The document discusses how educators are adapting to new technologies and social media. It summarizes views from several experts on topics like the filter bubble, social networking, and gaming. Educators need skills to engage authentically with students who are "digital natives" and support the intellectual, creative, social, and ethical use of technologies. While technology is neither good nor bad, institutions still have a role in ensuring educational quality, evidence-based practices, and responses to issues with social media and students' online behaviors.
1. The Actors:
New Media Experts and Old Pedagogues?
D r A l b i n Wa l l a c e
Executive Director of Research and Development
2. “The Education Fellowship (TEF) was founded by
Sir Ewan Harper CBE and Johnson Kane to
deliver an excellent education to children of all
backgrounds. We aim to create excellence in
every area: an excellence flowing from our
underlying ethos and values. An ethos that
„goes beyond the expected‟ and which is
based on unremitting service to young people.”
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4. How is the role of educators being affected by
social media?
How can educators be authentic models for
(so-called) “digital natives”?
What skills do they need?
How can they be supported by their institutions?
Is it all individual commitment?
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9. Do your students have smart phones?
Do they engage in online gaming?
Do they participate in an online social network?
11. There is increasing technological divergence
between institutions and individuals
Institution Individual
12. Does this mean that students know everything
and we know nothing?
13. Paul Howard-Jones: Neuroscience
“internet use can be problematic when it
regularly interferes with normal daily living and is
difficult to control”
14. “excessive use of computers/internet
access/gaming interferes with psychosocial
wellbeing, attentional and vision problems”
15. Sherry Turkle: Social Media
“…it is an illusion that technology will give us
control”
16. …”there is no intimacy or democracy without
privacy”
20. Eli Pariser: The Filter Bubble
“Filters based on simplification (e.g. „like‟ button) means
information junk food can appear to be the only option
on offer.”
21. “The fact that 'like' is the only choice on Facebook
creates a distortion problem - we don't like
everything we think is important”
22. "We love to be right. This is why sites want to serve
you more tailored content. It makes you feel right
more often.”
23. "You don't necessarily choose what gets into your
filter bubble, the algorithms choose for you"
24. Ofsted: Managing Risk
“Institutions should manage the transition from
locked-down systems to more managed systems
to help students learn how to manage risk”.
29. Things that are changing
Diversity
Tablets, PCs, netbooks, smart phones, other hand-held devices
Consistency
Agnostic platforms
24/7
Get-what-you-want-when-you-need-it
Mobile and Personal
Bring-your-own-device
Online
Put-it-in and get-it-from the Cloud
Education
Empowered, discerning, intelligent users
33. Workshop 1…..
Jane McGonigal
What do you think? Do you agree?
Can gaming improve students‟ learning?
What could the benefits be?
What are your concerns?
34. Workshop 2
Eli Pariser
What do you think? Do you agree?
What are the implications of the filter bubble in
students‟ lives?
What can we learn from this?
35. Workshop 3
Sherry Turkle
What do you think? Do you agree?
Is social networking making us less human?
How do we respond to this in educational
institutions and in our private lives?
36. Workshop 4
Mike Matas
What do you think? Do you agree?
Is this just a gimmick?
What should the balance be between printed
books and digital books?
42. Inexpensive networked, portable, personal
devices…
…including the ones they bring in
An institutional response is needed but
acknowledge spontaneity, chaos, privacy, affinity
spaces, communities of practice
43. We still have a role in ensuring…
Educational quality assurance,
Evidence-based research,
Continuous professional development,
Justification in terms of learning outcomes
Institutional response to social media
