The document discusses how networks and connectivity are reshaping education. It notes that more video is uploaded to YouTube every month than the major US television networks created in 60 years. Knowledge is now freely available online like air or water. While age is not a determining factor, access and opportunities create a digital divide. Network literacy including understanding how networks work is an important 21st century skill. Learning is becoming more open and social through networks, with learners gaining knowledge from many online sources rather than just educators. The paradigm is shifting from isolated learning to learning through diverse social networks.
22. “55. New Kids have always
been known as NKOTB.
“1. There has always been an Internet
ramp on the Information Highway”
“57. They’ve often broken up with significant
others via texting, Facebook, or Myspace.”
36. “60 hours of video are uploaded every
minute, or one hour of video is
uploaded to Youtube every second.”
“Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day.”
“Over 800 million unique users visit
Youtube every month.”
“More video is uploaded to YouTube in
one month that the 3 major US networks
created in 60 years.”
37. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
38.
39. “Today knowledge is free.
It’s like air, it’s like water...
There’s no competitive
advantage in knowing
more than the person next
to you. The world doesn’t
care what you know. What
the world cares about is
what you can do with what
you know.” (2012)
@drtonywagner
41. “... age is not a determining factor in
students’ digital lives; rather, their familiarity
and experience using ICTs is more relevant.”
“... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate:
those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation
growing up to replace an older analogue
generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by
access and opportunity.”
53. memes
“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the
meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a
fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”
Lowenstein, 1999
56. “...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western
governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get
their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker
67. “The average digital birth of children
happens at about 6 months.”
“In Canada, US, UK, France Italy,
Germany & Spain ... 81% of children
under the age of two have some kind
of digital profile or footprint.”
108. Techno-Social Affordances
• How does ‘digital’ (instant, shareable,
replicable, findable, remixable, networked,
open) reshape teaching & learning?
• What does it mean to be connected (locally,
globally)?
• Who are my teachers? Who are my
students?
111. “To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
122. “The developed world is in
the midst of a paradigm
shift both in the ways in
which people and
institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being
bound up in homogenous
“little boxes” to surfing life
through diffuse, variegated
@barrywellman social networks.” (2002)
129. What We Need Now
• Remove blocks, increase bandwidth, implement BYOD.
• Foster a culture of sharing across our province - both
through infrastructure & mindset.
• Plan, develop & support provincial digital fluency
strategy - citizenship, identity, portfolios, sharing.
• Support our admins, teachers, learners & communities
through this transition.
130.
131. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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