Multiliteracies Evo session

“Students are expected to speak differently in school than they do at home,” she said. “What happens with teenagers in particular, but also young children, is that lots of times they grow up with a language at home that is very different than what they’re expected to use in school. Code-switching is teaching them how to navigate from how they talk at home to how they are expected to speak and write in school.”

“Students who text are actually using sophisticated speech patterns,” she said, “so if we can understand what those are, we can illustrate how they’re different than the patterns that are meant to be used in school.”

“It’s huge for adolescents, because what do teenagers want? They want to be part of a community of peers, but they also want their independence,” she said. “Digitalk allows for both. They can be part of a communications community, but they can manipulate the language in unique ways,” she said.

“Lots of times, English is taught in a very linear method: ‘First, we’re going to brainstorm. Then we’re going to draft. Then we’re going to revise. Then we’re going to publish,’” she said. “What we found was that students’ processes were extremely non-linear, and that they were actually mimicking the affordances that technology allows them,” she said. “Technology is very non-linear and interconnected. That’s why they call the Internet a web. So students move seamlessly back and forth between word processing programs and the Internet.”

This is important for educators, she said, because there is a disconnect when teachers ask students who are accustomed to working this way to prove what they know with nothing more than a pencil and paper. “Technology for writing and composition is a whole new ballgame. Teachers have to figure it out pretty quickly, because the students that we’re teaching are coming from a different place than we are,” she said.

Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: “big data”.

Epistemologically speaking, information is made up of a collection of data and knowledge is made up of different strands of information. But this special report uses “data” and “information” interchangeably because, as it will argue, the two are increasingly difficult to tell apart.

business of information management

Chief information officers (CIOs)

statistician and storyteller/artist

many reasons for the information explosion

technology

digitising lots of information that was previously unavailable

access to far more powerful tools

many more people who interact with information

shift from information scarcity to surfeit has broad effects

“Data exhaust”

in aggregate the data can also be mined

In a world of big data the correlations surface almost by themselves.

The way that information is managed touches all areas of life. At the turn of the 20th century new flows of information through channels such as the telegraph and telephone supported mass production. Today the availability of abundant data enables companies to cater to small niche markets anywhere in the world.

how to use it to build a PLN (personal learning network)

My Top Ten Twitter Turn-Off's

1) No profile, or profile picture

Your profile tells people who you are

If you decide to add a link to your profile, make sure it is not a dead link, an under construction page, an affiliate shop, or a page which launches pop up windows

2) No tweets

3) Hiding your tweets

4) You have lots of spammers following you

10) Being overly-self promotional

"Cliff Notes" version of advice for Twitter newbies

7) You are mainly using Twitter to sell or promote something

8) You don't tweet any links

Check out some blogs and online newspapers for topical or interesting stories, and use a url shortener such as bit.ly, (http://bit.ly/)

Searching for twitter hashtags (#)

Some examples

9) You don't interact with other users, or re-tweet other people's posts

Twitter is a social media tool

collaboration, discussion, and sharing

6) You mainly tweet stuff about yourself

the 80/20 ratio (i.e. 80% of your tweets should be about something other than promoting yourself or your blog

Karenne Sylvester wrote a great article a while back about how a you can tell a lot about people from what they tweet and how they conduct themselves on Twitter.

part of your Digital Footprint

David Carr, writing in the New York Times has written an excellent article describing the growing impact of Twitter and explaining why it is set to become part of the infrastructure of the Internet.

If you’re interested in what’s new in your field, then Twitter is a great place to start.

When it comes to finding a tool to get a job done Twitter is without equal – Prezi, Animoto, Wallwisher, Glogster Edu, Dropbox – I got the tip about all of them first on Twitter

If you’re looking to integrate the Internet into your teaching, then your first port of call on Twitter is #edtech.

real-time search of posts about educational technology

The hashtag (#) is used by Twitter as a filter and will take you directly to current posts about that topic

the jewel in Twitter’s crown for educators is #edchat.

filtering and organization is performed automatically

Articles you saved about the latest gadgets would end up in one section, for example, and those about politics would end up in another

Google, a major source of information overload, can also help manage it,

These strategies present challenges for accurately tagging data and archiving it, the presenters warned.

still a small percentage of folks out there looking for some amusement because they’re bored and they want to connect with randomness

a space where teens and young adults and the rest of us can actually interact with randomness again

randomness of the worl

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