Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communities
25 minutes on the moves in the 'real world' and how they have an impact on learning.
Made at the Tipperary Institute's Education futures event.
May 2008
More on my blog: http://edu.blogs.com
and contact details on my website: http://www.ewanmcintosh.com
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- Slide 1: EWAN MCINTOSH.COM
BLOG CLIENT
EDU.BLOGS.COM TIPPERARY INSTITUTE, 2008
- Slide 2: UNLEASHING
THE TRIBE
EWAN MCINTOSH.COM
BLOG CLIENT
EDU.BLOGS.COM TIPPERARY INSTITUTE, 2008
- Slide 3: Ordinary tools, extraordinary effects
- Slide 4: The technology itself is
not transformative.
It’s school, the pedagogy,
that is transformative
Tanya Byron
- Slide 5: Tools don’t get
socially interesting
until they get
technologically boring
Clay Shirky
- Slide 6: Ordinary tools, extraordinary effects
Change happens when people feel HSBC Student Bank Charges
comfortable using technology in their daily lives
- Slide 7: 90% 15-25 year olds have visited
their socal network in the past month
- Slide 8: 3rd
biggest country in the world: MySpace
- Slide 12: When we call something intuitive
we often mean familiar
Esther Dyson
- Slide 13: PhDs: Dissertation or YouTube?
- Slide 14: Johnny Lee Head Tracking with a Wii
- Slide 15: Johnny Lee Head Tracking with a Wii
- Slide 16: Johnny Lee Head Tracking with a Wii
- Slide 17: Johnny Lee Head Tracking with a Wii
- Slide 18: Helping the barely motivated become activists
- Slide 19: 113m
blogs tracked by Technorati.com
- Slide 20: 2 /sec
new blogs every second
- Slide 21: 17.5
new blog posts every second
- Slide 22: Helping the barely motivated become activists
We can do things for strangers at The Bebo Boomers
low enough cost to Making the remarkable easy
make that behaviour attractive. (Flickr, Google Earth, Flickrfly)
- Slide 23: The Bebo Boomers
- Slide 24: The Bebo Boomers
- Slide 26: How many ‘friends’ do you really have?
The Roman Legion
Goretex
Dunbar’s Law
- Slide 27: My 481
bestest
friends
- Slide 28: Persistence
- everything (-one): Google, Facebook
- Slide 29: Persistence
- everything (-one): Google, Facebook
Searchability
- ‘everything is miscellaneous’: Flickr
- Slide 30: Persistence
- everything (-one): Google, Facebook
Searchability
- ‘everything is miscellaneous’: Flickr
Replicability
- we encourage copy and paste: ‘Embed’ codes
and Bluetooth
- technically easy: JumpCut
- legally allowed: CC
- Slide 31: Persistence
- everything (-one): Google, Facebook
Searchability
- ‘everything is miscellaneous’: Flickr
Replicability
- we encourage copy and paste: ‘Embed’ codes
and Bluetooth
- technically easy: JumpCut
- legally allowed: CC
Invisible audiences
- friends and contacts
- “the former audience”
danah boyd
- Slide 32: Mobility, shared awareness
- Slide 35: Mobile: 2.5 billion mobile phone users (versus 1.1 b internet users) | 59% in developing countries |
500m new mobile phone users | 25% in China and India |
43% of South Koreans access mobile broadband internet every month | 436,000 discarded in USA every day
- Slide 36: “Shared awareness”
You don’t have to ‘part of’ a group Flashmobs
to be part of something bigger. Dodgeball
Twitter communities
- Slide 38: “Shared awareness”
It’s not about sheer scale Dodgeball & Twitter communities
Leipzig, The Berlin Wall, Ice-cream
Columbia, Vista
- Slide 39: Participation
culture
- Slide 40: Participation
culture
- Slide 41: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
- Slide 42: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
Group Spaces
Bebo, Facebook, Tagged, etc
- Slide 43: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
Group Spaces
Bebo, Facebook, Tagged, etc
Publishing Spaces
Livejournal, Blogger, Flickr, Photobucket, etc
- Slide 44: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
Group Spaces
Bebo, Facebook, Tagged, etc
Publishing Spaces
Livejournal, Blogger, Flickr, Photobucket, etc
Performing Spaces
Second Life, World of Warcraft, Home, etc
- Slide 45: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
Group Spaces
Bebo, Facebook, Tagged, etc
Publishing Spaces
Livejournal, Blogger, Flickr, Photobucket, etc
Performing Spaces
Second Life, World of Warcraft, Home, etc
Participation Spaces
Marches, Meetings, Markets, Events etc
- Slide 46: Secret Spaces
Mobile, SMS, IM
Group Spaces
Bebo, Facebook, Tagged, etc
Publishing Spaces
Livejournal, Blogger, Flickr, Photobucket, etc
Performing Spaces
Second Life, World of Warcraft, Home, etc
Participation Spaces
Marches, Meetings, Markets, Events etc
Watching Spaces
Television, Gigs, Theatre, etc
- Slide 47: We’re all below average
- Slide 48: We’re all “below average” users
Power-Law Distribution Quick tour of Flickr
- Slide 49: Power Law Distribution
- Slide 50: Power Law Distribution
- Slide 51: #1 Contributor: 238 photos
Power Law Distribution
- Slide 52: #1 Contributor: 238 photos
#2 Contributor: 158 photos
Power Law Distribution
- Slide 53: #1 Contributor: 238 photos
#2 Contributor: 158 photos
Average: 26
Power Law Distribution
- Slide 54: #1 Contributor: 238 photos
#2 Contributor: 158 photos
Average: 26
Median: 11
Power Law Distribution
- Slide 55: #1 Contributor: 238 photos
#2 Contributor: 158 photos
Average: 26
Median: 11
Mode: 1
Power Law Distribution
- Slide 56: What (simple) tools help you How can you create a What changes would you
be remarkable? “shared awareness”? make to get small passionate
groups creating themselves?
- Slide 57: What (simple) tools help you How can you create a What changes would you
be remarkable? “shared awareness”? make to get small passionate
groups creating themselves?
- Slide 58: What (simple) tools help you How can you create a What changes would you
be remarkable? “shared awareness”? make to get small passionate
groups creating themselves?
- Slide 59: What (simple) tools help you How can you create a What changes would you
be remarkable? “shared awareness”? make to get small passionate
groups creating themselves?