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Social and participatory media and new digital literacies
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University15th May 2012
Keynote, Dublin City Universityhttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6197
Outline
• New technologies• Learner experience• Digital literacies• Open practices• Memes and metaphors• Importance and implications
User generated content
Peer critiquing
Networked
Collective aggregation
Personalised
Open
Social media revolutionThe machine is us/ing us
www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/EvidenceNet/Conole_Alevizou_2010.pdf
Technologies• Transforming everything we do• New forms of communication
and collaboration• Multiple rich representations• Tools to find, create, manage,
share• Networked, distributed, peer
reviewed, open• Complex, dynamic and co-
evolvinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/6638184545/
Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Take the long view• The web is not the net• Disruption is a feature• Ecologies not economics• Complexity is the new reality• The network is now the computer• The web is evolving• Copyright or copywrong• Orwell (fear) or Huxley (pleasure)http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
IPTS report
• Confident/critical use of technologies for work, leisure and communication
• Digital divide• The network is key• More participatory and
open practices
http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC67075_TN.pdf
Benefits
• Social• Health• Economic• Civic• Cultural• Societal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaquell/4329902002/
Issues• Personal safety/privacy• Responsible, ethical, legal • Understanding digital media• Inequalities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07/3668208527/
• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems and cloud-based tools and services
• Use of course materials with free resources Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic
Digital literacies: definition• Socio-cultural view of digital literacy - set
of social practices and meaning making of digital tools (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008)
• Continuum from instrumental skills to productive competence and efficiency
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r8r/4109502436/
Play
Performance
Simulation
Appropriation
Multitasking
Distributed cognition
Collective intelligence
Judgement
Transmedia navigation
Networking
Negotiation
Jenkins et al., 2006
Digital literacies
Transmedia navigation
Distributed cognition
Salamon, 1993
Play
http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/swift/
Networking
Collective intelligence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/immaginoteca/4323915058/
Performance
• Digital identity • Degree of openness• Communication and collaboration
Citation indicators
Creativity• Derived from Latin ‘creo’ to
create/make• Creating something new
(physical artefact or concept) that is novel and valuable
• Ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, partners, relationships and create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaxzine/2278300537/
Why is it important?• Essential skill to
deal with today’s complex, fast and changing society
• Discourse and collaboration are mediated through a range of social and participatory media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/370788912/
Stages• Preparation: identifying
the problem• Incubation:
internalisation of the problem
• Intimation: getting a feeling for a solution
• Illumination: creativity burst forth
• Verification: idea is consciously verified, elaborated and appliedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/5230835657/
iCreatNet
http://www.imv.au.dk/icreanet/
Creativity and openness
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Pandora’s box
Open resources Open courses
Open scholarship Open research
Open practices
Open resources
http://www.oer-quality.org/
Open courses
http://mooc.ca/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
MassiveOpen Online Course
Open Design
Shift from belief-based, implicit approaches to design-
based, explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning DesignA design-based approach to creation and support of
courses
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for
and why?
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
Carpe Diem:7Cs of learning Design
Open accreditation
www.p2pu.org/en/
Peer to Peer University
wikieducator.org/OER_university/
OER University
• Exploiting the digital network• New forms of dissemination
and communication• Promoting reflective practice• Embracing the affordances of
new technologies
Open scholarship
Weller: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/
Open research
Citation indicators
Metaphors
EcologiesSpaces
Memes Rhizomeshttp://e4innovation.com/?p=489
Ecologies
• Co-evolution of tools and users
• Niches colonisation of new habitats
• Survival of the fittest
MemesAn internet meme is somethingThat spreads like wildfire on theWeb (Blackmore)
To describe the interactionwith digital technologies
What makes us different Is our ability to imitate
The Internet allows forThe unprecedented Spreading of ideas
Issues in terms of convergence of thought
Spaces
Campbell, 72
Rhizomes
A rhizome is a stem of a plant that sends out roots as it spreads. Describes the way that ideas are multiple, interconnected and self-replicating. A rhizome has no beginning or end like a learning process
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic-learning-why-learn/
Importance
• Changing nature of education
• New forms of communication and collaboration
• Rich multimedia representation
• Harnessing the global network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10537908@N07/5904661557/
Implications
• Blurring boundaries• New business models• More open practices• Changing roles• Importance of new
digital literacy skills• Disruptive and
complex
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/6738302627/
Conclusion
• Co-evolving• Disruptive• Unpredictable• Complex• New opportunities• Social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/6239911583/
Good reads
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2397Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
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