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Why Networked Learning Matters

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Alec Couros
Alec Couros

Keynote presentation for the Reform Symposium, January 8/11. More information at http://reformsymposium.com/

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Why Networked Learning Matters Dr. Alec Couros Reforms Symposium 2011
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The Blur
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open scholarship
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Open Doctrine
Networked Learning?
“networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way as to support one anotherʼs learning.” (Wikipedia)
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10 Reasons WNLM
#1: The Tools Make It Easy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/3935342049
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“Free” Tools
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#2: The Monopoly Is Ending
David Wiley Then vs Now Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
David Wiley Education vs Everyday Analog Digital Tethered Mobile Isolated Connected Generic Personal Consumption Creating @opencontent Closed Open
Why Do Students Go to University? Content Degrees Social Life Support Services (Wiley, 2010)
Why Do Students Go to University? PLoS GCT Wikipedia MCSE Google Scholar ACT OCW Content Degrees Flatworld K arXiv.org CNE CCNA Open Courses Facebook Twitter Skype Social Life Support Services MySpace Yahoo! Answers MMOGs Quora ChaCha (Wiley, 2010)
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#3: We Are Smarter Together
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#4: Some Of Our Best Teachers Arenʼt Our Teachers
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#5: Geography Doesnʼt Matter. Learning Matters.
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#6: Audience Makes a Difference
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#7: Sharing Is Vital To Learning
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“itʼs about overcoming the inner 2 year old in you that screams mine, mine, itʼs mine.” (Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
“If thereʼs no sharing ... there is no education. Education is inherently an enterprise of openness and sharing and generosity. ” (Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
Dean Shareski
“knowledge is not like a cheeseburger”
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#8: Network Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Network Literacies • “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010) @hrheingold
networks • redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography. • enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community. • networks form around shared interests & objects.
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Howard Rheingold http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
danah boyd Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to: •Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability. •Dynamics: invisible audiences, @zephoria collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
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#9: Networks Allow Us to Make the World a Better Place
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#10: The End of Education & the Beginning of Learning
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“We need to move beyond the idea that education is something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create ourselves.” (Downes, 2010)
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