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)
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. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
23. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
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)
33.
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.
35.
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
49. 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
50. “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.”
51.
52. 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
77. 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.
78. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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