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Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning Dr. Alec Couros University of Regina November 2009

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Slides from a keynote I gave at the McGraw Hill Teaching & Learning conference held at UOIT in Oshawa, Ontario, November, 2009.

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Harnessing the Power of Social Networksin Teaching & Learning

Dr. Alec CourosUniversity of ReginaNovember 2009

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Who is this guy?

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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 Network Services

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Content Sharing

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Copyleft

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Open Teaching

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knowledge

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• 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

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Knowledge

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Objectivism

Group growth

(Schwier)(Leinonen)

Individual growth

Cognitivism

Constructivism

Social Learning

Changes in Edtech

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David Wiley(Brigham Young University)

@opencontent

Then vs Now

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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David Wiley(Brigham Young University)

@opencontent

Education vs Everyday

Analog Digital

Tethered Mobile

Isolated Connected

Generic Personal

Consumption Creating

Closed Open

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open source software

open contentopen access publication

open accreditation

open education

open access courses open teaching

free software

open educational resources

Forms of Openness

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how we view learning - institutional & informal

open content, access, publication, accreditation

Available Knowledge

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Power & Control

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Power & Control

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Social Tools

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social networks & media

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• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.

• enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community.

• networks form around shared interests & objects.

Social Networks

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Old World Networks

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Mario Couros

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Mediated Reality

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Twitter in 60 Seconds

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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.

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Access

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Ubiquity

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Social Reading

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Trusted Groups

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The Way We Were

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Rise of the PLN

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@jonmott

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@jonmott

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designing for 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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PD Gone Wild!

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Professional Identities

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New Roles for Educators

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Private Public

Closed Open

Thinning Walls

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Trust(human kind is mostly good)

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View on Society?

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“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

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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”.

The Machine is (Changing) Us(Personal Democracy Forum)

@mwesch

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Heroes for our Mediated Culture

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via @mcleod

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@smartinez

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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

Living & Learning with Social Media(Penn State address)

@zephoria

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“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.”

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• 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

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In Practice

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Grade Five - Choir on Youtube

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Grade Six - Global Connections

@zbpipe

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Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding

@glassbeed

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University History - Twitter

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Virtual Office Hours

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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 everyone.”

“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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• 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

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

in another time. ~Tagore