Digital Identity and Student Engagement
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Webinar for Staff Development Day at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick - 10th June 2013
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- 1. ImageCCBY-NC-ND2.0FredericPoirot Digital Identity and Student Engagement: Staff Development Day – Mary Immaculate College Catherine Cronin • NUI Galway• 10/06/13
- 3. CC images: Laenulfean, nuigalway Academic coordinator #ITonline Lecturer (sic) #ct231 Networked educator #edchatIE
- 4. “I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.” – Joichi Ito (2011) Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink
- 5. I. Exploring Digital Identity II. One story III. Considerations for Academic & Support staff
- 6. I. Exploring Digital Identity II. One story III. Considerations for Academic & Support staff
- 7. by you about you digital identity = who you are online
- 8. what is the GAP between our online & offline selves? Image CC BY-NC 2.0 tanakawho
- 9. Image CC BY-NC-ND Will Foster
- 10. digital dualism physical world digital world ‘REAL’ ‘VIRTUAL’
- 11. ...our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits. Nathan Jurgenson (2011) @nathanjurgenson Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality
- 12. It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life. Nathan Jurgenson (2012) The IRL Fetish
- 14. I. Exploring Digital Identity II. One story III. Considerations for Academic & Support staff
- 15. 2nd year module, BSc Computer Science & IT ct231.wordpress.com
- 16. “If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face... [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting the negotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practices.” CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 choconancy1 Etienne Wenger SRHE Conference 2010 Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice in deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader
- 17. Knowledge of digital tools Critical thinking Social engagement Definition by Tabetha Newman, adapted by Josie Fraser http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2012/03/digital-literacy-practice.html definition of digital literacies
- 19. “Recently our class has begun to use more social networking sites like Facebook and tools like DropBox to share notes and keep up to date with lectures. I found this to be a great benefit in studying and managing my work.” Social media... #studentvoice
- 20. “Strange putting a face to the voice of my first year maths lecturer! Khan Academy is possibly one of the most useful sources for students studying maths. The idea is simple, If you don't understand the first time you watch it... watch it again.” Khan Academy... #studentvoice
- 21. Twitter @CT231
- 22. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Frank Wuestefeld privacy
- 23. “Nowadays people have to be extremely careful with the information they put on the internet because they never know who is reading it. On social network you have to be careful with who you follow, who follows you, and who your friends are.” #studentvoice Privacy
- 24. It’s not who you share with, but who you share as. Chris Poole @moot (2011) High Order Bit Image CC BY-NC 2.0 redmaxwell
- 25. “On Facebook it gives very little information on me as my profile is private to unknown persons. My Twitter account will show a purely educational social aspect, as I only joined Twitter when we started using it in conjunction with our subject. My YouTube account is completely anonymous as my username has no connection to my actual name.” #studentvoice Privacy
- 26. Image: CC BY 2.0 joi Howard Rheingold @hrheingold rheingold.com
- 27. Image: uvenus.org digital identities Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart theory.cribchronicles.com 6 Key Selves of Networked Publics: • Performative Self • Quantified Self • Participatory Self • Asynchronous Self • Enmeshed Self • Neoliberal Self
- 31. #icollab
- 32. #studentvoice
- 33. #studentvoice
- 36. I. Exploring Digital Identity II. One story III. Considerations for Academic & Support staff
- 37. Learners need to practice and experiment with different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt subject positions through different social technologies and media. These opportunities can only be supported by academic staff who are themselves engaged in digital practices and questioning their own relationship with knowledge. - Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010) Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age
- 39. semi-open real name any photo 1 identity: social Managing Identity Online open any name photo/avatar unlimited IDs: interest-driven open real name ID photo 1 identity: professional closed real name photo? 1 identity: student/lecturer
- 40. “The onus is on us as scholars to understand the possibilities that the intersection of digital, network and open approaches allow... The adoption of the functions of engagement, experimentation, reflection and sharing will generate the resilient scholarship of the next generation.” - Martin Weller (2012)
- 41. CCBY-NC2.0Idrose
- 42. Thank you! Catherine Cronin catherine.cronin@nuigalway.ie slideshare.net/cicronin about.me/catherinecronin Image CC BY 2.0 visualpanic
- 43. Exploring digital identity with our students (2012) by Catherine Cronin (@catherinecronin) Social network sites as networked publics (2010) by danah boyd (@zephoria) Digital identities: Six key selves of networked publics (2012) by Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart) Digital dualism and the fallacy of web objectivity (2012) by Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson) You are not your name and photo: A call to reimagine identity (2011), Wired article by Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) The case for anonymity online (2010) TED Talk by Christopher “moot” Poole (@moot) We, our digital selves, and us – YouTube video (2012) by Alan Levine (@cogdog) Social Media Literacies syllabus (2012) by Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) NetSmart (2012) by Howard Rheingold @hrheingold) Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2013) Eds. Helen Beetham & Rhona Sharpe Learning Identities in a Digital Age: Rethinking Creativity, Education and Technology (2013) by Avril Loveless & Ben Williamson Digital Identity resources
- 44. How much of your digital identity do you share with your students? How does using social & participatory media change power relations between students and teachers/lecturers, if at all? What are the biggest challenges in using social media in formal education, for students, for educators, for institutions?
Editor's Notes
- DI = online personaThis photos captures some of the ambivalence that many of us feel about our digital identities. Many of us are open, networked educatorsso it might not be easy to remember what it was like when you first ventured into open social spaces online. What was it like engaging with authors of work you had studied? What was it like when they responded to you? How confident did you feel? It’s a process! And THIS is the process that I think is so useful for us to invite our students to engage in, to mentor and model and lead.... Many students already have a confident social digital identity, but developing an identitiy as a learner, a writer, a scholar, a citizen…. these are the essential tasks of us as educators. In the classroom and online, together.
- Unfortunately, I’m not *quite* a local ;)I was born & raised in the Bronx, though I now live in beautiful Kinvara with my family. I’m absolutely delighted to be claimed as a local though…. THANKS!I work at NUIG…
- Not connected/limited by geography, space, time... but connected by our own ideas, passion, commitment via social media.
- Elements of our DI include information that we create ourselves -- as well as information about us which is posted by others.
- Who are you? And how to you construct YOU online?
- OFFLINE = organic, physical, laws of physicsONLINE = technological, digital, laws of codingDifferent experiences of time/space, visibility & privacy
- OFFLINE = organic, physical, laws of physicsONLINE = technological, digital, laws of codingDifferent experiences of time/space, visibility & privacy
- This is not a MOOC.This is not an open programme.This is a typical BSc programme, UG, mostly school leavers
- Knowledge NOT= CurriculumKnowledge = “a living landscape of communities of practice that contribute in various ways” to our learning and to our identitiesSo… HOW do we do this?!
- Huge literature review... (social awareness)Social engagement – enable learners to challenge, change & shape their worlds.Each person needs to find their own digital voice & Personal Digital EnvironmentEach person needs to navigate across digital landscapes
- Google+ was useful for more in-depth reflections, e.g....
- And... a reflection on Khan Academy.
- We agreed to use Twitter as a tool throughout the course… have used G+ in the past, but there were some issues with that.Use a class Twitter account and hashtag. Invokes digital identity immediately!Must discuss and explore first... privacy, identity in online spaces, etc. Who am I on Google? Who am I here? In this class? Who is the audience?
- Privacy is a HUGE issue for students. When I introduce DI… groan… we were beat over the head with protect / be careful / privacy!In some senses effective, in others, students have shut down.
- It’s not the audience! It’s your context within the audience. American internet entrepreneur from NYC, noted for founding the websites 4chan and Canvas. He originally started 4chan anonymously, under the pseudonym moot.
- If there is a way for people to influence or even control the power structures, cognitive effects, social impacts of digital media and networked publics it is through know-how. how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and mindfully. What we know matters, and how we know matters. 5 essential literacies for a world of mobile, social, and always-on media: attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network know-how. The effects of these literacies can both empower the individuals who master them and improve the quality of the digital culture commons.
- PERFORMATIVE – constituted through practicesQUANTIFIED – clicks, follows, @s, likes, Klout, etc…. Like it or not!PARTICIPATORY – merging of production and consumptionASYNCHRONOUS – beautiful thing of creating your own moment, your own space to respond to othersENMESHED – atoms and bits, Nathan JurgensonNEOLIBERAL – ME, Inc. to what extent are we a BRAND?
- Final quote from KF and NS...