impacts of cultural & technical change
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MobilizeThis 2008 is yearly event which provides a snapshot of a cross-sectorial range of contributions to discussion involving the practical and constructive use of ICT's in the education and related industries.TRANSCRIPT
Implications of cultural & technicalchanges on learning and teaching
Oct-2008 1by Kate Carruthers
Who Me?
• Marketer, technologist, educator and renaissance woman
www.katecarruthers.com
www.digbiz.com.au
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Hyperconnectivity
• Not 6 degrees of separation
• Perhaps only 1 degree
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Source: http://www.popsci.com.au/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/734px-Six_degrees_of_separation.jpg
Massive Interconnections
• SMS
• MySpace
• Mobile
Oct-2008 by Kate Carruthers 5
Consumption On-Demand
• No more waiting
• What I want
• When I want it
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/17/bittorrent-is-now-streaming-movies-with-ads-but-wheres-the-good-stuff/
Tribal Brains
• Wired to deal with smaller groups
• Wired for small chunks of information
• No epic poems for us today
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Tribal Creatures
• Tribe size
• Dunbar’s number = 150
• We mesh into subgroups based on common interests
• Increasingly loose ties
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Chunking & Small Groups
• Growth of knowledge
• Too much knowledge to keep in our heads
• No more epic poetry
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Source: http://www.familycourtchronicles.com/philosophy/spartan/spartan-brad-pitt.jpg
• Even minority groups can get together using this technology
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Technology
• “A fool with a tool is still a fool”
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Technology
• Technology can help us
• Wikis, blogs, etc
• Next semantic web and mobile
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Reuters reported this small wearable TV in 2007
Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2007/05/22/never-ever-dont-watch-tv-again/
Challenges
• Institutions = slow to change
• Individual = teachers embracing change
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Source: http://anarchonation.blogspot.com/2008/07/attackthesystemcom-american.html
Boundaries
• Time
• Place
• Content
• Authority
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Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hadrians_wall_Greenhead.jpg
Sensemaking
• Co-creation
• Facilitation
• Mutual respect
• Variable learning spaces
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Source: http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/surprised_baby_2.jpg
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Slides are available at www.slideshare.net/carruthk