make social media work for you: tech hui 2011
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Presentation to students at the 2011 Tech Hui event, Wellington.TRANSCRIPT
Social media: Make it work for you
Karen Melhuish
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Warning!
This is NOT about technology!
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa
Connect to learn….
Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
"Communities of practice are our first knowledge-based structures”
(Wenger, McDermott & Snyder, 2002)
By Isherb (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
A successful learner….Drives their own learning
Can connect with and relate to others
in communities
Ask questions and pursue answers
Reflect on their progresstowards goals
Today, with the complementary nature of sociocultural theory and
collaborative learning tools, learning is…fundamentally social and derived
from authentic engagement with others in a community of practice
(Bonk & Cunningham, 1998 citing Kahn, 1993)
Anyone can connect, share, collaborate, negotiate, relate to others, exchange ideas, participate, debate, discuss to learn….
EasilyGloballyAnytime
AnywhereFor free
Your personal learning network#tag
Filter Search
http://www.studyit.org.nz
Find your focus
Reflect. Connect.Reflect some more…
http://alicepyne.blogspot.com/
Your Purpose
renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
The People
Art by Terry Dodson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men | http://www.offsitedatabackup.com/blog/index.php/2010/10/internet-privacy-the-venn-diagram/
The Process
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Passport_to_the_World.png
If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
Nancy White, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006