education in abundance: network literacies & learning

EDUCATION IN ABUNDANCE: Network Literacies & Learning

Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart

University of Prince Edward Island #Elearning16

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me at work, last APRIL 17th

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knowledge scarcity

knowledge abundance

open practices

public models

market models

closed practices

Personalizing Beyond Content… in Changing Times

NETWORKS

Digital + network tools connect people to each other

(When we let them)

•  How we think about tools shapes what we can do with them.

•  How we think about learning shapes what we can do with

education.

What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?

Literacies = tools + concepts

https://www.flickr.com/photos/zzpza/3269784239/

Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to Knowledge

Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of Knowledge

Literacies, 2016 BCE = Management & Synthesis of Knowledge

Expanding & expanding……

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies

What literacies are you working on?

Where are YOUR strengths?

THINK : PAIR : SHARE What literacies are you working on?

What literacies are the faculty & students you work with working on?

LITERACIES OF ABUNDANCE

Knowledge Abundance

https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakleyoriginals/4142641838/

"For the first time in human history, two related propositions are true. One, it no longer is possible to

store within the human brain all of the information that a human needs.

Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the

human brain all of the information that humans need.

Education needs to be geared toward

the handling of data rather than the accumulation of data.”

- Berlo, 1975

Abundance = integration of media into

daily life

…and education.

Sometimes abundance can be overload

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2191408271/

Structure of Abundance = Networks

https://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801

Networks are not JUST digital

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Networking: many-to-many communications

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/thumb/d/d8/Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg/280px-Do_Not_Adjust_Your_Set.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/

Networks are not just for consuming, but connecting

Many-to-many communications allow us to create ourselves

as network nodes, forming webs of visible (& invisible) connections

…Like a party line with various private/public options

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94342662@N00/3869483214/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21031300@N02/4076687726/

And permanence.

Abundance = the internet as the world’s biggest small town

Educating in Abundance = Network Learning

So. Trying to map network literacies over systems of education:

What does that LOOK like?

Many-to-many communications, & org structures CAN co-exist

http://www.telecomtv.com/articles/tablets/retro-chic-apples-original-macintosh-reimagined-12100

Just add technology?

Architecture of participation

This was the promise of Web 2.0

http://img12.deviantart.net/f1e6/i/2008/081/e/7/web_2_0___everybody_contribute_by_sulich.png

It cannot be achieved by just putting content online.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sepblog/3649959481

Literacy 1: IDENTITY

Identity = Price of Admission

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mkhmarketing/8468788107

Digital identity = reputation built through repeated interactions

In institutional structures, an

individual has a role.

In a networked culture, an individual

has an identity, which it is his/her job to

differentiate.

Digital identity = control

You need to work on your identity before it will work for you

Identity need not be fully public, but should allow in-group identification

Should scaffold & extend conversations & resource-sharing

@hypothes_is!

Should open new conversations

Should model how to navigate many-to-many communications

with minimal harm / damage

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooocha/2632434274/sizes/z/in/photostream/

To lead networked learning, facilitators need to be

networked too.

BUT THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE EXPERTS.

To get started (in any network)…

Building network literacies on your campus = choices

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42386632@N00/8528725328/

Literacy 2: CONTRIBUTION

Visitors & Residents

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mistergc/20550559482/

There is no such thing as a digital native.

Visitors | Residents

•  The web as an untidy garden tool shed

•  Actions are instrumental - users leave no social trace

•  Task is priority

•  The web as a human, social, connected place

•  Engagement leaves social traces & connections (& content) behind

•  Synthesis is priority

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/12947691804/in/album-72157641903755433/

Where are YOUR practices?

Emphasizing content & consumption prioritizes visitor approaches

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belber_Suitcase.jpg

But learners must learn to be productive residents in a world of knowledge

abundance.

…and algorithms? and data?

???

Literacy 3: CONNECTION

Networked learning = learning with an audience

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4129779298/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmesis/21126825/

Audiences = people The Internet = people

WHAT YOU NEED TO ASK:

•  What kinds of conversations do you want to have access to?

•  What audiences do you want for your learners? What audiences matter to them?

•  What do you – and your learners – have to offer that isn’t being seen right now?

Connect beyond the walls of the classroom

https://www.flickr.com/photos/danieldslee/5523383653

Support students to build real audiences for their work

Support professionals to, too. #s enable connection across distance,

over shared interests.

•  #highered •  #OpenEd •  #edchat •  #digped •  #BYOD •  #educolor •  #lrnchat •  #digilit •  #MinecraftEdu •  #edtech

Create #s to focus conversations or build awareness of upcoming events

NETWORKED LEARNERS:

CONTRIBUTE TO ABUNDANCE.

CONNECT.

CHANGE.

Be the change that will help people navigate change

knowledge scarcity

knowledge abundance

open practices

public models

market models

closed practices

THANK YOU.

@bonstewart bstewart@upei.ca