Digital technologies are often presented as tools for education, but the most important tools are the conceptual ones - the ones that give us scope to re-think what we do with classrooms. Keynote for Swedish educators, in the context of many Swedish municipalities adopting 1:1 (one student, one device) technology policies.

1. Network Education:
Some Thinking Tools
Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island
August 2014

2. ME -------à

3. 1 : 1
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4. North America is jealous

5. But also terrified

6. Pedagogy
^
Technology
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7. NETWORK EDUCATION
• Information Abundance: context
• New Ethos: pedagogical approach
• Literacies: goal(s)

8. Context

9. What is education for?

10. We cannot talk about education
without talking about literacies

11. Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to
Knowledge

12. Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of
Knowledge

13. Literacies, 2014 BCE = Management &
Synthesis of Knowledge

15. Information Abundance
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16. Structure of Abundance = Networks

19. To network education
is to model the literacies for
making sense &
contributing knowledge
within information abundance.

20. …but abundance can become overload.
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21. “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.”
- Clay Shirky, 2008
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FINE THEN.

22. Traditional Media Literacy Filters =
Judgment, Analysis, Critical Thinking
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23. But those are no longer sufficient.
Not all media information is coming
from institutions
- or via broadcast - any longer.

24. hps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for consuming,
but connecting.

25. Literate network citizens need to
be able to filter AND contribute
within the constant, intermeshed
streams of abundance,
without drowning.

26. Oh Good. Easy.
J

27. hahahahahaha

28. Challenges of 1:1?
#NetworkEdLin

29. Pedagogical Approach

30. Technologies do not necessarily
change the ways we approach learning
hp://www.onlineuniversiDes.com/blog/2012/08/teaching-­‐with-­‐tablets/

31. Networks are not about
online/offline

32. New tech + old approaches
new literacies

33. New literacies = New ethos
“What is central to new literacies is
not the fact that we can now “look
up information online” or write
essays using a word processor
rather than a pen…but rather, that
they mobilize very different kinds of
values and priorities and
sensibilities.”
- Knobel Lankshear (2007)

34. Network Pedagogies
• Learner-driven
• Participatory
• Differentiated
• Experiential

35. (sometimes you don’t even need tech)
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36. Goal(s)

37. Wait…what about standards?
And measurement?
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38. A networked education…
l Connects
l Cultivates
l Curates
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39. …but cannot
control or count
in the same ways as
institutional models of education

40. New Ethos Literacy = Attention

41. New Ethos Literacy = Contribution

42. New Ethos Literacy = Connection

43. New Ethos Literacy = Collaboration

44. New Ethos Literacy =
Critical Consumption

45. Pedagogical Differences
Institutions
product-focused
mastery
bounded by time/space
hierarchical ties
plagiarism
authority in role
audience = teacher
Networks
process-focused
participation
always accessible
peer-to-peer ties
crowdsourcing
authority in reputation
audience = world

46. Or…the short form:

47. But.

48. Don’t assume networks are
inherently equalizing

49. Last Word:
Practice what you teach.

50. Thank you.
@bonstewart
bstewart@upei.ca