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Jan-Feb 2013 EVO Week 5 Focus

Week 5 in
Multiliteracies for Social Networking and
Collaborative Learning Environments
FOCUS in the Multiliteracies course
February 11-17, 2013
Theme
Focusing all the lenses: technological, pedagogical, social, sociopolitical, & ecological
FINALLY, we put here issues that come up during the first 5 weeks and address them in the context of the five lenses from our course text by Mark Pegrum, and from our experiences with http://change.mooc.ca .
Of course, our participants might have other ideas. After 5 weeks of orienting, networking, and clustering, it is often hard to focus. In that case, we'll go with the flow.
- Content
- Synchronous discussion
- What issues have come up during this course and how can we couch these issues in the frameworks we have looked at?
- Projects
- Participants should present their e-portfolios or any artifacts created in conjunction with this course, ideally online on or around Oct 2, 2011, 15:30 GMT, or thereabouts
- Tools
- Participants use tools most appropriate to their presentations
We suggest the following for additional insights and information ...
What directions and tangents might multiliteracies and educational technology take in the coming years?
Let's start with the past. Here Stephen Downes updates some predictions from 15 years ago ...
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html
Lidija Davis makes some Predictions Across the Web
Her last resource cited is the Future of the Internet III from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_predictions_across_the_we.php
How might the following impact education with respect to multiliteracies?
Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the future social, political, and economic impact of the Internet and they said the following:
• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the
world in 2020.
• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily
yield more personal integrity. social tolerance, or forgiveness.
• Talk and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by
2020.
• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in
a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content
without payment.
• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual
reality will be further erased for everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in terms
of social relations.
• “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is
more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.
The future of the Internet and HOW TO STOP IT
is a great open eBook by Jonathan Zittrain, which you can download free from
http://futureoftheinternet.org/.
The book characterizes the wild west past of the Internet (free, open source, and generative, but plagued with concomitant problems from hackers, uneven quality control) vs the way it's trending now, toward locked down appliance apps where vendors control qualilty (that's good) but also what you can do with and add to the app (that's not so good). The book's last chapter is about what we can do to reconcile these forces, before it's too late (gulp!).
ePortfolios
Our resources for Me-Portfolios have been consolidated <== here. and below
Jennifer Verschoor found some resources on eportolios and posted them to our YahooGroup list
Here are some teacher ePortfolios:
Vance retweeted this, Sept 25, 2010

Buth tweeted back:

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