Building a networked identity involves developing strengths and contributions to share openly online. Educators should focus less on career goals and more on how to contribute to knowledge through active participation in personal and professional learning networks. A networked identity is a hybrid of personal and professional aspects that are always changing based on interactions and responses from others in one's networks.

1. Building a Networked Identity
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How to Become a Connected Educator
#wweopen13

2. Who do you want to be when you
grow up?

3. Wrong question.
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4. What do you want to contribute?
• What are your
strengths?
• What brought you into
education?
• What kind of work puts
you in a state of flow?
• What do you want to be
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known for?

5. “Knowledge emerges only through invention
and re-invention, through the restless,
impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human
beings pursue in the world, with the world, and
with each other.”
- Friere, The ‘Banking’ Concept
of Education, p. 244

6. Education = Multiple axes of change
public funding
knowledge scarcity
open
closed
markets
knowledge abundance

7. Increasing pressure to go online

8. h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/10728008326

9. T
witter =
currently the most open network

10. Personal/Professional
Learning Networks
Image:
@Courosa

11. Networks are not about online/
offline binaries
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12. Networked identities are
hybrid identities

13. Networks are not just about new tools, but
new literacies
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14. Differing sensibilities & legitimacy practices
Institutions
product-focused
mastery
bounded by time/space
hierarchical ties
plagiarism
authority in role
audience = teacher
Networks
process-focused
participation
always accessible
peer-to-peer ties
crowdsourcing
authority in reputation
audience = world

15. Who are we when we’re online?
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Ourselves.
Amplified.
Engaged in visible identity work.

16. Always Multiple
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17. Always Faceted

18. A personal/professional hybrid
does NOT mean
no public/private distinction
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professional
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private

19. The Performative Self

20. Bring identity into being:
lather, rinse, repeat your contributions

21. The Quantified Self

22. The Participatory Self
(connections and comments build ties: ties are
persistent, replicable, scalable & searchable)

23. The Asynchronous Self
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24. The Augmented Self
“The mistake of early internet theorists was their
assumption that The Web provided an alternate
space in which social actors were free to be who they
wanted, rather than who they were...
In addition to knowing who we are by seeing what we
do, we also know who we are by seeing how others
respond to us. As such, our ideal selves can only
manifest to the extent to which our networks allow it. ”
- Jenny Davis
h#p://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/11/04/re-­‐imagined-­‐authen2city/

25. The Surveilled Self
“The internet is on principle a system that
you reveal yourself to in order to fully enjoy,
which differentiates it from, say, a music
player. It is a TV that watches you.”
- Edward Snowden, in The Washington Post

26. The Branded “Me, Inc.” Self
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/4880623547

27. Context Collapse
…that awkward moment when you remember you
friended your grandma on Facebook.
Or that your students – or your VP, or your new
boss – follow you on T
witter.

28. Digital Selves = Public
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Aware of being
watched
Aware of scale of
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attention
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Build identity by
repetition
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Build ties by visible
communications
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29. Benefits as learner & scholar:
access, engagement, profile

30. Benefits as teacher: opportunities to
connect & convey info in new media

31. Benefits as writer:
real audiences

32. Benefits as thinker:
emergent, choral conversation

33. • Signal intentionally
• Signal to build up others, not just yourself
• Signal broadly
• Signal patiently
• Signal what you want to contribute

34. What Do Your Signals Say?