1. Digital Identity
and Personal
Learning
Networks
Sue Beckingham
SEDA Summer School
2. Aims
Aims
• Share our
understanding of
digital identity
• Consider how digital
technologies can be
used to develop a
‘PLN’
• Discuss why this may
be important as 21st
century life long
learners
3. Identity
“It is difficult to craft a formal definition of identity.
Basically, the essential and unique
characteristics of an entity are what identify it.
These characteristics might include, among
other things, the unchanging physical traits of the
person, his preferences, or other people's
perceptions of the individual's personality”.
(Abelson and Lessig 1998)
6. Your Digital Identity
What you say Profiles, Contacts,
Images, Audio,
What you share Anything digitally Video, Data,
Who you know represented on a Documents,
file or on the web Favourites,
Where you are
Websites, Blogs
Your settings and more…
14. Quiet reflection:
• What would be
advantageous to
share?
• What should we be
careful about
sharing?
• Where does this
conversation take
place with students?
15. What is the value of being online?
• Can increase access to learning.
• Enables and provides support for learning
• Can increase the effectiveness of learning
• Allows people to connect with each other in spite
of geographical distances/time differences
• Complements face to face communication
• The opportunity for informal and personal
learning
• Provides a forum and permission to participate
Adapted from George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org
16. Why Social Media is important
The power of online connections
• maintain connections
• develop global connections
• ongoing 24/7 networking
• opportunity to learn and share
• ability to be known and found
• six degrees of separation
• recruitment/job seeking
• develop a personal brand
17. …and
“Social Media gives more people a voice
and provides a powerful tool for value
creation and competitive differentiation”
Advanced Human Technologies 2010
18. Scaffolded Learning through
Personal Learning Networks
What is scaffolding used for?
It's not used to support the
building, because that must
ultimately stand on its own.
No, scaffolding is there to
support the building process -
and to support the builders
themselves.
(Wheeler 2009)
Scaffolded Learning - Bruner
19. “The scaffolding represents the
learner's Personal Learning Network (PLN) (to
some degree, at least), enabling the learner to
build new knowledge through their interactions
with a range of other people and resources…
…social learning fundamentally occurs through our
attempts to negotiate meaning with others and
recognising holes in our existing knowledge as a
result”.
Parslow 2009
24. A PLN to get feedback on your work or
inspiration from others
25. A PLN may include following blogs and
websites
26. A PLN may include tools to help you get
organised
27. A PLN may also include a
private space to reflect
28. Potential Filtering System
Technological algorithms
Personalised algrorithms (RSS)
Social algorithms
Information need
Critical evaluation
Selection
Collaborative filtering
Jones and Hafner 2012
30. 21st Century Literacy Skills
International School Bangkok http://isb21.wikispaces.com/
31. New Literacies for Networked
Individuals
• Graphic literacy e.g. infographics
• Navigation literacy i.e. internet geography
• Context and connections literacy i.e. PLNs
• Focus literacy i.e. time for solitude switch
• Multitasking literacy i.e. appliances, people
• Scepticism literacy i.e. ‘crap detection’
• Ethical literacy i.e. trust
Rainie and Wellman (2012)
32. Together creating a safe and scaffolded
approach is key to developing the digital skills
both our students and ourselves need
33. In pairs discuss how
a PLN could be of
use to:
• You as an Educator
• As a teacher
• As a student
15 minutes
3 different coloured post-its
34. Sue Beckingham
Educational Developer
Faculty of ACES
Sheffield Hallam Uni
@suebecks
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham
http://gplus.to/suebecks
Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction - Jones and Hafner 2012
Unable as yet to find original sourcehttp://jperk30.edublogs.org/2010/06/19/action-elearning-as-a-model-for-effective-teacher-professional-development/
Networked – Rainieand Wellman 2012‘Crap detection’ Howard Rheingold