These are the slides for the keynote I shared at the LinkedIn User Experience Design All Hands meeting on July 11, 2014. The "story" here is my own life, looking at how my risk-taking and use of social media have empowered me to find an authentic life. Is this a lesson to learn from as we ponder the relevance gap between formal and information learning in the U.S. today? As social becomes more integral to the workplace, can/should educators embrace social technologies to foster more authentic living in their students' lives?
Hybridoma Technology ( Production , Purification , and Application )
The Fractal Life: Harnessing Social for Authentic, Agile Living
1.
2. frac·tal
/ˈfraktəl/
noun
!
1. a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same
statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling
structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) in which
similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in
describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal
growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation.
Fractal
4. Fractals are based on mathematical sets.
Slide by Michelle Pacansky-BrockImage by Elaine Normandy CC-BY-NC-SA
5. Image by Fernando Matias CC-BY-NC-NDImage by Norman CC-BY
…also a natural phenomenon.
Slide by Michelle Pacansky-BrockImage by light2shine CC-BY-NC-ND
46. LEARNING OUT LOUD
Changing St*dents’ Mindsets About Voice Comments
How are my teaching changes
affecting student experiences?
47. 0
7.5
15
22.5
30
1 2 3 4 5
Week 4 Survey (after 3 VTs, 1 req’d voice/video commenting).
Sp 14 Fa 13 Sp 13 Fa 12
n=90
How nervous were you when you left your
first voice/video comment?
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very nervous not nervous
48. 0
7.5
15
22.5
30
1 2 3 4 5
Now when you comment in voice/video, how
nervous are you?
Week 4 Survey (after 3 VTs, 1 req’d voice/video commenting).
very nervous not nervous
Sp 14 Fa 13 Sp 13 Fa 12
n=90
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49. n=49 Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
Learning Out Loud Student Survey % Strongly Agreed/Agreed
If you had completed an online class before this
one, was this the first time you have been required
to participate in voice?
84%
Communicating with online voice/video is an
important 21st century skill. 85%
I noticed an improvement in my ability to speak
more clearly in the voice/video comments. 73%
The voice activities made me feel like I was part
of a group. 92%
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50. photo by Chris Mattia All Rights Reserved
Finding happiness means
connecting with like-minded people.
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And organizations that
value your ideas.
52. The Center.
Social Learning for Higher Ed
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v
Center graphic by
Jim Bumgardner
CC-BY-NC-SA
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53. Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Social professional development
is experiential learning for educators.
54. photo by Kodomut CC-BY Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
How can we learn to value
vulnerability as essential to life?
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Vulnerability
must become
our feedback loop.
56. – B R E N E B R O W N
!
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and
feels like courage. Truth and courage
aren't always comfortable, but
they're never weakness.”
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57. – B R E N E B R O W N
!
“Vulnerability is the
birthplace of innovation,
creativity and change.”
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59. “In a world where value
is shifting rapidly
from things to knowledge,
knowledge workers
are the new means of production.
And it follows that
the social network
is the new production line.”
-Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
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