ECS100 Presentation
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Dr. Alec Couros discusses the transformation of teaching and learning in a networked reality, highlighting the impact of Web 2.0 tools and social media on academic practices. He emphasizes the importance of building online academic identities and trust within learning networks, which can foster meaningful connections and collaboration among students and educators. The document asserts that the future of learning is open, connected, and social, reshaping how knowledge is created and shared.
ECS100 Presentation
- 1. Rethinking Teaching & Learning in a Networked Reality Dr. Alec Couros ECS 100
- 2. Who is this guy?
- 6. My Blog, My Hub
- 10. Content Sharing
- 11. Copyleft
- 12. “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)
- 13. social networks & media
- 14. Social Networks • redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography. • enable learning, communication, sharing, connections, collaboration, community. • networks form around shared interests & objects.
- 17. Mario Couros
- 18. Mediated Reality
- 20. Twitter in 60 Seconds
- 21. Each technology creates a new environment. The old environment becomes content for the new environment. The effects of media come from their form not their content.
- 22. The Way We Were
- 23. David Wiley (Brigham Young University) Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 24. David Wiley (Brigham Young University) Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
- 25. Rise of the PLN
- 26. trust
- 27. easy trust
- 28. humankind is mostly good
- 29. View on Society?
- 32. “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.” @leverus (Lev Grossman)
- 34. The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (TED Talk) @zittrain • Technical infrastructure of the web. • Wikipedia’s content & form • ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through Internet-facilitated kindness, collaboration, & sharing.
- 36. The Machine is (Changing) Us (Personal Democracy Forum) • 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”. @mwesch
- 37. Heroes for our Mediated Culture
- 38. “The invention of the alphabet and the resulting intensification of the visual sense in the communication process gave sight priority over hearing, but the effect was so powerful that it went beyond communication through language to reshape literate society’s conception and use of space.” (Gordon re: Mcluhan)
- 40. via @mcleod
- 41. via @shareski
- 44. i can haz internetz
- 45. @smartinez
- 47. Living & Learning with Social Media (Penn State address) 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, @zephoria collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
- 48. “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.”
- 50. Bassman_Sean (Scotland) • 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
- 51. in practice
- 52. Grade One - Expert Visits @kathycassidy
- 53. Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
- 54. Grade Six - Global Connections @zbpipe
- 55. Grade Seven/Eight - Class Branding @glassbeed
- 56. Beaver Country Day School - mashUp
- 59. pay attention to ...
- 60. Access
- 61. Ubiquity
- 62. Real Time Web
- 63. RT Search
- 64. RT Collaboration
- 65. RT Streaming
- 66. Social Reading
- 67. Trusted Groups
- 68. New Roles for Educators
- 70. Professional Development Gone Wild!
- 71. Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open
- 73. The Big Ideas • The future of learning is open, connected, & social. • Learning networks redefine how knowledge is created, distributed & controlled. • Meaningful learning can be fostered through informal learning networks.
- 74. Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore web: couros.ca twitter: courosa google: couros alec.couros@uregina.ca