Building Learning Communities: Cultivating #newliteracies

@amyburvallwww.amyburvall.com
CULTIVATING !
#newliteracies
BLC14

open community
http://bit.ly/newlits

What’s “Historyteachers”?

CHOICE andVOICE in
@timbuckteeth

if you want to keep up
with anything it’s not
about keeping up with
technology, it’s about
keeping up with
literacies”
- Howard Rheingold

new skills ever-changing
full participation

performance composition re-contextualization

NEW
digital :

shift from print to pixel

We look at the
present through a
rear view mirror.

We march backwards
into the future
-Marshall McLuhan

NEW
participatory culture :

democratization

+

collaboration

In a hunting culture kids play!
with bows and arrows;
in an information society!
they play with
@henryjenkins

informal learning
shared interest

Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Ivor on Reddit

@dajbelshaw, Mozilla
“Every time you’re given a new tool,!
it gives you a different way of !
impacting upon the world”

DOUG BELSHAW
@dajbelshaw, Mozilla
exploring
connecting
building

SENSE-MAKING
http://www.top10onlinecolleges.org/work-skills-2020/
What is the deeper meaning

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
How can I connect others purposefully

NOVEL, ADAPTIVE THINKING
How can I be ﬂexible and
create new solutions

UNDERSTANDING DATA
How do I best interpret data
and make meaning

CROSS-CULTURAL !
COMPETENCY
How can I work effectively
in different cultural settings

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
How can I ﬁlter, discriminate,
and store information

TRANSDISCIPLINARY
How do I understand concepts
across disciplines

DESIGN MINDSET
How do I develop tasks and processes
for a desired goal

VIRTUAL COLLABORATION
How do I best work with others
in a virtual environment

TRANSMEDIA LITERACY
How do I best leverage new media
for effective communication

Altimeter Group
WATCHING, READING, LURKING
SHARING, RTing, LIKING
COMMENTING, DISCUSSING
CREATING, REPURPOSING
CURATING

HOW TO TEACH FLEXIBILITY
...to deal with new literacies...

ATTENTION COLLABORATION
PARTICIPATION CRAP DETECTION

...being an excellent
researcher with print
does not automatically
make you thorough in a
different medium, the
Web
-Alan November

…a write-able society
-Beth Noveck, TEDGlobal 2012

Ask learners to go BEYOND

declarations of knowledge...
...learners need to CREATE

and SHARE stuff...
...blogs, articles, images,

videos, ARTIFACTS...
-George Siemens, originator of Connectivism Theory

We write the equivalent of

some 36 million books

everyday on social media
and email
Clive Thompson, Wired

@pomeranian99
The Internet has produced !
a foaming Niagra of writing
texts
blogs
email
comments
fan forums
status
tweets

@pomeranian99
Smarter Than You Think

In the digital age, the
ability to contribute to
discourse on a blog or
participate on a social
network is just as vital as
being able to read a
famous work by a well-
known author
Dominic Basulto, BIG THINK

http://amysmooc.wordpress.com/

“though this has nothing to do with any
of the summer assignments,
I just had to share this!
Casey Doyle, student

Listicles - a ﬁnal reﬂection

“video” + “blog”
aka “v-log”
Entered Merriam-
Webster Dictionary in
2009

Why Should StudentsVlog?
personal;
allows for
student voice
easy; cheap; fun dynamic; can
be augmented
natural; part of
“confessional
culture”
less stressful
for some practice

new

literacies
hard to
plagiarize

When toVlog?
during activity after a long time
brieﬂy after

CRAFTING A TWEET
140 char
succinct, rich (like a poem)
public: maintain decorum + spellcheck
etiquette + ampliﬁcation
contribute to collective knowledge

“THE TAG IS...
...THE SOUL OF THE INTERNET”

from practical to META
added commentary;

“muttered into a handkerchief”
HUMOUR SARCASM

TAG TIPS
no spaces
caps don’t matter
no punctuation or special char
numbers ok

kqed.org/donow
REAL ISSUES REAL TOOLS REAL TIME

create a Twitter proﬁle !
for historical / lit ﬁgure

crowdsource a global story!
1 tweet line at a time

remix trending tweets!
into a PSA with music, images

create an image or!
multi-media artifact of a tweet

analyze + predict !
according to trending words

critique a tweeter’s !
arguments or build a case!
made of tweets

paraphrase a book or poem!
using 140 characters

“mimeme”
“imitated

thing”
memetics

Contemporary info-literacy
must involve memes (or
memetics) as to how
information/ideas spread
and why this is important.
Alec Couros, @courosa

“It’s not where you take things
from – it’s where you take them to.
- Jean-Luc Godard

Emily Dickinson’s “Nobody”- remixed to music

Emily Dickinson’s “Nobody”- literary grafﬁti

Lady Baba: Imperfect Verb Tense (Gaga parody)

I Read Some Marx, And I Liked It !
(Katy Perry parody)

“Metro-Mix” Language Learning

Going from

audience of 0-10
Going from

10-1million
“Thinking Out Loud, Clive Thompson, Wired

If social media was a newspaper…
Terry Heick, Edudemic
it’d be like “dropping a student’s story !
on the front step for others to read…!
without this step the story !
is little more than!
and act of compliance !
in pursuit of a grade

David Weinberger:TOO BIG TO KNOW

@instahawaiian
the new resume?

online is the only
space where a
student’s bite

may grow to match
their bark
“On the Internet No One KnowsYou’re a Student”

your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge

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