This document discusses the impact of emerging technologies on education and learning. It explores how knowledge is acquired and shared in a networked world, and how this has shifted views on learning from individual to social models. Challenges for teachers are discussed, such as dealing with issues like copyright and offensive content in a more open environment. The document advocates developing skills like media literacy, critical thinking and using new media tools to enhance learning.

1. Network Literacy
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2. #edst499k
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3. Who is this guy?
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4. Winners
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5. Heroes
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6. Open Courses
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9. Who are you?
Thoughts & experience re:
on technology & learning?
What do you feel have been the
big changes wrt education?
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10. Knowledge
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11. A Connected Reality
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12. A Connected Reality
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13. Knowledge & Computing
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14. Shifts in Education
Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning
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16. Power & Control
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17. Power & Control
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18. Key Questions
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what
we know?
• why do we know what
we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
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19. Forms of Openness
open education
free software
open source software
open educational resources
open content
open access publication
open access courses open teaching
open accreditation
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20. Influences
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21. Available Tools
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22. open content, access, Accessible Knowledge
publication, accreditation
how we view learning -
institutional & informal
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23. Social Reading
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24. Toward Web 3.0
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25. How do learners deal
with the reliability of
information? How do we
verify what is ‘true’?
How do we manage the
ever increasing flow of
information?
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26. Social Networks
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27. Social Networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
connections, collaboration,
community.
• networks formed around
shared interests & objects.
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29. Human Network
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30. Human Network
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31. Netbooks - 1:1
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32. Microblogging
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33. Nearly Now
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35. As we approach a reality of reduced physical
boundaries & greater connectedness, what
are the professional & pedagogical challenges
faced by teachers? How do we overcome these?
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36. Personal Learning Networks
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37. The Way We Were
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38. Rise of the PLN
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39. My Blog, My Hub
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40. Photo Sharing
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41. Video Sharing
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42. Spontaneous PD
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43. Social Network Services
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44. Slide Decks
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45. Copyleft
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50. How should schools deal with
content ownership, student
publishing, & sharing? Also,
what are the benefits and/or
drawbacks of sharing &
openness in schools?
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51. Media Literacy
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52. Media Literacy
• Accessing, analyzing,
evaluating, and creating
messages in a variety of
forms.
• Enable skillful creators,
consumers, and
disseminators of media.
• Facilitate an
understanding of
strengths, weaknesses,
and influences of media
forms.
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53. Offensive Content
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54. Offensive Content
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55. Offensive Content
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy
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56. Critical Thinking
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57. Critical Thinking
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58. Critical Thinking
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59. Critical Thinking
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60. Critical Thinking
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61. Critical Thinking
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62. Cyberbullying
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63. Each technology
creates a new
environment.
The old environment
becomes content for
the new environment.
The effects of media
come from their form
not their content.
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66. Spread of Media
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67. Spread of Media
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68. Spread of Media
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69. Spread of Media
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70. Viral Videos
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71. Spread of Choice
Control & Media
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72. Sociality
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73. Disruptive Forms
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74. Disruptive Forms
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75. Surveillance Society
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76. Transmedia
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77. Transmedia
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78. What are strategies for
understanding new &
emerging media? How do
we become participants?
How do we encourage and
assess new forms of
creativity in our
classroom?
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79. In Practice
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80. Grade One - Expert Visits
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81. Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
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82. Grade Five - Choir on Youtube
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83. Grade Seven/Eight - Classroom Studio
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84. High School Math - Scribe Posts
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85. University History - Twitter
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86. Virtual Office Hours
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87. New Roles for Educators
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88. What do you
want to learn?
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89. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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