6.+Networked+Learning

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 * [[image:learningisoutthere/pebble circle.jpg width="175" height="128"]] || Networked Learning

Networked learning includes any collaborative and interactive learning experience using digital means to connect and interact through networks. A learning theory that develops networked learning is connectivism. Part of the learning theory is based on the concept that the learning is out there, we, as learners, need to find it through interactions and developing networks.

__Online Communities: __ A pan-Canadian indigenous online community has recently been created to encourage indigenous educators to network and connect online. It's called [|Indspire.ca] media type="custom" key="23561408"

[|#CdnEdchat] is also a recently formed twitter chat. A twitter chat is a chat in twitter connected through a common hashtag. There are facilitators that use the hashtag in tweets to ask questions using tweets in twitter at a set time. People who are interested in that topic, meet at a set time each week to answer the questions through twitter and interact with each other around a common topic. On June 24, 2013, the #CdnEdchat focus was on FNMI perspectives in education. This is a short video of what a twitter chat looks like: media type="custom" key="23561428"

This is a [|storify] I created which is a collection of social media and digital artifacts to create a story about the #Cdnedchat FNMI twitter chat. []

__Activism Through Networks __ Students and educators are able to use technology to promote activism and promote youth indigenous voice using social media and networking.

Some examples of activism include: Craig Watkins & Juliet Schor - [|Connected Learning As Pathway to Equity & Opportunity]

[|UNDROPPABLE]- a social media campaign focused on raising awareness about the high school dropout rate in American High Schools.

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__Online Courses: __ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Part of networked learning are MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses. There are currently [|cMOOCs and xMOOCs]being offered by a wide variety of institutions worldwide.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Recently, an xMOOC was offered by the University of Toronto called, "Aboriginal Worldviews". <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">media type="custom" key="23543274" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">This is the [|link]to the free Cousera course on Aboriginal Worldviews:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">The <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; line-height: 1.5;">#OLTAK is an example of a cMOOC offered by Dr. Lee Graham and the EDET 674 Virtual Teaching and Learning/MOOC Through the University of Alaska Southeast.

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