The document discusses how networks and connectivity are reshaping education. It notes that more video is uploaded to YouTube every month than the major US television networks created in 60 years. Knowledge is now freely available online like air or water. While age is not a determining factor, access and opportunities create a digital divide. Network literacy including understanding how networks work is an important 21st century skill. Learning is becoming more open and social through networks, with learners gaining knowledge from many online sources rather than just educators. The paradigm is shifting from isolated learning to learning through diverse social networks.
22. â55. New Kids have always
been known as NKOTB.
â1. There has always been an Internet
ramp on the Information Highwayâ
â57. Theyâve often broken up with signiďŹcant
others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.â
36. â60 hours of video are uploaded every
minute, or one hour of video is
uploaded to Youtube every second.â
âOver 4 billion videos are viewed a day.â
âOver 800 million unique users visit
Youtube every month.â
âMore video is uploaded to YouTube in
one month that the 3 major US networks
created in 60 years.â
37. Free/Open Content
âdescribes 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, ďŹrm, or
individual.â (Wikipedia)
38.
39. âToday knowledge is free.
Itâs like air, itâs like water...
Thereâs no competitive
advantage in knowing
more than the person next
to you. The world doesnât
care what you know. What
the world cares about is
what you can do with what
you know.â (2012)
@drtonywagner
41. â... age is not a determining factor in
studentsâ digital lives; rather, their familiarity
and experience using ICTs is more relevant.â
â... the notion of âdigital nativesâ is inaccurate:
those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation
growing up to replace an older analogue
generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by
access and opportunity.â
53. memes
âThe gene has itâs 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 virusâ
Lowenstein, 1999
56. â...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.â
Zack Whitaker
67. âThe average digital birth of children
happens at about 6 months.â
âIn Canada, US, UK, France Italy,
Germany & Spain ... 81% of children
under the age of two have some kind
of digital proďŹle or footprint.â
108. Techno-Social Affordances
⢠How does âdigitalâ (instant, shareable,
replicable, ďŹndable, remixable, networked,
open) reshape teaching & learning?
⢠What does it mean to be connected (locally,
globally)?
⢠Who are my teachers? Who are my
students?
111. âTo answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my âmainâ teacher.â
â10 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 âexclusiveâ dance styles.â
122. âThe 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
âlittle boxesâ to surďŹng life
through diffuse, variegated
@barrywellman social networks.â (2002)
129. What We Need Now
⢠Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD.
⢠Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both
through infrastructure & mindset.
⢠Plan, develop & support provincial digital ďŹuency
strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing.
⢠Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities
through this transition.
130.
131. Donât limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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