Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

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Learning to Change: Changing to Learn

Define Community

What Is An Online Learning Community?

Much of the learning currently happening on the Internet comes from self-motivated individuals with a common interest and a desire to interact with others who share the same interest (Wenger, 1998).

The focus is on interaction…

Centralized, bureaucratic,risk averse, multi-leveled, limit

access to data, inward focused culture

Empowering, non bureaucratic,risk tolerant, fewer levels,distribute data widely,externally oriented.

Walled Garden

A Definition of Community

Communities are quite simply, collections of individuals who are bound together by natural will and a set of shared ideas and ideals.

“A system in which people can enter into relations that are determined by problems or shared ambitions rather than by rules or structure.” (Heckscher, 1994, p. 24).

The process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. (Wikipedia)

Virtual Learning Communities of RelationshipA community built on relationships promotes special kinds of connections among people. These connections might be based on a shared concern, issue or learning problem, but in each instance, the emphasis is on the relationships built among participants. Issues of commitment, trust and values are inherent in any relationships which emerge in the community. (Teacher Leaders Network)

Virtual Learning Communities of PlaceIndividuals in this type of community enjoy a common habitat or locale. (My Space, Second Life, World of Warcraft)

Virtual Learning Communities of PassionCommunities of passion reinforce people's commitment to other people, to common goals, shared values and shared conceptions of being and doing. This can be as trivial as a shared interest in wine making, or as profound as a shared search for truth.

Virtual Learning Communities of MemoryA virtual learning community of memory is based on a shared past or a common sense of history. (Holocaust Survivors Network)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Pre-service educationStudy groups

Curriculum writingContinuing education

Formal Informal

Individual developmentPeer collaborationPeer coaching or

mentoring

NETWORKING IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

helps us reach for helps us reach for what we need, what we need,

according to our according to our contexts and contexts and

knowledge levels.knowledge levels.

provides us with provides us with opportunities for opportunities for

experiential experiential learning with learning with different tools different tools and platformsand platforms

builds an online builds an online professional and professional and social presencesocial presence

helps us gain confidence and practicehelps us gain confidence and practice and then apply experience and then apply experience

to our teaching and learning. to our teaching and learning.

Looking Closely at Learning Community Design

4L Model (Linking, Lurking, Learning, and Leading) inspired by John Seeley Brown http://learningcircuits.blogspot.com/2006/06/roles-in-cops.html

This model is developed around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community.

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

Personal Learning Networks

Community-- in and out of the classroom

Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

Personal Learning Networks

• Model how to develop PLNs for your students.

• Look at students not just as colearners in the curriculum but as co-learners in the effort to use technology in a constructivist classroom.

• Try new things in front of the kids and talk about what they are doing--model risk taking.

Twitter

Ustream

Skype:Web Conferencing

Conference Calls

Classroom Collaboration

Meetings

Classrooms of the 21st Century are:

Collaborative, student centered, project/problem based, student choice, experiential, democratic, construction of knowledge is a shared , encourage risk taking-- mistakes are allowed and seen as normal on the path.

Students are active participants in own learning– not seen as an object to be acted on.

Can’t Give Away What You Do Not Own

My community work…

ENDAPT• Electronically• Networking to• Develop• Accomplished• Professional• Teachers

• ENabling new teachers to…

• ADAPT to—and to adapt—the complex, ever-changing contexts of education as teacher leaders and in service of student learning.

1-to-1

Group

http://endapt.wm.edu/modules/emissary-admin/info.php?template=home_page.html

Info on demand

Through ENDAPT, we aim to…

1) Improve pre-service preparation2) Improve novice induction3) Improve teacher effectiveness4) Improve teacher retention5) Foster teacher leadership6) Improve K-12 student learning

Overcomes some recognized limitations of site-based mentoring:

• Access to highly experienced, communicative mentors

• Scheduling mentoring sessions

• School politics\

(Abbott, 2003; Schlager, Fusco, Koch, Crawford, & Phillips, 2003)

Why Online Mentoring for Novice Teachers?

Telementoring

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ring

Virtual learning community

Computer-mediated communication

Perspective

“Like Alice in Teacher Wonderland  virtual communities allow my teacher world to grow larger and smaller at the same time!”

Susan middle school teacherVirginia

Friday, June 9, 2006

posted by Matt November 2006

The longer I do this (a whopping 11 weeks now!), I'm realizing that to be an effective teacher, it will take my all. My ALL! I constantly think about school: what I've done, all that still needs to get done, the handful of students that try to make the classroom miserable, the other handful that are the reason I get out of bed (some kids are in both groups)…. I guess my question is: is it always like this?I guess my question is: is it always like this?

I like teaching (I think), but I'm tired of working 12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week for questionable results. Jobs that you can walk away from at the end of the day, and not think about until you return the next seem mighty enticing right now….I am I am honestly not trying to be pessimistic, but why teach?honestly not trying to be pessimistic, but why teach?

Matt

The end.The end. posted by Matt on Jun 1, 2006, 3:05 PM  

Today it ends. When the bell rang at 11:28 am, the students walked out the door for the last time this academic year. Tonight is graduation. Tomorrow is a work-day. Done. And my friends, what a ride it has been. Ask me how it was. My Ask me how it was. My response: I have no clue- I'll let you know in a week or two. response: I have no clue- I'll let you know in a week or two.

Regardless, from a deep place inside, thank you all. It was very reassuring to It was very reassuring to know that you were available to run to when my world was collapsing. Your know that you were available to run to when my world was collapsing. Your input has been internalized and has shaped my approaches this year.input has been internalized and has shaped my approaches this year. As I look forward to reflecting this summer, know that your input and our conversations will be one of my primary sources for material.

Again, my sincerest thanks.

Matt2nd year teacher.2nd year teacher.

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