network education: learning to be literate
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Network Education: learning to be literate
Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island January 2015
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We cannot talk about education without talking about literacies
Literacy = tools + concepts
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Networks connect people to each other
(When we let them)
Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to Knowledge
Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of Knowledge
Literacies, 2015 BCE = Management & Synthesis of Knowledge
Knowledge Abundance
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Structure of Abundance = Networks
To network education is to model the literacies for
making sense & contributing knowledge
within information abundance.
Text
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Broadcast media
But not all media & information is coming from institutions
- or via broadcast - any longer.
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Networks are not just for consuming, but connecting.
So this is great! We all like different colours!
We are special snowflakes!
…And then there’s schooling.
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Three facts:
(Um…schools are systems.)
#1.
#2.
#3.
So just throw everybody onto social media?
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But schools need to learn & model good network literacies
Not just judge.
A networked teacher is always a learner, too.
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Key Literacies to Learn & Foster
Literacies of critical consumption
Literacies of connection
“The internet is on principle a system that you reveal yourself to in order to fully
enjoy, which differentiates it from, say, a music player. It is a TV that watches you.”
- Edward Snowden, in The Washington Post
Literacies of privacy
Literacies of power & privilege
Literacies of conflict management
Literacies of contribution & collaboration
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Literacies of care
Network Pedagogies
• Learner-driven • Participatory • Differentiated • Experiential
