We have moved into a new media society. Does this change how we learn and what knowledge is? This open forum with faculty explores some of the main issues relations to digital/new media culture and the interconnection between informal and formal education

1. New Media Society :
New Media Pedagog(ies)?
Alexandra Bal,
Notes used at Ryerson University, November 8th, 2010
Open Discussion forum, a forum to exchange and share ideas
and experiences on teaching with new media.
Ad Hoc Social Media Group/XMI

2. Discussion 1: Why are you
here?

3. Our Students?
Source:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june10/millenials_02-24.h
The Alpha Generation
will be in universities
within 7 years

4. Discussion 2: Student Learning
(10 mn)
 What was the most powerful learning
experience for you as a student?
 What would be an equivalent to that
experience for your students today?

5. How do Millennials learn?
Through Experiences:
 Interest based learning
 Search Engines: “Non Discipline
Based Approach”
 Social Media Production
 Gaming: Active Learning

6. Social Media as a Research Tool
University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxrlrbP4UNo&feature=related

7. Search Engines
 Search
 Google search versus the Library

8. Networked Education
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA&feature=player_embedde
•Finding material online:
Common craft
•Creating their own media
messages

9. Gaming as Peer Based
Learners
Source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4453862n
According to Jane mcgonigal, youth spend as much time gaming as
they do in the classroom.

10. Discussion 3: Contemporary
Literacies (10mn)
 What do you think are the most
important skills your learned during
your university education?
 What do you think are the most
important skills a university education
should provide a student today?

11. Digital Citizen
According to Howard Rheingold five
areas of literacies education needs
to addressed
 Attention
 Collaboration
 Critical Consumption
 Network Awareness
 Participation

12. Participation relies on a different
form of intelligence
 Social Intelligence
 The C Factor: Canergie Research
 Collective Intelligence

13. Texting: New
Communication?
◦ Some stats
◦ Some field experiences:
 First year university student: 3000 texts a week
 11 year old in low socio-economic has 6 cell
phones and texts friends daily.
 Short form is key

14. New Language
 Email message:
Hi, I need to see you as soon as
possible to discuss our assignment.
 Text translation :
I nd 2CU ASAP 2 discuss r asynmnt
 Can you come over now, I need to go
to the library later
cn u cum ovr now, I nd 2g2 d lib l8r

15. The Hypertext Mind

16. School Literacy?

17. Discussion 4: Pedagogy and
Curriculum (10 mn)
What activities, if any, do you
think can help promote Digital
and Social citizenry in our
classrooms?

18. Informal Learning Pedagogies
 Creating infrastructures for P2P and
Learning Communities
 Diana Rhoten: (3:40 mn) On The City As
a Classroom
 New Generation Learning Environment
 DMZ is an example of an Informal
Learning Environment

19. Evolution of Bloom Taxonomy

20. Creating is now the Highest
Function

21. Addition of a Media Layer

22. Network Layer Added

23. Learning Taxonomy has to
consider FLEXIBLE Learning
Ecologi(es)
Source:
http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=

24. Social Intelligence = Different
Values
•Jimmy Wales on Collaboration:
Drastic different approach to
ethics and values
•Different values require different
Infrastructures

25. Discussion 5: Barriers to new
literacies in the classroom?
(10mn)
•Can you foster 21st century skills such
as listening, cooperation, sharing,
participation, collective research,
collective making, collective evaluation,
and media making in the classroom?
•Are these skills in conflict with the
ethics of your profession? (e.g.
competition, demonstration of
individual capacity).

26. Resources
 http://newmedialiteracies.org/
 Blip Tv: Howard Rheingold episodes
 Partnership for 21st Century Skills