http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlynorth/3470300872/in/photostream/

Teaching and LearningWith social media

The need for a new habitus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59217476@N00/7196460482

http://www.flickr.com/photos/funksoup/403990660/

Image and quote by Dean Shareski http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/2655113202/in/pool-858082@N25 (CC BY-NC 2.0)

More than a resource

http://www.flickr.com/photos/graciepoo/215649963/

Any technology tends to create a new human

environment... Technological environments

are not merely passive containers of people but are

active processes that reshape people and other

technologies alike.

M. Mcluhan, 1962

New literacies/fluencies

Digital literacies defines those who exhibit a critical understanding and capability for living, learning, and working in the digital society. JISC, 2013

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Digital Natives?

Digital Visitors

or Digital

ResidentsWhite & Le Cornu

“Learners do not appear ‘to see beyond’ the immediately obvious functionality of the technology and there is little evidence of transfer”

Clark et al, 2008, p.68

“To possess the machines, [they] only need economic capital; to appropriate them and use them in accordance with their specific purpose [they] must have access to embodied cultural capital, either in person or by proxy”

Pierre Bourdieu1986

The beginning of a new habitus (that needs to be nurtured; not ignored)

How we do things around here

historical continuum Dispositions

Technology…

disrupts the historical continuum

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Digital Habitus specific set of values/practices

ParticipationAgency

Social Media is a Mindset!