toward networked literacies
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Presentation on networked literacies for Literacy GAINS Summer Camp, Parry Sound Ontario.A mashup of several presentations with a new twist around literacy.TRANSCRIPT
Toward Networked Literacies Literacy GAINS Summer Camp August 2010 Parry Sound Ontario
Dr. Alec Couros
me
my blog, my hub
microblogging
photosharing
videosharing
social networking services
content sharing
open teaching
- our point of perspective as a learner, where our knowledge & experience is situated (to reveal what I am blind to or able to see).
- our point of intersection through multiple contexts, world views, personal & professional relationships.
- our point of privilege and access to knowledge & experience.
- our point of power when forming, managing, and maintaining relationships.
- our point of personalization as learning & memory are tied to emotion (my attempt to build my rapport and connection with you).
why begin at “me”?
(short version)
“People donʼt buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)
shift
“Tell me ... what it is I am educating and what sort of world we live in, and I will tell you what I
am aiming at.”(Garforth, 1962)
Knowledge
• 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?
Questions
Free/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)
Media
connected reality
Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
media 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.
Networks
“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important
literacies of the 21st century.”(Rheingold, 2010)
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
social networks
crowd sourcing content
real time collaboration
issues
Inappropriate Content
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy
“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
Verifiability
Identity
“You are not Facebookʼs customer. you are the product
that they sell to real customers - advertisers. Forget this at your
peril.”(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)
Citizenship
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
strategies/practice
“...the set of abilities and skills where aural, visual, & digital overlap. These include the ability to understand the
power of images & sounds, to recognize & use that power, to manipulate &
transform them pervasively, & to easily adapt to new forms.”
(New Media Consortium, 2005, on ʻnew literaciesʼ)
- new media are texts
- information is abundant
- surge of multimodal/multimedia expression
- authorship increasingly complex
- social contexts collapsing
- potential audience expanding
- social connections important
- technology tends to be deterministic
- digital reputation management vital to citizenry
- wayfinding, sensemaking, curation, participation, production vital to literacy
assumptions(short version)
pay attention to ...
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces @zephoria
danah boyd
coding competence(the ability to decode texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
semantic competence(the ability to make meaning)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
pragmatic competence(functional literacy)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
Professional Identities
http://mediagirl.org/node/1535
critical competence(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)
“Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to
sensations and cheap appeals.”(Trevelyan, 1942)
human literacies
“Literacies nourish each other. One literacy helps another to grow. Literacies contain each other and require each other.”
(Sheridan, 2000)
• As we “move toward an environment of instant & infinite information ... we need to move from bring simple knowledgeable to knowledge-able.”
• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.
@mwesch
Michael Wesch
“Heroes for our Mediated Culture”
“... the practice of freedom, the means by which men & women deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to participate in the transformation
of their world”(Freire, 1970)
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