The digital revolution has given us a world of global connectedness, information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, giving teachers the opportunity to hone their professional practice through their networked learning community. What do you do to make it so?

1. Our everyday
tools for success
20 June 2013
Distance Education Symposium,
NSW Department of Education
and Communities
Judy O’Connell

2. c. 1970

3. World's last telegram to be sent next month!

4. Mobile technology and its influences
are growing at warp speed.
In 2013 there are almost as many mobile
subscriptions as people in the world.

5. Pocket-sized moleskin notebook
Evernote everywhere!
c. 2010

8. Pew Research December 2012http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/media-and-technology/social-networking-use/

9. Technology is almost everywhere!
http://youtu.be/dwAuTbx3xKE

10. Horizon Report 2013
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: OneYear or Less
•Cloud Computing
•Mobile Learning
Time-to-Adoption Horizon:Two to ThreeYears
•Learning Analytics
•Open Content
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to FiveYears
•3D Printing
•Virtual and Remote Laboratories
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf

11. Learning with Mobile millenials
Born in 1995, they do not remember a world without social media.
3 years old – Google changes the way we search the web.
4 years old – Netflix begins digitally delivering movies and TV shows.
6 years old – The iPod hits the market and changes the way the world listened to
music.
7 years old – American Idol airs and “live voting” by mobile device becomes
mainstream
8 years old – Tom launches Myspace, and social media begins the climb to world
domination..
9 years old – The first episode of Lost hits the airwaves. Facebook is born.
10 years old – Youtube adds a whole new element to searching the web.
11 years old – Twitter – and 140 characters – becomes popular.
12 years old – The iPhone took the world by storm. (2008)
.......the rest, as they say, is history

12. http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google?INTCMP=SRCH
“We have a romantic attachment to skills from the
past. Longhand multiplication of numbers using paper
and pencil is considered a worthy intellectual
achievement. Using a mobile phone to multiply is not.
But to the people who invented it, longhand
multiplication was just a convenient technology.”
Sugata Mitra is professor of educational technology at
Newcastle University, and the winner of the $1m TED
Prize 2013. He devised the Hole in the Wall experiment,
where a computer was embedded in a wall in a slum in
Delhi for children to use freely.

13. BIGA information world

14. BIG
A time to get organised

17. We live in a connected
world. Nearly two
billion people connect
to the internet, share
information and
communicate over
blogs, Wikis, social
networks and a host of
other media.

18. Anything imaginable is
capable of being
connected to the
network, become
intelligent offering
almost endless
possibilities.

19. The question is.....?

20. How should technology impact the way
we learn and the way we work?
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by fatboyke (Luc): http://flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2984569992/

21. More content, streams of data,
topic structures, (theoretically)
better quality - all of these in
online environments
require an equivalent shift in our
online capabilities.

22. 1. Find the right thing
2. Get the best summary
3. Go broader and deeper
What should we do...?

23. LIFESTREAMS
Today, our view of cyberspace is shaped by a 20-year-old
metaphor in which files are documents, documents are
organized into folders, and all are littered around the
flatland known as the desktop. Lifestreams takes a
completely different approach: instead of organizing by
space, it organizes by time. It is a diary rather than a
desktop.
Steve G. Steinberg
February 1997
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

24. The End of the Web, Search, and
Computer as We Know It
David Gelernter
February 2013
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/

25. David Gelernter
February 2013
This LIFESTREAM — a heterogeneous,
content-searchable, real-time messaging
stream — arrived in the form of blog posts
and RSS feeds,Twitter and other
chatstreams, and Facebook walls and
timelines.

26. David Gelernter
February 2013
Today, the most important function of the
internet is to deliver the latest information,
to tell us what’s happening right now.
Whether tweet or timeline, all are time-
ordered streams designed to tell you what’s
new.

27. The answer is....?

28. We must be

29. We must understand
our information
and knowledge
environments

31. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Louise Docker: http://flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/316350537/
Your
information
flow might
be so last
century...
http://judyoconnell.com/2013/06/17/your-information-flow-might-be-so-last-century/

32. It’s Monday
morning, and as I sit
down for my
morning cup of tea
and toast, I open my
iPhone to see what’s
in my email, and
what items in my
calendar will need
my attention.

33. In just a couple of minutes of my twitter feed (never mind all the
hours I was asleep) I found:
• Founders Online – a new online History resources from the
US
• The name of a Dr Who episode I must rewatch
• Google’s efforts to build a system to help eradicate Child Porn
on the web
• A good post about the new learning organisation
• A commentary article from the ABC that asks if Big Data is all
that it’s cracked up to be
• A post speculating on MOOCs as slowly deflating bubbles
• A little piece of historical memorabilia about to happen – last
telegram in the world
• A new ProjectTomorrow research report which confirms that
teachers’ unsophisticated use of tech is creating the second
level digital divide

34. Project Tomorrow
ProjectTomorrow: Empowering opportunities
http://tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU12-Students.pdf

35. http://vimeo.com/32674575#

36. It’s time to have a shared vision
around digital tools
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Adelle & Justin: http://flickr.com/photos/h_is_for_home/3494382794/

37. Simply using the latest 1-to-1
device, or the latest website, or the
latest app is not the solution either,
although these shiny new toys can
provide an illusion of advancement
and success.

38. Delicious tools!
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Clever Cupcakes: http://flickr.com/photos/clevercupcakes/4402962654/

39. What’s the story with
the yellow blotch?
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html
SearchReSearch blog
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/

40. Learn about the latest
additions to search so as to
get the most out of Google.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/
Because
Google is
where
everyone starts!

41. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html
Google alerts too!

42. http://www.instagrok.com/

43. Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational
knowledge engine that generates answers to
questions in real time by doing computations on its
own vast internal knowledge base.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

44. https://duckduckgo.com/
NSA PRISM Spy Program

45. Choose the best
search for your
information and
knowledge needs!

46. Leverage computational
thinking
Logical Thinking
Algorithmic Thinking
Efficient Solutions
Scientific Thinking
Innovative Thinking
http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/resources.html

47. Learn to work strategically
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by ecstaticist: http://flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/395737939/
Knowledge 2.0
http://bit.ly/knowledge2

48. Mindful infotention
Learned attention
skills and online
information tools
“I've become convinced that understanding how networks work is
an essential 21st century literacy”. Howard Rheingold

49. •Highly flexible search
and collection
strategies
•Collaborative forms of
information
organization and
dissemination

50. Pinterest

51. Flickr

52. http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Periodic Table of QR codes

53. ScoopIt

54. Diigo

55. Curating your own Flipboard Magazine
http://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/flipboard/

57. h"p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/
Modelling
exemplary use of
social media,
search engines,
and collaborative
research strategies.

58. http://learningfundamentals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Focus-mindmap-for-web.jpg

59. Our everyday
tools for success

60. Top 100 tools for learning
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

61. Spartan Guides
http://sdst.libguides.com/index.php

62. Best Apps for Academics
http://smallwow.com/apps

63. Look who’s talking onTwitter,
Diigo and LinkedIn
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=288178

64. Personal web
tools – used for
tracking our life
and powering our
information
organisation.

65. Relying on the
people we
connect with
through social
networks and
collaborative tools
and environments

66. Microblogging tools for information sharing - Google+,Twitter
Social bookmarking and tagging - Diigo, Delicious, Pearltrees
Collaborative writing, mindmapping, and presentations -
Google docs, Exploratree,Voicethread, Mindmeister
ResearchTools - Zotero, Easybib
Information capture and sharing on multiple devices -
Evernote, Pinterest, ScoopIt, Livebinders
Open Access and Creative Commons - FlickrCC,Trove,
Collections - Europeana,Trove, the Flickr Commons, FlickrCC
Aggregators and news readers - Feedly, Symbaloo
Online storage and files sharing - Dropbox, SkyDrive
Few Things I like

67. Working together
http://hojoki.com

68. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo byVicki & Chuck Rogers: http://flickr.com/photos/two-wrongs/24935477/

69. Extreme adventure!
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Theresa Thompson: http://flickr.com/photos/theresasthompson/7163227255/

70. For example.....
What do you know about
FlickrCC Attribution Helper?
How would it help you?

71. You’ll find the answer, and
more good information about
images at....
http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/

72. For example.....
Where do you hangout online?

73. You could try .....
ACCE Learning Network
http://acceln.wikispaces.com/home
http://www.edtechcrew.net/

74. Our everyday tools for
success are our
professional drivers for
understanding the
concepts and practices for
learning and teaching in
digital environments.

75. Search strategies
Evaluation strategies
Critical thinking and problem solving
Networked conversation & collaboration
Cloud computing environments
Ethical use and production of information
Information curation of personal &
distributed knowledge.
Topics for discussion

77. heyjudeonline
Judy O’Connell
http://judyoconnell.com
Judy O’Connell