Presentation for the University of Alberta Tech Fair, March 25th, 2011 by Alec Couros and Dean Shareski. Presentation focuses on the way social media and technology are changing the role and function of teachers

1. Charlie Bit My Finger
And Why It Really, Really Matters
Alec Couros University of Alberta
and Technology Fair
Dean Shareski March 25, 2010

3. http://bit.ly/techfair

6. Alec Couros Dean Shareski
@courosa @shareski
couros@gmail.com
shareski@gmail.com
couros.ca shareski.ca

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/plugusin/5048312116

9. “The only problem with Wikipedia is that it
only works in practice. In theory it would
never work” Miikos Ryokas

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/datruss/5313586824

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/3105191883

12. http://www.futureofed.org/
“If you think our future will require better schools, you're
wrong. The future of education calls for entirely new
kinds of learning environments.
If you think we will need better teachers, you're wrong.
Tomorrow’s learners
will need guides who take on
fundamentally different roles.”

13. http://www.futureofed.org/

14. The World as Your Refrigerator
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/

15. The World as Your Refrigerator
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/
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16. The World as Your Refrigerator
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/
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17. Do I have to keep this?

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4766403166

19. Athletic Stages

20. Artistic Stages

21. Academic stages?

24. How did you contribute
to the learning of others?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/2447368181/
What did you learn from others?

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ransomtech/5417391390

26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/samwebster/3795409752/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656
What’s so good about face to face?

27. Homework at School

28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjmoore/3336220827/
What’s so good about face to face?

29. Learning Anytime, Anywhere ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhall426/2367776666/sizes/z/in/photostream/

31. With Anyone (eg. 1)

32. With Anyone (eg. 2)

33. With Anyone (eg. 3)

34. With Anyone (eg. 4)

35. With Anyone (eg. 5)

37. PLN/PLE
Personal Learning Network

38. New Roles

39. Ze Frank

40. Ze Frank

41. Private vs.Public

42. You are what you share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/springm/1443514113/

43. http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwi
tches/3500044331

44. What’s a reflective practitioner?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8127253@N05/3497027660/

45. My blog reminds me that I'm boneheaded and tin-eared.
My blog represents me not as an edited professional
voice, but as a human being struggling to
express ideas, thoughts, reactions, dreams, and
general b.s. via a means that
uncompromisingly allows for the
immediate feedback of strangers and
fellow wanderers.
Shelley Blake-Pollock
@teachpaperless

46. blogging was the cheapest, most risk-
But
free investment I could have made of
my personal time into my job. You start by writing
down things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And then
you start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart,
Periods of stagnancy
and dialoging over them with strangers.
in your blogging start to correspond to
periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You
start to muse on your job when you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort
That transformation has been
of thing.
nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot
blog.
Dan Meyer
@ddmeyer

56. Full Time Crap Detectors

61. Media Competency

62. The greatest digital divide is
between those who can read
and write with media, and
those who can't.
Elizabeth Daly
cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/ 51

63. Doing It Well

64. Doing It Well

65. Not So Well
Cisco just offered me
a job! Now I have to weigh
the utility of a fatty
paycheck against the daily
commute to San Jose and
hating the work

66. Not So Well

67. Networks of Trust

68. Beautiful Collaboration

69. Who Benefits?

70. Social Glue

71. Social Glue

72. Are you a text snob?

73. The Power of the Pictograph

77. 65

80. Ten years ago, not one student in a
hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have
produced videos like this. It's a whole new
skill, a vital and important skill, and one
utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of
creating but also of comprehending video
communication today.
Stephen Downes
@downes

81. Consumption Creation
Reading Writing
Listening Speaking
Viewing Representing

82. Consumption Creation
Reading Writing
Listening Speaking
Viewing Representing

83. Consumption Creation
Reading Writing
Listening Speaking
Viewing Representing

84. “With a digital projector waiting back in my
classroom, I can't help looking for
interesting, relevant images to put in front of
my class. A digital projector shrinks the time-
gap between my learning moment and
theirs. A digital projector has effectively buried
the difference between What Fascinates
Me and What I Teach.” Dan Meyer
Dan Meyer
@ddmeyer

85. “...the professional language of the future”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/movies/06vann.html
“The greatest digital divide is between
those who can read and write with media,
and those who can't” http://www.flickr.com/photos/muha/1016691310/

86. Big Finish

87. http://www.flickr.com/photos/grade6kms/5101533308

88. Thanks