12. “Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reflect
and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools
might positively affect -- even transform - research,
teaching, and services responsibilities - only if scholars
choose to build serious academic lives online,
presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in
and connected to the work of their peers and
students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)
21. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
22. David Wiley
(Brigham Young University)
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
23. “... networked proximity facilitates new kinds of
spatially unbound community, and that these emerging
forms of sociality are equally or more meaningful than
the older ones. Community is thus “liberated”, unhinged
from space, and can be maintained regardless of
distance” (Mejias, 2007)
31. The Web as Random Acts of Kindness
(TED Talk)
@zittrain
• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through
Internet-facilitated kindness,
collaboration, & sharing.
33. “Some of the comments on
Youtube make you weep for the
future of humanity, just for the
spelling alone, never mind the
obscenity and naked hatred.”
@leverus
(Lev Grossman)
36. The Machine is (Changing) Us
(Personal Democracy Forum)
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape
our tools and thereafter our tools
shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media
mitigate “connection without
constraint”. In many cases this
leaves to “tremendously deep
communities”.
@mwesch
38. “The invention of the alphabet and the resulting
intensification of the visual sense in the communication
process gave sight priority over hearing, but the effect
was so powerful that it went beyond communication
through language to reshape literate society’s
conception and use of space.” (Gordon re: Mcluhan)
47. What’s the point?
•What do we gain in trusting educators with
technology?
•What opportunities are lost without this
trust?
•What credibility is lost when we assume that
we have control when in fact we do not?
•(How/Where) can we redirect our efforts in
positive, meaningful ways?
49. Living & Learning with Social Media
(Penn State address)
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
50. “Kyle Doyle is not going
to work today, f*** it,
I’m still trashed
SICKIE WOO.”
“Cisco just offered me a job!
Now I have to weigh the utility
of a fatty paycheck against the
daily commute to San Jose and
hating the work.”
52. Bassman_Sean
(Scotland)
• Scottish teen who
participates in my open,
online grad course.
• Creative, motivated,
independent, connected,
respectful, cognizant and
intentional in managing
his digital identity.
@bassman_sean
69. Dean Shareski
(Prairie South School Division)
• Master collaborator aka
‘Lazy Professor’.
• Connects preservice
teachers to classrooms
across the globe.
•Focus is on the power
@shareski
of sharing, and ‘paying
forward’.
87. • Let go
• Rethink technology
• Redefine leadership
88. • Let go
• Rethink technology
• Redefine leadership
• Understand media
89. • Let go
• Rethink technology
• Redefine leadership
• Understand media
• Knock down walls
90. • Let go
• Rethink technology
• Redefine leadership
• Understand media
• Knock down walls
• Expand notions of PD
91. • Let go
• Rethink technology
• Redefine leadership
• Understand media
• Knock down walls
• Expand notions of PD
• Believe
92. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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