The document outlines a shift from traditional classroom-based teaching to more open, online and collaborative learning. It discusses three tenets of the instructor's teaching: openness, social media, and student voice/choice. The aim is to choose openness where possible by using open resources, creating works to share under Creative Commons licenses, and sharing learning openly including one's own. Social media is said to enable connection and learning across boundaries of time and space traditionally imposed. Students are to be given many opportunities to choose and create topics, assessment, media and tools.
Transforming Teaching and Learning with Openness, Social Media and Student Choice
1.
2. instructor-led → student-led
individual → collaborative
in class → online, open
1 classroom →
authentic learning
3. 3 tenets of my teaching
openness • social media • student voice/choice
4. openness • social media • student voice/choice
AIM:
choose openness
where possible & where appropriate
USE open resources
CREATE create to share, CC-licensed
SHARE openly, including my/our own learning
5. openness • social media • student voice/choice
Social Media
enables connection and learning
across the (artificial) boundaries
of time and space
TIME... class time, term time, academic year
SPACE... classrooms, labs, desks, buildings
6. openness • social media • student voice/choice
Use as many opportunities
as possible for students to
Choose & Create.
TOPICS ASSESSMENT
MEDIA RUBRICS
TOOLS ...
8. Stages of Research
Research Tools
Define the Search
research engines, Wikipedi
question a
(THINK before
you SEARCH) Google Scholar
Read &
Refine Advanced Search
Read Library resources:
selectively, activ Books,
ely, critically Electronic
journals, Databas
es
21. digital curation
“organizing, filtering and
‘making sense of’ information on the web
and sharing the very best of content
with your network”
- Judy O’Connell
My compass for these explorations is AUTHENTIC LEARNINGLearn by Doing. In real-world contexts, if possible. facilitate self-directed and independent learning encourage confidence & cultivate skills such as judgement & flexibility (a challenge for most learners!)Authentic learning is often “messy”, as is real-life!
DI = the persona we present across all digital communities It is often said that we leave our "digital footprint" behind as we share and interact online. Elements of our DI include information that we create ourselves -- as well as information about us which is posted by others.In class, we discussed DI:Protect your digital identityProactively choose/create your digital identity an act of identity construction, “self authoring”
What *is* privacy?Is it closing the door? Is it closing the door to whom we wish, when we wish?The nature of digital artefacts is that it is very, very difficult to ensure the privacy of ANYthing online!Mark Zuckerberg, asserts that sharing or "public" is the new social norm. Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, acknowledges that fear accompanies the adoption of any new technology and notes that "we will make a lot of mistakes as we develop social norms around how to treat information online". Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together, maintains that democracy requires that we retain a zone of privacy around the individual.danahboyd writes about being aware of an "invisible audience" -- defines 4 key characterisics of information (about us) which exist online. Persistent: recorded & archivedReplicable: can be duplicatedScalable: potential visibility is greatSearchable: accessible through searchPrivacy on Twitter – it doesn’t existPrivacy on Google+ ... set up circles... But they are leaky! Private posts can be shared Circles can be invited others (and others can do this!)
We have to embrace play!Moodle/BB = students are themselvesTwitter / SN’s = anything they want to be value here, but we must be willing to accept & engage.Web *IS* a place for play & experimentation... pseudonyms, avatars, different IDs in different placesWe *ALL* do this to a certain extent!We must allow our students to do the same.
The idea behind curators and content curation is that there is such a flood of new content pouring through the Internet pipes these days that being aware of all of it and sorting it out in meaningful ways is simply not possible. Curators are people or organizations that do the hard work of sifting through the content within a particular topic area or “meme” and pulling out the things that seem to make most sense. This effort involves significantly more than finding and regurgitating links, though.locating and evaluating valuable contentorganizing and connecting content so that it is as accessible as possiblecreating and re-purposing content when it adds to the underlying valuecapitalizing on the Social Web to build connections and contextbuilding trusted relationships with learners and other curatorsdesign learning experiences (in a much broader sense than traditional approaches)Bottom line: A curator is an individual or organization who excels at helping others make sense.