Presented at the EDEN's 7th Open Classroom Conference, Porto, October 2009

1. Social software: learning and socializing in networks José Mota Laboratório de Educação a Distância [LEaD] Universidade Aberta Edenopenclassroom Porto 2009

2. WhatI’going to talkabout Whathaschangedinthewayswesocializeandlearn? Whyissocial software important? Whyshouldschoolbepartofthis? 2 2/15

3. Forms of Socialization Forms of socialization have been changing due to technology. Little Boxes to Glocalizationto Networked Individualism (BarryWellman, 2001) 3 3/15

5. encapsulation in homogeneous groups;

6. hierarchical

7. structured4 4/15

9. both local and global;

10. otherneighborhoods, cities, placesintheworld;

11. place-to-place connectivity.5 5/15

13. linking individuals with little regard to space;

14. person-to-person.“The person has become the portal” (Barry Wellman, 2001) 6 6/15

15. Educational Technology Education Beyond the acquisition of knowledge and information - resources and skills for lifelong learning Technology resources and communities for learning, collaborating and building knowledge. EducationalTechnology 7 7/15

17. asking a friend or an expert

18. experimenting and drawing conclusions

19. gathering a group to achieve something

20. observing others

21. exploring new territories

22. talking to other people

23. writing and making diagrams, drawings, movies, music, multimedia

24. inventing new things and ideas

25. comparing different ideas and experiences

26. asking why? how? In what other way? (Jay Lemke, 2002) 8 8/15

28. interaction with the ways in which they translated their thoughts and perspectives into diverse media. From this point of view, learning is a rich, diversified process of encounters and experiences 9 9/15

30. Wikis

31. Twitter

32. Discussionforums

33. Social bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)

34. RSS aggregators (Google Reader, Bloglines)

35. Media sharing (Youtube, Flikr, Slideshare)

36. Virtual worlds (SecondLife)“Software that supports group interaction” (Clay Shirky, 2003) 10 10/15

37. Social and cultural changes Digital technologies new approaches to learning and social interaction Creativity – consumers becoming producers (prosumers) Attention – Continuous partial attention; always on connectivity (Linda Stone, 2005) Identity – consumption and production of digital media; real identity virtual identity (Martin Owen et al., 2006) 11 11/15

38. C-Learning: learning with others From e-learning to c-learning Community Communicative Collaborative Collaborative Learning is based on a social process Image source: Alec Couros (2006) 12 12/15

39. Technologies and learning Old methods with new tools True motivation is to question the pedagogical principles underlying the educational models Evolution from learning about to learning to be Learning as (endless) becoming (UlisesMejias, 2005). Impactof social software onPedagogy desire to connect to the world as a whole, not just the social parts online 13 13/15

40. Bridging online & offline experience False dichotomy between physical and virtual world (cyberspace) Many connections and ties often operate in both dimensions We communicate using the online or offline medium that is available and most adequate at the moment 14 14/15

41. School and digital literacy open up; be connected more permeable to the flow of interactions become an important part of the global discourse thoughtful planning strong awareness of privacy and security of students training of teachers and IT staff involvement of school agents, parents and community 15 15/15

42. e-mail: josecmota@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/josemota