Part of the Changing the Learning Landscape programme led by SEDA. #cll1213

1. Digital connectedness:
maximizing the potential
of your network
Sue Beckingham FSEDA (@suebecks #cll1213)
SEDA and Sheffield Hallam University

2. Connectedness
“People need to learn how to
connect to new people on a
regular basis. No person has all the
knowledge needed to work
completely alone in our connected
society. Neither does any company.
Neither does any government.
We are all connected AND
dependent on each other.”
Harold Jarche

3. Yes we can do this face to face
but technology can help to
extend our reach

4. Connections
students
YOU
service colleagues
providers
business family
advisors YOU
specialism
friends
acquaintances

5. Strong Connections
students
and
alumni
service bosses
colleagues
providers co-workers
subordinates
business family parents siblings
advisors children
specialism
acquaintances friends school/uni, hobbies, neig
hbours, work etc

7. Weak Connections
students
and
alumni
service
colleagues
providers
business YOU family
advisors
specialism
acquaintances friends

8. student and
student
Exchanges could be between...
administrator
and CEO
lifelong learner
and
lifelong learner

9. Knowledge from a network
perspective is about
connecting
experiences, relationships,
and situations.
Jarche 2013

10. Purposes of Networking
Transactions • buying, selling, getting a job, getting a contract, advertising, etc.
Relationships • business, music, friendship, romance, hobbies, college, etc.
Awareness • campaigns, aid, human rights, climate change, politics, etc.
Care • medical, recovery programmes, mental health, self-help, etc.
Knowledge • learning networks, research, personal development, etc.
Entertainment • music, video, sports, etc.
Religion and spirituality • online religious practice, religious groups, spiritual paths, etc.
The Tracker Model
(West in D'Souza 2011)

11. A “social network” can be defined as a set of nodes or
actors (persons or organizations) linked by social
relationships or ties of a specified type.
A tie or relation between two actors has both strength
and content. The content might include
information, advice, or friendship, shared interest or
membership, and typically some level of trust.
Castilla, Hwang, Granovetter and Granovetter. 2000

12. The strength of interpersonal ties is a combination of
the amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy
(mutual confiding and the reciprocal services which
characterises the tie
Granovetter 1973:1361

13. However… weak ties can uniquely serve as
bridges to other worlds and thus can pass on
information or opportunities you have
not heard about.
(Hoffman and Casnocha 2012:06)

14. Six degrees of separation theory
Anyone can be connected to any other person on the
planet through a chain of acquaintances and that we are
just six introductions away from any other person

15. The Power of 2nd and 3rd
degree connections
1st 2nd 3rd
YOU

16. Three degrees is the magic number because when
you’re introduced to a 2nd or 3rd degree
connection, at least one person in an introduction
chain personally knows the origin or target person
1st 2nd 3rd
YOU

17. We can make these connections through
social networks and social media

18. “Social networks
aren't technologies.
They're relationships
between people. And
those relationships
might be mediated
through technology, but
it's the relationships
that matter more than
the technology.”
Danah Boyd 2013
Social Media Scholar and Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

19. Social Media:
• is a listening tool
• a conversation facilitator
• a stakeholder connector
• a personal learning
network
• a news channel
• a social networking
channel

20. Social Media:
• can enable connections
• is a two-way enabling
dialogue providing
opportunities for
feedback and
interaction
• is now an integral
component of how we
can communicate with
our communities and
connections

21. Social Media gives
humans an instant
connection to
communicate with
others.

22. Social media is "used to
describe the type of
media that is based on
conversation and
interaction between
people online.
Where media means
digital words, sounds &
pictures which are
typically shared via the
internet

23. 21st Century Literacy Skills
International School Bangkok http://isb21.wikispaces.com/

24. New Literacies for Networked Individuals
Graphic literacy i.e. infographics
Navigation literacy i.e. internet geography
Rainie and Wellman (2012:272-274)
Context and connections literacy i.e. PLNs
Focus literacy i.e. time for solitude switch
Multitasking literacy i.e. appliances, people
Scepticism literacy i.e. ‘crap detection’
Ethical literacy i.e. trust

25. I know I’ve got it filed somewhere….

26. We now have a universe of
information and data
available at our finger tips

27. BUT… Are we seeing all that we could?
Beware online "filter bubbles"
Eli Pariser 2011 – Screenshot from TED talk

28. 57 signals Google looks at
Invisible algorithmic
editing of the web....
Is personalising what you see
but potentially narrowing our
worldview

31. “It’s not information
overload, it’s filter
failure”

32. Filter
By developing good connections with shared
interests, collaboratively we can filter what is relevant to us

33. In pairs
discuss how
you currently
find experts
Tip:
For a future exercise
answers could be
collated in a shared
Google Doc

34. How do you create and
maintain
new inks and connections?

37. “Networks of people are
being mediated such that
people are easily able to
see who is connected to
whom and leverage loose
ties to achieve all sorts of
work-related goals.
Individual knowledge is
often less important than
being connected to the
Danah Boyd 2013 right people.”

38. Diadic Triadic
relationship relationship
Complex
relationships

40. mentionmap

42. How to create visualisations of your
connections
Go to Wolfram Alpha .
Go to LInkedIn Maps Go to MentionMapp Type the words
"Facebook Report" into
Log in with your Allow MentionMapp to search field
LinkedIn username access your Twitter Allow Wolfram Alpha to
and password data access your Facebook
data.
Note: you may revoke authorisation for these apps from the settings on each tool

43. Your virtual rolodex

45. A quick look inside my PLN Toolbox

46. Academia

47. Couros 2008
Many Educators have been networking and sharing
for some time. How do we help get more on board?

48. Jane Hart
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

49. A tagged
collection of
web 2.0 tools
you can search
http://www.go2web20.net/

50. We make a
living by
what we
get, we
make a life
by what we
give.
Sir Winston Churchill

51. Changing the Learning Landscape – Where are we now with digital literacies?
University of Exeter
Sue Beckingham
Educational Developer
Sheffield Hallam University
@suebecks
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham
http://gplus.to/suebecks