Slides used to facilitated the Introduction to Connected Learning session in #etmooc (http://etmooc.org). Supporting resources found at: http://bit.ly/Xv3R3P

1. Connected Learning
#etmooc - January 20 - February 2, 2013

2. #etmooc

3. introductions

6. memories of media past

7. what are your memories of
(media, information, educational) technology?

8. Handheld

9. Multi-Player

10. Piracy

11. Adaptation

12. Personalization

13. Troubleshooting

14. Mobile

15. Edtech

16. Edtech

17. Wealth of Human Knowledge

19. Convergence
Ubiquity

20. significant shifts
atoms <-----> bits
scarcity <-----> abundance
consuming <-----> creating
individuals <-----> networks
control <-----> freedom

21. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

22. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html

23. photographed by
George Couros

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/2944876508/sizes/o/

28. "To immortalize this
moment ... the girl seems to
forget the original pleasure."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alainbachellier/2572801898/in/photostream/

29. (making sense of)
connected learning

30. how should we, as teachers and learners, respond
to this highly connected, information-rich reality?

32. connectedlearning.tv

34. Free & Open Source

35. How Knowledge is Controlled
“given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow”
(Linus’ Law, Raymond 1997)

36. 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)

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

38. On Sharing ...
“it’s about overcoming
the inner 2 year old in
you that screams
mine, mine, it’s mine.”
(Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)

39. Leveraging Networks
“Open source software
communities are one of the most
successful -- and least
understood -- examples of high
performance collaboration and
community building on the
Internet today.”
(Kim, 2003)

40. Networked Affordances

41. Social Networking Services

42. Six Degrees of Separation
“the idea that everyone is on average six
steps away, by way of introduction, from
another person in the world.”

44. Strength of Weak Ties
“There is strength in weak ties. Our
acquaintances, not our friends, are potentially
our greatest source of new ideas and
information.” (paraphrased from Gladwell, 2010)

45. Where Good Ideas Come From
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit
around in glorious isolation and try to think big
thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the
table.” (Steven Johnson, 2010)

46. “Chance favors the connected mind”
~ Stephen Johnson
@npyrini
@elenelli

47. networks
1. as mechanisms: enable communication &
collaboration in ways that were once impossible.
2. for inspiration: connect us to new ideas &
expand our thinking & potential for innovation.
* ‘us’ meaning those who are increasingly literate

48. Leveraging Networks

50. “For Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin
released the entire eBook on the Internet for
free, which led to eventual publishing deals in
41 countries and a public speaking career.”

53. “... it would be an album only
heard by playing the songs.”

54. Crowdsourcing

57. “the song intentionally lacked a
copyright so that people would
be encouraged to create their
own online parodies, in essence
their own "XYZ Style"”

58. PLNs/PLEs

59. what is a PLN?

60. “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, collective
sharing.”
~ Hargreaves, 2003

61. see: “Principles of Connectivism”

65. @langwitches

66. @langwitches

67. @langwitches

68. Stylianos Mystikidas

69. Michael Paskevicius

70. @sleslie

72. “A rhizomatic plant has no centre and no defined
boundary; rather, it is made up of a number of semi-
independent nodes, each of which is capable of
growing and spreading on its own, bounded only by
the limits of its habitat. (~Dave Cormier)

73. social learning

74. shifts in edtech Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning

85. “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.”

86. slide by Dean Shareski

87. Informal Learning
• “Informal learning is a
significant aspect of our
learning experience.
Formal education no
longer comprises the
majority of our learning.”
•
George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

88. “A New Culture of Learning”
• “The new culture of learning actually
comprises two elements. The first is
a massive information network that
provides almost unlimited and
resources to learn about anything.
@douglast The second is a bounded and
structured environment that allows
@jseelybrown
unlimited agency to build and
experiment with things within those
boundaries.” (2011)

89. slide by Dean Shareski

90. slide by Dean Shareski

91. slide by Dean Shareski

92. concluding thoughts

93. (Joichi Ito)

94. “The developed world is in
the midst of a paradigm
shift both in the ways in
which people and
institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being
bound up in homogenous
“little boxes” to surfing life
through diffuse, variegated
@barrywellman social networks.” (2002)

96. blog fodder

97. Thinking Points
•What does my PLE/PLN look like? How can I share it?
•How important is connected learning? Why?
•Is it possible for our classrooms and institutions to support
this kind of learning? If so, how?
•What skills and literacies are necessary for connected
learning? How do we develop these?
•What are limits of openness in regards to privacy &
vulnerability? Are we creating or worsening a digital divide?
•How do we expand this conversation?
•Your questions?

99. join me in the
the first ever
MOOC-enabled
lip dub?

100. song nominations?

101. process

102. “Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time.” ~Tagore
http://couros.ca
couros@gmail.com
@courosa