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How I became (blog) literate and what (blog) literacy meant to me

How I became (blog) literate and what (blog) literacy meant to me. Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada June 2, 2006. Is blogging different from writing? The day my life began: Jamie Bell Hemlock Holmes and Higgens Years later… The student newspaper years.

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How I became (blog) literate and what (blog) literacy meant to me

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  1. How I became (blog) literateand what (blog) literacy meant to me Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada June 2, 2006

  2. Is blogging different from writing? • The day my life began: • Jamie Bell • Hemlock Holmes and Higgens • Years later… • The student newspaper years

  3. How I became literate, then… • Was accidental • Happened in the process of doing other things • Could have been different trans-literacy • Is literacy culture? • What are literacy and culture: • One view – filling in the blanks (Kuhn)

  4. What is the culture of learning? • We heard from Barbara Ganley • It is a culture of control • And we have to wonder sometimes, whether control is necessary to achieve the desired outcomes, or whether control is the desired outcome • How does blogging change that?

  5. It doesn’t, necessarily • Take, for example, Scott Wilson’s discussion of organizational cybernetics • We build hierarchical relations into the model • The tension between: • Working within the system • Working with what works

  6. What is the system is broken? • Ganley again: giving up on hope • Perhaps change will come from outside the system • We are not the change, we are not the revolution

  7. What are the digital skills we are teaching? • What is a hyperlink • Spatial awareness – movement of files • How to use a mobile phone • Content awareness • What do we teach ourselves? • Freedom to make mistakes • What about – ‘how to cross the road’

  8. What happens when we grant people their freedom? • Lots of blogging, but not about the class • So should we grant freedom within a framework? • Is blogging even something that belongs in a class? “I’m scared or anything that’s got to be assessed” – a blog is a thing you do where you can think out loud

  9. Blogging as identity and community • Danah Boyd – defining oneself, one’s community • Relation to character building in MUD, personal pages, MySpace • Not just the network of connections • Shared experiences – “Look, he’s standing where I did”

  10. Self as creator vs self as worker • Is teaching work? Is learning work? • Or are these instances of self-expression • Teacher asked: I want to know what my role is • Model of teaching: model and demonstrate • To teach: be the person you want your students to become

  11. A final word • There is no code, no ethic, that will teach us how to be good bloggers, good teachers, good citizens • What matters is that we are honest with ourselves, and that we share without reservation • Culture – like literacy – is negotiated, a conversation between ourselves

  12. http://www.downes.ca

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