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Living and Learning in a Global CommunityInnovative Schools Virtual University
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://[email protected]
Website and blog21st Century Collaborativehttp://21stcenturycollaborative.com@snbeach on Twitter
Learner First—Educator/Student SecondIt is a shift and requires us to rethink who we are as an educator, student, or professional. It requires us to redefine ourselves.
Emerson and Thoreau reunited would ask-“What has become clearer to you since we last met?”Share with someone near you.. What have you learned recently?
6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue Digital
Tethered Mobile
Closed Open
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education
Do it Yourself PDA revolution in technology has transformed the way we can find each other, interact, and collaborate to create knowledge as connected learners.
What are connected learners? Learners who collaborate online; learners who use social media to connect with others around the globe; learners who engage in conversations in safe online spaces; learners who bring what they learn online back to their classrooms, schools, and districts.
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
What does it mean to be a connected learner with a well developed network?
What are the advantages or drawbacks?
How is it a game changer?
Dedication to the ongoing development of expertise
Shares and contributes
Engages in strength-based approachesand appreciative inquiry
Demonstrates mindfulness
Willingness to leaving one's comfort zone to experiment with new strategies and taking on new responsibilities
Dispositions and ValuesCommitment to understanding asking good questions
Explores ideas and concepts, rethinking, revising, and continuously repacks and unpacks, resisting urges to finish prematurely
Co-learner, Co-leader, Co-creator
Self directed, open minded
Commits to deep reflection
Transparent in thinking
Values and engages in a culture of collegiality
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATORProfessional development needs to change. We know this.
A revolution in technology has transformed the way we can find each other, interact, and collaborate to create knowledge as connected learners.
Define Community
Define Networks
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)
Community......has been defined as a group of interacting
people living in a common location.
http://www.psfk.com
In the digital age, common location is not as important as
common interest.
What are the characteristics of distributed learning
communities?
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A Definition of NetworksFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Networks are created through publishing and sharing ideas and connecting with others who share passions around those ideas who learn from each other. Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another's learning.
Connectivism (theory of learning in networks) is the use of a network with nodes and connections as a central metaphor for learning. In this metaphor, a node is anything that can be connected to another node: information, data, feelings, images. Learning is the process of creating connections and developing a network.
In connectivism, learning involves
creating connections and developing a
network. It is a theory for the digital age
drawing upon chaos, emergent properties,
and self organised learning.
“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st Century.”
- Howard Rheingold
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu
If ... information is recognized as useful to the community ... it can be counted as knowledge. The community, then, has the power to create knowledge within a given context and leave that knowledge as a new node connected to the rest of the network’.
– Dave Cormier (2008)
Open Networks
Practitioners’ knowledge = content & context
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• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
1. Local community: Purposeful, face-to-face connections among members of a committed group—a professional learning community (PLC)
2. Global network: Individually chosen, online connections with a diverse collection of people and resources from around the world—a personal learning network (PLN)
3. Bounded community: A committed, collective, and often global group of individuals who have overlapping interests and recognize a need for connections that go deeper than the personal learning network or the professional learning community can provide—a community of practice or inquiry (CoP)
The driving engine of the collaborative culture of a PLC is the team. They work together in an ongoing effort to discover best practices and to expand their professional expertise.
PLCs are our best hope for reculturing schools. We want to focus on shifting from a culture of teacher isolation to a culture of deep and meaningful collaboration.
Professional Learning Communities
FOCUS: Local , F2F, Job-embedded- in Real Time
Personal Learning Networks
FOCUS: Individual, Connecting to Learning Objects, Resources and People – Social Network Driven
responsiveresponsive
personalized
investing in collaborations
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.
FOCUS: Situated, Synchronous, Asynchronous- Online and Walled Garden
Communities of Practice
Virtual CommunityA virtual space supported by computer-based information technology, centered upon communication and interaction of participants to generate member-driven content, resulting in relationships being built up. (Lee & Vogel, 2003)
Dynamics of Different Network TypesCommunity of Practice
Project Teams Informal networks
Purpose Learning SharingCreating Knowledge
Accomplish specific task
Communication flows
Boundary Knowledge domain
Assigned projector task
Networking, resource building and establishing relationships
Connections Common application or discovery- innovation
Commitment to goal
Interpersonal acquaintances
Membership Semi - permanent Constant for a fixed period
Links made based on needs of the individual
Time scale As long as it adds value to the its members
Fixed ends when project deliverables have been accomplished
No pre-engineered end
CelebrationCelebration
Connection
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Communication
Collaboration
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User Generated Co-
created Content
Celebration
Connection
Communication
Collaboration
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Webb/Butterfield/Smith Model
Based on Matt Webb, Stewart Butterfield’s and Gene Smith’s writings
Creative Commons
Ultimately: Freedom to openly access, use, copy, modify and share content
The New Third Place?
“All great societies provide informal meeting places, like the Forum in ancient Rome or a contemporary English pub. But since World War II, America has ceased doing so. The neighborhood tavern hasn't followed the middle class out to the suburbs...” -- Ray Oldenburg
Characteristics of a healthy community
CommunitiesOf Practice
PersonalLearningNetworks
F2F Teams
DIY-PD
Do it Yourself PD as Self Directed Connected Learners
"Rather than belittling or showing disdain for knowledge or expertise, DIY champions the average individual seeking knowledge and expertise for him/herself. Instead of using the services of others who have expertise, a DIY oriented person would seek out the knowledge for him/herself." (Wikipedia, n.d.)
Community is the New Professional Development
Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1999a) describe three ways of knowing and constructing knowledge that align closely with PLP's philosophy and are worth mentioning here.
Knowledge for Practice is often reflected in traditional PD efforts when a trainer shares with teachers information produced by educational researchers. This knowledge presumes a commonly accepted degree of correctness about what is being shared. The learner is typically passive in this kind of "sit and get" experience. This kind of knowledge is difficult for teachers to transfer to classrooms without support and follow through. After a workshop, much of what was useful gets lost in the daily grind, pressures and isolation of teaching.
Knowledge in Practice recognizes the importance of teacher experience and practical knowledge in improving classroom practice. As a teacher tests out new strategies and assimilates them into teaching routines they construct knowledge in practice. They learn by doing. This knowledge is strengthened when teachers reflect and share with one another lessons learned during specific teaching sessions and describe the tacit knowledge embedded in their experiences.
Community is the New Professional Development
Knowledge of Practice believes that systematic inquiry where teachers create knowledge as they focus on raising questions about and systematically studying their own classroom teaching practices collaboratively, allows educators to construct knowledge of practice in ways that move beyond the basics of classroom practice to a more systemic view of learning.
I believe that by attending to the development of knowledge for, in and of practice, we can enhance professional growth that leads to real change.
Cochran-Smith, M., & Lytle, S.L. (1999a). Relationships of knowledge and practice: Teaching learning in communities. Review of Research in Education, 24, 249-305.
Passive, active, and reflective knowledge building in local (PLC), global (CoP) and contextual (PLN) learning spaces.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf
Motivations
• Social connectedness
• Psychological well-being
• Gratification• Collective
Efficacy
The Social Web is built here, from love and esteem
Connected Learning Communities provide the personal learning environment (PLE) to do the nudging
Change is hard
Connected learners are more effective change agents
Let’s just admit it…
You are an agent of change!
Now. Always. And now you have the tools to leverage your ideas.
An effective change agent is someone who isn’t afraid to change course.
Let’s look at some examples…
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker
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