ECS210: Curriculum as (Online)
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February 10, 2014
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Housekeeping
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Attendance
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Submitting assignment two
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Blogs - comment moderation moourl.com/moderation
Getting started
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Think about: When you want to
figure out the answer to a question,
where do you turn?
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https://todaysmeet.com/ECS210
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Today's meet page
The Nature of
Learning
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Digital Delivery
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Interest-Driven
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Skills 2.0
“What we as adults
experienced in school, as
educators and students, will
bear little resemblance to
what lies ahead.”
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/three-trendsthat-will-shape-the-future-of-curriculum/
The advent of the Internet “removes
many constraints of space and time [so
that] some of the current social patterns
that are evident in suburbia or in
workplace offices will not be as much in
evidence in 2020 as technology
reconfigures people’s sense of presence”
(Anderson and Rainie, 2010, p. 15).
Anderson, J. Q., & Rainie, L. (2010a). The future of social relations. Retrieved from Pew Internet
website: http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Future_of_Internet_
2010_social_relations.pdf
Wellman, B. (2002). Little boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism: From little boxes to
social networks. Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II,
Computational and Sociological Approaches. Retrieved from
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/littleboxes/littlebox.PDF
Individual -> Connected
Scarcity -> Abundance
MYOB Learning -> Participation
School learning -> 24/7 Learning
Participation on the web - viral videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxVIwCbBK0
Participation to help others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSSNHO1dDs
#Comments4kids
Participating to learn - Anytime learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuFsDN8dsJU
Crowdsourcing
ideas
Crowdsourcing ideas...
Context Collapse
“Look carefully at a webcam. That’s there. That’s somewhere
else. That could be anybody. On the other side of that little glass
lens is almost everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone
you have ever heard of, and even those you have never heard
of. In more specific terms, it is everyone who has or will have
access to the Internet—billions of potential viewers, and your
future self among them. Some have called it at once the biggest
and the smallest stage—the most public space in the world,
entered from the privacy of our own homes.” - Michael Wesch
http://krex.kstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/6302/Wesch
EME2009.pdf?sequence=1
Obvious to you, amazing to others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmI5SSQLmE
So what does this
mean for teaching and
learning?
“I
don’t
think
education
is
about
centralized
instruction
anymore;
rather,
it
is
the
process
establishing
oneself
as
a
node
in
a
broad
network
of
distributed
creativity”
(Ito,
2011, p. D9).
Ito, J. (2011, December 6). In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New
York Times, p. D9. Retrieved from
http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.uregina.ca:2048/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE|A2741
94814&v=2.1&u=ureginalib&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w&authCount=1
Howard Rheingold - Media Labs Speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvnpW8sdHNQ
21st century literacies
NCTE http://www.ncte.org/governance/21stcenturyframework
Teaching our students the skills they will need for their
future careers
Modeling
digital literacies
Collaboration
Sharing
knowledge
with the
world
How we allow students to learn and express their
learning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY
So what can we do about it
NOW?
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Blogging/Tweeting in ECS210
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Connecting with others
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Building our own positive, digital identities
How might the changing nature of
learning and the increased
prevalence of technology be related
to social justice and anti-oppressive
education? What is made
possible/impossible by these tools
and this type of learning?