A practical overview of the roles networked communications and social media can play in education during an era of knowledge abundance, and how to build networked identities and cognitive, teaching, and social presence in digital learning environments.

1. NETWORKING EDUCATION:
Identities & Presence
Bonnie Stewart
University of Prince Edward Island
@bonstewart

2. me ------------>

3. education
what people
had for lunch
my work

4. Why?

5. Personal/professional divide
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7. h"ps://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-­‐digital-­‐literacies

8. Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to
Knowledge

9. Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of
Knowledge

10. Literacies, 2015 BCE = Management
& Synthesis of Knowledge

11. UNESCO Definition of
Media Information Literacies (MIK)
Knowledge, attitudes, skills, & practices
required to
access, analyse, evaluate, use, produce, &
communicate
information & knowledge in
creative, legal, & ethical ways
Encompasses
learning, critical thinking & interpretive skills

12. Knowledge Abundance
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13. "For the first time in human history, two related
propositions are true. One, it no longer
is possible to store within the human brain all of
the information that a human needs.
Second, it no longer is necessary to store
within the human brain all of the information
that humans need.
Education needs to be geared toward
the handling of data rather than the
accumulation of data.”
- Berlo, 1975

14. Abundance =
integration of media into
daily life

15. …and education.

16. Structure of Abundance = Networks
h"ps://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801

17. Networking:
many-to-many communications
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18. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for consuming,
but connecting

19. Many-to-many communications
allow us to create ourselves as
network nodes, forming webs of
visible (& invisible) connections

20. Why network education?

21. Technologies do not necessarily
change how we approach learning
h"p://www.onlineuniversies.com/blog/2012/08/teaching-­‐with-­‐tablets/

22. Top-down knowledge dissemination
is no longer sufficient

24. Architecture of participation

25. Identity = Price of Admission
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26. Identity need not be fully public,
but should allow in-group
identification

27. Should scaffold & extend
conversations & resource-sharing
@hypothes_is!

28. Should open new conversations

29. Digital identity can also allow
teachers to model

30. You shape what they see

31. There is no such thing as
a digital native.

32. Identity is formed by
contribution over time

33. Contribution = Control.

34. But the sites of digital identity
are not neutral.

35. Empires are constructed from money,
territory, and information.
In the globalized 21st century,
not all empires are geopolitical.

36. 21st Century Fox
• Fox Broadcasting
• 20th Century Fox Film
• 20th Century Fox TV
• Fox Sports
• Fox News Channel
• Fox Business Network
• National Geographic
Channels
• BSkyB
= $73.45 billion
News Corps 2013
• Dow Jones
• Wall Street Journal
• Harper Collins
• New York Post
• The Australian
• The Herald Sun
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Times
• The Sun
= $9.44 billion

37. Messages are constructed

38. But not all media & information
is coming from institutions
- or via broadcast - any longer.

39. What places do you live?
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40. Who owns the places you live?

41. h"p://jamiebillingham.com/2011/01/do-­‐you-­‐have-­‐a-­‐personal-­‐cyberinfrastructure/

42. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/9550630763/

43. Google yourself.
What do you find?

44. Digital identity can be stressful

45. But it is a key form of connection.
Sometimes…I’ll choose
someone with twenty
followers, because I come
across something they’ve
managed to say in 140
characters, and I think “oh,
look at you, crafting on a
grain of rice.”
- @KateMfD
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/843670538

46. …which brings us to Presence

47. Online = people on the other
end of the line
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48. h"p://dubioblog.com/2012/01/08/how-­‐to-­‐learn-­‐the-­‐how-­‐learning-­‐domains/
Learning is Multi-faceted

49. Presence is Multi-faceted
h"p://www.learningsoluonsmag.com/arcles/761/building-­‐an-­‐online-­‐learning-­‐community

50. Online demands MORE presence

51. Presence ≠ Content

53. Social presence = a sense of
each other

54. h"ps://plus.google.com/+DaveGray/posts/CQRVeKEsUvF?pid=5751686447270321954&oid=117373186752666867801
Support Many to Many
Communications

55. Help students share what they know
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56. Be vigilant about power & inclusion.
Don’t let anyone be taken apart.
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57. Start from a common point & move
out based on interests

58. Think : Pair : Share
What could you try?

59. What questions do you have?

60. @bonstewart
bstewart@upei.ca
THANK YOU.
J