Power of Networks
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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.
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Power of Networks
- 1. The Power of Networks And Why It Matters to Education Dr. Alec Couros Saskatchewan IT Summit 2012 Saskatoon, SK May 7, 2012
- 2. #itsummit12
- 4. me
- 5. Who Am I?
- 6. The Blur
- 8. memories of media past
- 9. Gaming
- 10. Multi-Player
- 11. Piracy
- 12. Adaptation
- 13. Personalization
- 14. Troubleshooting
- 15. Mobile
- 16. Edtech
- 17. Web 1.0
- 19. changes in media
- 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
- 23. mobile
- 24. Early Day of PC in Schools Todayâs Social/Mobile Reality
- 29. tools
- 32. content
- 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)
- 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
- 42. from ...
- 43. to ...
- 44. literacy
- 45. info/media literacy (digital) identity network literacy
- 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
- 64. what does it mean when you like something?
- 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
- 80. network literacy
- 81. Network Literacies ⢠âUnderstanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.â (2010) Howard Rheingold
- 85. Service Data
- 90. Crowdsourcing
- 93. @dlnorman
- 94. @giuliaforsythe
- 95. @noiseprofessor @noiseprofessor
- 96. @noiseprofessor
- 97. @timlauer
- 99. Remix
- 101. social learning
- 102. 21st Century Learning Networks
- 103. 21st Century Learning Networks
- 104. #skteachers
- 105. #edchat
- 106. #comments4kids
- 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?
- 109. learning in the open
- 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
- 115. Matt Kirk Nick
- 118. Thinning Walls Private Public Closed Open
- 119. how are you making learning visible?
- 120. how are you contributing to the learning of others?
- 121. conclusion
- 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)
- 124. ďŹxed to place ďŹxed to person
- 125. âThe person has become the portal.â Wellman (2002)
- 127. how do we get there when ...
- 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.
- 131. Donât limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa