“You have to move away from thinking about content to thinking about communities. Communities are built around content and the sharing that the licensing allows enables these communities to come together.”
Creative Commons
Mobile devices enable ubiquitous access to learning communities. You can create on a device – why not share on one as well. As educators, we need to encourage the sharing of ideas and work. We use social media platforms to post our insights in education. Sometimes our posts may lead to a dialogue and may even also provide a learning opportunity. Another educator’s post may inspire a change in our pedagogy.
This dialogue should occur between students and other learning communities as well. We should encourage students to share ideas, not hide or view them as educational material to be discarded after they get the grade. Sharing will foster growth and confidence in students. The internet gave us this power to create and share in communities to all areas of the globe. We should use this sharing community to our advantage. Sharing ideas in an open unregulated space may yield to unconstrucitve criticism or nonconcensual usage of someones work – but if you use the right platform and teach digital citizenship, the positives outweighs the negatives.
Here are some sharing communities (mobile friendly design):
Wattpad – a social story platform
Adobe Education Exchange – “free learning platform and community, with workshops, classes, and resources, all designed by educators for educators, to ignite creativity in the classroom.”
Creative Commons – Creative Commons “is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges.”
Behance – “is the world’s largest creative network for showcasing and discovering creative work.”
Hello Emily. I love sharing resources. Students share a lot on social media but rarely educational material. I hope they see the value of it soon.
Hi Andrea,
These are great resources, and I also agree with you in that sharing is such an integral part of mobile learning. More and more people are becoming more comfortable at sharing their creations, especially the new generation of kids. They are growing up in an environment where they can create content very easily and sharing will be like second nature to them. I personally use creative commons image a lot when I Google for pictures. It’s a great website. Thank you for sharing this!