg. 5)
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Personal Learning Network
PLN/PLE
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New Roles
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Ze Frank
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Ze Frank
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Private vs.Public
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You are what you share
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What’s a reflective practitioner?
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My blog reminds me that I'm boneheaded and tin-eared. My blog represents me not as an edited professional voice, but as a human being struggling to express ideas, thoughts, reactions, dreams, and general b.s. via a means that uncompromisingly allows for the immediate feedback of strangers and fellow wanderers.
Shelley Blake-Pollock@teachpaperless
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But blogging was the cheapest, most risk-free investment I could have made of my personal time into my job. You start by writing down things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And then you start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart,
and dialoging over them with strangers. Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to correspond to periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You start to muse on your job when you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort
of thing. That transformation has been nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot blog.
Dan Meyer@ddmeyer
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Full Time Crap Detectors
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Media Competency
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51cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/
The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly
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Doing It Well
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Doing It Well
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Not So Well
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
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Not So Well
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Networks of Trust
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Beautiful Collaboration
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Who Benefits?
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Social Glue
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Social Glue
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Are you a text snob?
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The Power of the Pictograph
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Ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It's a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.
Stephen Downes@downes
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Consumption Creation
Reading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing
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Consumption Creation
ReadingListening
Viewing
WritingSpeaking
Representing
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Consumption Creation
ReadingListening
Viewing
WritingSpeaking
Representing
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“With a digital projector waiting back in my classroom, I can't help looking for interesting, relevant images to put in front of my class. A digital projector shrinks the time-gap between my learning moment and theirs. A digital projector has effectively buried the difference between What Fascinates Me and What I Teach.” Dan Meyer
Dan Meyer@ddmeyer
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“The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't”
“...the professional language of the future”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/movies/06vann.html
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Big Finish
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Thanks