1. Statewide CIRC Provider Forum
March 19 2010
the digital landscape
a kaleidoscope of opportunities, engagement and learning

2. Our values and norms in
education are being
challenged by a shifting
landscape of media and
communications.

3. Today’s youth may be coming
of age and struggling for
autonomy and identity as did
their predecessors, but they
are doing so amid new online
contexts for communication,
friendship, play, and self
expression.
Living and Learning with New Media | The MacArthur Foundation

4. buzzwords
social media
gather, communicate,
share, collaborate, play
web 2.0
social media tools

5. virtual spaces
MUVEs: multi-user virtual environments
Narrative environments : game style worlds
Virtual worlds
Social & professional networks
Sharing & collaborative spaces
Aggregation & storage
Products & services [e-commerce]
Information sources
In these spaces, people:
// run businesses & engage in e-commerce
// live, love & learn
// create & construct
// play, trade & socialise
// make their voices heard

6. key words in the digital landscape
media
social
mobile
real time
convergence

7. digital life

8. 21st Century Education Rethinking the who, what,
where & when of learning.
The delivery & distribution
of learning.
From prescriptive to
connective practices.
Who participates in the
learning process.
Learning spaces.

9. learning in virtual worlds
http://www.vimeo.com/7674231

10. web as participatory platform
‘us-ness’ | community | participation

11. http://youthvoices.adobe.com

12. shifts in learning

13. shifts in learning

14. beyond the institutionalised logic of ‘the school’ to the
network logic of the learning community
learning networks

15. learning networks rethink ....
// that expertise and knowledge reside only within the walls of
the educational institution
// that ‘learning’ and ‘schooling’ are different words for the
same thing
// that the easiest and most cost-effective approach to
organising learning is within the walls of the school

16. youth digital
network
http://iremix.org/

17. http://youmediachicago.org

19. blended learning
“Blended learning is more effective than either face to face or
online learning by themselves.”
“Between online and face to face instruction, online is at least
as good and may even have the advantage in terms of
improving student achievement and potentially expanding the
amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.”
Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning [The US Department of Education 2009]

20. ‘traditional’ literacy
“.... being able to read and write in the
shared language of a culture.”
Futurelab: Digital participation, digital literacy and school subjects 2009

21. what would education look like if it resembled the culture?

22. digital literacy – more than ict skills
the ability to:
• read & write [create] digital texts
• analyse & evaluate knowledge available on the web
• interacting effectively with online information:
find | sort | navigate | synthesise
• communicate | collaborate | participate
interact safely & ethically

23. the new media literacies
play
performance
simulation
appropriation
multitasking
distributed cognition
collective intelligence
judgement
transmedia navigation
negotiation
networking
Source: http://techtv.mit.edu

24. the current digital landscape demands a totally different
approach to instructional design and teaching methodology
it requires new skills from both teacher and student

25. so plugged in yet so disconnected

26. opportunities
• build on foundations of traditional skills taught in the
classroom
• shifting the focus from individual expression to
community involvement
• the greatest opportunities for change are currently
found in after school programs and informal learning
communities

27. keeping in touch
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