This document discusses network education and the literacies needed to make sense of and contribute to information abundance. It argues that to network education is to model the literacies needed to operate within networked environments, including critical consumption, connection, privacy, managing power and privilege, conflict, contribution, collaboration, and care. The key literacies highlighted are presented as those that teachers need to learn, foster, and model through learner-driven, participatory, differentiated and experiential pedagogies.

1. Network Education:
learning to be literate
Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart
University of Prince Edward Island
January 2015
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2. ME -------à

3. We cannot talk about education
without talking about literacies

4. Literacy = tools + concepts
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5. 1:1
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6. Networks connect people to
each other

7. (When we let them)

8. Literacy, 400 BCE = Threat to
Knowledge

9. Literacy, 1500 CE = Control of
Knowledge

10. Literacies, 2015 BCE = Management &
Synthesis of Knowledge

11. Knowledge Abundance
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12. Structure of Abundance = Networks

13. To network education
is to model the literacies for
making sense &
contributing knowledge
within information abundance.

14. Text
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15. Broadcast media

16. But not all media & information is
coming from institutions
- or via broadcast - any longer.

17. h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ooohoooh/1350774613/
Networks are not just for consuming,
but connecting.

18. So this is great! We all like
different colours!
We are special snowflakes!

19. …And then there’s schooling.
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20. Three facts:
(Um…schools are systems.)
#1.
#2.
#3.

21. So just throw everybody onto social media?

23. h"ps://roadtrippers.com/blog/the-­‐worlds-­‐worst-­‐playgrounds-­‐are-­‐where-­‐fun-­‐goes-­‐to-­‐die
But schools need to learn & model
good network literacies

24. Not just judge.

25. A networked teacher is always
a learner, too.
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26. Key Literacies to Learn & Foster

27. Literacies of
critical consumption

28. Literacies of connection

29. “The internet is on principle a system that
you reveal yourself to in order to fully
enjoy, which differentiates it from, say, a
music player. It is a TV that watches you.”
- Edward Snowden, in The Washington Post
Literacies of privacy

30. Literacies of power & privilege

31. Literacies of conflict management

32. Literacies of contribution &
collaboration

33. h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/10728008326
Literacies of care

34. Network Pedagogies
• Learner-driven
• Participatory
• Differentiated
• Experiential

35. Thank you.
@bonstewart
bstewart@upei.ca