Open Scholarship & Connected Learning

Open Scholarship & Connected Learning

PELeCON
April 19, 2012
Plymouth UK
Dr. Alec Couros

Thinning Walls

Private Public

Closed Open

knowledge
• 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?

human thought/ideas

human language
source code

high-level language
(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)

low-level language
(assembly language)

code irretrievable

machine code
(binary)

“Linux is subversive. Who would have
thought even ﬁve years ago that a
world-class operating system could
coalesce as if by magic out of part-time
hacking by several thousand
developers scattered all over the
planet, connected by only tenuous
strands of the Internet.”
(Raymond, 1997)

“A key to transformation is for the
teaching profession to establish
innovation networks that capture
the spirit and culture of hackers -
the passion, the can-do, the
collective sharing.”
(Hargreaves, 2003)

21st Century Learning Networks

power, control & fear
as key barriers

Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, ﬁrm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)

From
NAGPS
(2011)
via
h4p://bit.ly/oIwVut

shifts in edtech Group growth
Individual growth

Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning

Network Literacies

• “Understanding how
networks work is one of
the most important
literacies of the 21st
century.” (2010)

Howard Rheingold

Politics

http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

God bless you and your family
through this difﬁcult time.

My best attempt, I only
removed the tubing, left
colors and levels alone. I
am sorry for your loss.

I color corrected the
skintones a bit as well.

minor lighting, a 6 x 4 crop for printing in standard size &
removed some of the background.
well done fellow redditors !!!!

OK black background gone. Sorry it took so long, had
to start over. Thanks again to wahoorob for doing the
hard part.

Sorry for the late help. I went
for simplicity. Enjoy - and I
hope you remember her well.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dolmansaxlil/4802611949/

Children and young people are described as ‘the
collaboration generation’, eager to work together
towards common goals, share content and draw upon
“the power of mass collaboration”. This combination of
individualisation and collaboration is often presented
as giving young people a propensity to question,
challenge and critique. These are individuals who
“typically can’t imagine a life where citizens didn’t
have the tools to constantly think critically, exchange
views, challenge, authenticate, verify, or debunk.

The Digital Native - Myth & Reality, Selwyn (2009)

“... age is not a determining factor in
students’ digital lives; rather, their familiarity
and experience using ICTs is more relevant.”

“... the notion of ‘digital natives’ is inaccurate:
those with such attributes are effectively a
digital elite. Instead of a new net generation
growing up to replace an older analogue
generation, there is a deepening digital
divide ... characterized not by age but by
access and opportunity.”

“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the
meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a
fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”

Lowenstein, 1999

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

“...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western
governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get
their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker

what does it mean when
you like something?

“Technological fluency means much more
than the ability to use technological tools;
that would be equivalent to understanding a
few common phrases in a language. To
become truly fluent in a language (like
English or French), one must be able to
articulate a complex idea or tell an engaging
story -- that is, to be able to make things of
significance with these tools. ”

The Computer Clubhouse: Technology Fluency in the Inner City, Resnick, Rusk, & Cooke (1998)

The Difference Between Digital Literacy & Digital Fluency, C. Briggs (2011)

On Digital Video

• “Ten years ago, not one student in
a hundred, nay, one in a thousand,
could have produced videos like
this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital
and important skill, and one
utterly necessary not simply from
the perspective of creating but
also of comprehending video
Stephen Downes communication today.

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/

“To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”

“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”

how are you making learning visible?

how are you contributing to
the learning of others?

Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore

http://couros.ca
couros@gmail.com
@courosa

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