Networked learning: experience the educational power of the network and the participatory culture of the web Presented at the Asia Society Ning.com is a free web-based platform that allows users to create their own social networking sites with many of the same features available on Facebook or MySpace. (The word “ning” means “peace” in Chinese.) Sites created with Ning allow virtual communities to form around common interests and around the world. Come explore how participating on a Ning—and even creating your own—enables students and teachers alike to engage in networked learning.

1. Networked Learning: experience the educational power of the network and the participatory culture of the web Honor Moorman Internship and Service Learning Coordinator The International School of the Americas San Antonio, Texas

2. “ As new technologies shape literacies, they bring opportunities for teachers at all levels to foster reading and writing in more diverse and participatory contexts.” “ A Changing World for Literacy Teachers” 21 st -Century Literacies : A Policy Research Brief National Council of Teachers of English, 2007

4. National Council of Teachers of English 21 st Century Literacies

5. What are these new technologies & how are they shaping literacies? “ The read/write web changes everything” ~Will Richardson

6. “ Web 2.0 is an umbrella term that is used to refer to a new era of Web-enabled applications that are built around user-generated or user-manipulated content, such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and social networking sites.” Pew Internet and American Life Project “Research on Web 2.0”

7. Web 2.0 Tools  “Prosumers”

9. Social Networking in Plain English Common Craft Video

10. “ Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.” Confronting the Challenge of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21 st Century Henry Jenkins, et al MacArthur Foundation, 2006

12. “ Literacy encompasses reading, writing, and a variety of social and intellectual practices that call upon the voice as well as the eye and hand. It also extends to new media—including non-digitized multimedia, digitized multimedia, and hypertext or hypermedia.” Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief National Council of Teachers of English, 2007

13. “ Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the 21 st century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies.” Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief National Council of Teachers of English, 2007

14. “ Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the 21 st century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies.” NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment adopted Nov. 19, 2008

15. “ These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities, and social trajectories of individuals and groups.” NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment adopted Nov. 19, 2008

23. ~ Did You Know? 2.0 by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod

27. The Wisdom of Crowds

29. Popular Social Networking Activities