Break Down the Walls
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This document discusses how social networks and openness are transforming teaching and learning. It highlights how tools like social media allow academics to more openly share their work and connect with peers and students. It also discusses the rise of open access to information, open journal publishing models, and how knowledge is becoming more freely shared. The document advocates for more open and connected models of teaching that take advantage of global online learning networks and communities.
Break Down the Walls
- 1. Break Down the Walls How Social Networks & Openness Are Transforming Teaching & Learning Dr. Alec Couros - June 13, 2012 University of Victoria
- 2. #tietalk
- 3. me
- 5. The Blur
- 14. “Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service 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, Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
- 15. Open Teaching
- 17. Open Journal
- 18. “The Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it -- at any stage of its development.” (Burton, G., 2009)
- 19. “People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.” (2010) @simonsinek
- 21. 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?
- 22. human thought/ideas human language source code high-level language (e.g. C++, Java, PERL) low-level language (assembly language) code irretrievable machine code (binary)
- 24. “Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected by only tenuous strands of the Internet.” (Raymond, 1997)
- 25. “Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance .... Abundance makes command relationships difficult to sustain and exchange relationships an almost pointless game. In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control, but by what you give away. (1997) @esrtweet
- 27. changes
- 35. “60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.” “Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.” “Over 800 million unique users visit Youtube every month.” “More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”
- 37. 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)
- 39. “Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water... There’s no competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” (2012) @drtonywagner
- 40. open access
- 41. From NAGPS (2011) via h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut
- 42. From NAGPS (2011) via h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut
- 43. From NAGPS (2011) via h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut
- 44. “Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There a button that says “publish”, and when you press it, it’s done.” (Shirky, C.., 2012)
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- 52. networks
- 54. Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010) Howard Rheingold
- 59. Community
- 60. Crowdsourcing
- 61. Remix
- 62. Kutiman-Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chords http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
- 63. Meaningful Projects “Dear Photograph:Thank you for everything we had.”
- 65. @shareski
- 66. memes “The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus” Lowenstein, 1999
- 70. “...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one is, someone is watching and recording.” Zack Whitaker
- 81. MYOB Learning
- 82. shifts in edtech Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism (Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning
- 83. @jonmott
- 84. “A key to transformation is for the teaching profession to establish innovation networks that capture the spirit and culture of hackers - the passion, the can-do, collective sharing.” ~ Hargreaves, 2003
- 91. “To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I consider it my ‘main’ teacher.” “10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping (the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
- 92. Matt Kirk Nick
- 99. how are you making learning visible?
- 100. how are you contributing to the learning of others?
- 101. Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open
- 102. #eci831
- 103. open teaching
- 104. network mentors
- 105. non-credit students
- 107. aggregation
- 109. microblogging
- 110. shared resources
- 111. social curation
- 112. “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.”
- 113. What We Learned • Open access, low-cost, high impact. • Courses become shared, global, learning events. • Students immersed in a greater learning community. • Value in open spaces vs. walled gardens. • Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students. • Pedagogy focused on connecting & interactions. • Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
- 115. conclusion
- 119. Text
- 120. “The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in which people and institutions are connected. It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated @barrywellman social networks.” (2002)
- 122. fixed to place fixed to person
- 123. “The person has become the portal.” Wellman (2002)
- 125. Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa
- 126. extras
- 130. @dlnorman
- 131. @giuliaforsythe
- 132. @noiseprofessor @noiseprofessor
- 133. @noiseprofessor
- 134. @timlauer