digital identity and personal learning networks
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This is the workshop I led at the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Summer School. #sedass12TRANSCRIPT
Sue Beckingham SEDA Summer School
Digital Identity and Personal
Learning Networks
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
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)
Digital Identity
Activity
In pairs share what you think a digital
identity means
10 minutes
Your Digital IdentityWhat you say
What you shareWho you knowWhere you areYour settings
Anything digitally represented on a file or on the web
Profiles, Contacts, Images, Audio,
Video, Data, Documents, Favourites,
Websites, Blogs and more…
And here's a "Reality" Check
Question
Where is this data collected?
Commerce
Communication
Search Engines
DATA
What goes out there stays out there
Communication Spectrum
• Collaborating• Moderating• Negotiating• Debating• Commenting• Net meeting, Skyping,
Video Conferencing• Reviewing• Questioning
• Replying• Posting and Blogging• Networking• Contributing• Chatting• E-mailing• Twittering/microblogging• Instant Messaging• Texting
Churches, A. (2009) Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomyhttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
Various adaptations of the model
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
LOTS Lower Order Thinking Skills
HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills
designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making, programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-
ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing, broadcasting.
checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, blog commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating,
networking, refactoring, testing.
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking, media
clipping.
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing.
Interpreting, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, boolean searches, blog journaling,
twittering, categorising, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing.
Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking,
favouriting/local bookmarking, searching, googling.
Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomy
Churches, A. (2009)
Quiet reflection:
• What would be advantageous to share?
• What should we be careful about sharing?
• Where does this conversation take place with students?
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
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
…and
“Social Media gives more people a voice and provides a powerful tool for value
creation and competitive differentiation”
Advanced Human Technologies 2010
Scaffolded Learning throughPersonal 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
“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
A quick look inside my PLN Toolbox
• browse > engage > share > amplify • follow selectively• consider your online 'voice'/identity
@drdjwalker 2011
Where to start?
A PLN for asking and answering questions
A PLN to collaborate on projects and research
A PLN to get feedback on your work or inspiration from others
A PLN may include following blogs and websites
A PLN may include tools to help you get organised
A PLN may also include a private space to reflect
Potential Filtering System
Information need Critical evaluation SelectionCollaborative filtering
Technological algorithmsPersonalised algrorithms (RSS)Social algorithms
Jones and Hafner 2012
(Perkin 2010)
International School Bangkok http://isb21.wikispaces.com/
21st Century Literacy Skills
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)
Together creating a safe and scaffolded approach is key to developing the digital skills
both our students and ourselves need
In pairs discuss how a PLN could be of
use to:
• You as an Educator• As a teacher• As a student
15 minutes3 different coloured post-its
Sue BeckinghamEducational Developer
Faculty of ACES
Sheffield Hallam Uni
@suebeckshttp://uk.linkedin.com/in/suebeckinghamhttp://gplus.to/suebecks