Who Are We Now That We’re Online? Connected Learners, Connected Educators CONNECT 2013 Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart University of Prince Edward Island
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Who Are We Now That We’re Online? Connected Learners, Connected
Educators
CONNECT 2013
Bonnie Stewart��@bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island
Education = Multiple axes of change
knowledge scarcity
knowledge abundance
open
public funding
neoliberal markets
closed
Increasing pressure to go online
Going online means moving away from institutional concepts
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Newly emerging species: open, public learner/educators
Online networks enable different forms of identity,
legitimacy, and belonging
than institutions do
Who are we when we’re online?
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Ourselves
Always Faceted
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Always staring down identity
choices as the cursor blinks
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Networked Identity Roles = Multiple, Public, Participatory
Always Connected
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My local cohort
My cohort on Twitter
greater access, diversity, visibility… also increased noise & time.
Networked Publics • Multiple, overlapping, global networks • Always accessible • Identities are visible, traceable & searchable • Different audiences all in plain sight
See Kazys Varnelis, danah boyd, Alice Marwick, Mizuko Ito for more
Who we are is shaped by the context(s)
we’re addressing
The Performative Self
The Quantified Self
The Participatory Self
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The Asynchronous Self
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The Neoliberal Self “Me, Inc.”
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Always Hybrid
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Hard to hear
Different contexts have different legitimacy practices
Institutions Networks product-focused process-focused mastery participation bounded by time/space always accessible hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties plagiarism crowdsourcing authority in role authority in reputation audience = teacher audience = world
The Digital = a Reputational Economy
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Not just for teachers but for students
A networked education…
l Connects
l Cultivates
l Curates
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…but cannot control or count
in the same ways as institutional models of
education
There are many currencies in
online networks
Benefits as thinker: just-in-time emergent, choral
conversation
Benefits as learner & scholar: access, engagement, profile
Benefits as teacher: opportunities to connect & convey info in new media
Benefits as writer: real audiences
…that awkward moment when you remember you friended your grandma
on Facebook. And that your students – and your VP –
follow you on Twitter.
Context Collapse
Institutions & Networks = politics are part of every public
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But so are new ways of belonging
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Get networked. Connect.
Thank you.
@bonstewart
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