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Vance StevensPlenary address at the 6th International -42nd Annual Conference held at VIT, Vellore, India,
16 to 18 June, 2011
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Basic Concept - Teaching
• Teachers are learners They are one and the same.
• A teacher is a master learner who knows more about learning than his or her students.
• A teacher – models and – demonstrates
how students can learn effectively.
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Basic Concept - Learning
• Learning requires change. One cannot enter a quest for learning and emerge unchanged.
• In that case, nothing would have been learned.
• A learner (or as a learner, a teacher …)– Reflects – And practices
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
If a teacher is a master learner …
• Then it stands to reason that
as a learner,
the teacher must continually be changing.
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Let’s stop here and ask
• What is your view of your profession? • What is your colleagues’ view?• Is it that you pass on a set of skills acquired at
one time?– the same set of skills? – year after year?
Let’s hope it’s not! Things change!
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Frameworks for coping with Change
• Alan Toffler, Future Shock• Etiene Wenger, Communities of Practice• George Siemens: Connectivism
http://www.connectivism.ca/ • Cross, Informal Learning
directed at knowledge workers
Knowledge Work
• A good segment of India’s economy is devoted to knowledge work.
• Such work assumes a constantly shifting playing field where change is driven by innovation
• and the education system is charged with training students to work in jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Challenge #1
To prepare students for careers as knowledge workers in jobs not invented yet, teachers must• Transition from one mindset to another on ten fronts
simultaneously, each involving a substantial break with past thinking
• Grasp how a baker’s dozen of unfamiliar tools and concepts can further learning in the emerging paradigms
Cannot be done in one step… only in many SMALL steps
SMALL = Social Media Assisted Language Learning
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
How can teachers rise to this challenge?
• Only by constantly learning.• How can they constantly learn? By
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com• Teacher development means constantly re-
learning, even re-inventing, how to learn
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Future of Learning in a Networked World
• We no longer learn in the way we did last century.
• We are much more connected now. • Those who wish to drive innovation, – or teach students to be in a position to drive
innovation, – must themselves be innovative in the way they
learn.
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Ten Paradigm Shifts
1. Pedagogy - shift from didactic models of “teaching” to constructivist ones of learning
2. Networking –connectivism: learning as a social vs. isolated activity
3. Literacy –from reliance on print to functioning in multiliteracies
4. Heuristics – from client-server to peer-to-peer
5. Formality – from hierarchical power centricity to informal learning and F.U.N.
6. Transfer - applying social networking skills and concepts from personal life to professional
7. Directionality – from push to pull dissemination of knowledge
8. Ownership – proprietary vs. open source, OER
9. Sharing – from guarded copyright to creative commons, and fair use
10. Classification – taxonomic to folksonomic systems
More information http://tinyurl.com/vance2010calico
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
A few Digital Literacies
• Howard Rheingold: Network awarenesshttp://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/AttentionandOther21stCenturySo/213922
• Multiliteracies: http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com
• Dave Cormier: MOOCshttp://davecormier.com/edblog/wp-content/uploads/MOOC_Final.pdf
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Cormier’s Success in MOOC
• Orient• Declare• Network• Cluster• Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8avYQ5ZqM0&feature=player_embedded
At http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/33070273/Week2EVO2011
Can this work in huge real world f2f classes?
Like in India?
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Let’s image …
• All parties have gone some way toward making those paradigm shifts
• Teachers AND learners are sufficiently multi-literate to hold discourse on the goals and affordances inherent in that shift, because– These technologies only become transformative when their
use becomes second-nature to the point where we and those around us use them in our normal workflow.
• From http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/transforming-learning-with-creative.html
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Personal Learning Network
Bringing together elements of a PLN• Webheads http://webheads.info • Twitter http://twitter.com/vances • Facebook• Learning2gether
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
How to connect
• Elluminate via Learning Timeshttp://tinyurl.com/y3eh
• WiZiQ http://wiziq.com • BigMarker http://bigmarker.com • Open University Flash Meeting• Skype http://skype.com • TappedIn http://tappedin.org
every Sunday noon GMT (4 pm in UAE)
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Baker’s dozen of skills, concepts, tools, and genres for the 21st Century
1. Web 2.0 and social networking2. RSS and feed readers3. Podcasts
– Harvesting them, through RSS– Also producing them
4. Blogging– Multiliteracy skills – Following via RSS
5. Microblogging – Twitter– Edmodo, Yammer, etc.
6. Push/pull technologies 7. Aggregation via folksonomic
classification (tags)
8. Digital storytelling and applications of multimedia to new literacies
9. PLNs (personal learning networks)– Communities of practice– Connectivism
10. Informal / just-in-time learning11. Synchronous communications:
instant messaging, online presentation venues incorporating interactive whiteboard, voice, and video
12. Asynchronous collaborations tools: blogs, wikis, Voicethread, Slideshare, Google docs and similar collaboration toolsSee Stevens, 2010 at Google Doc
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Change Agency• Cofino, K. (2008). Making the shift happen. Always learning. Retrieved
on March 28, 2011 fromhttp://kimcofino.com/blog/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen/
• Curtis, P. (2009). Building A Web 2.0 culture. Multimedia presentation at the K12 Online Conference 2009. Retrieved on March 28, 2011 from http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=457 .
• Carozza, B. (2009). Embracing Web 2.0 for the Administrator. Multimedia presentation at the K12 Online Conference 2009. Retrieved on March 28, 2011 from http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=455.
• Freedman, T. (2006). Overcoming obstacles: Selling Web 2.0 to senior management. Paper delivered at the K12 Online Conference 2006. Retrieved on March 28, 2011 from http://k12online.wm.edu/overcomingobstacles.pdf.
Challenge #2 Elucidating the Ineffable
• It's because computers are anything but isolating, because they bring people together in innumerable modalities, that they are transformative in learning. Yet …
this is not widely accepted as fact due to the ineffable nature of the process.
Technogogy has to be experienced to be understood, and many simply do not grant themselves the opportunity to experience it; therefore they never achieve that aha! moment.
• From http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/transforming-learning-with-creative.html
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Paradigm shift: Transfer
• From networking with friends via Facebook• To collaboration with colleagues in
Google Docs and Delicious• Examples with language focus– Writingmatrix http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com – Webheads http://webheads.info
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Use it with Students
Photo credit, Barbara Dieu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bee/5737375/(shared here per creative commons: attribution, noncommercial, share-alike)
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Organizing learners to use Web 2.0
• Tapping into PLN’s– Microblogging
(Twitter)– Ning alternative
Grouply, Grou.ps etc.– Listservs– Facebook
• Cloud collaboration in – Google Docs– Wikis– Etherpad clones– Delicious and Diigo
Get them familiar with project organization and collaboration online:
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Design materials to train teachers while teaching students
Simple, practical, hands on exercises in:
• Cloud collaboration in Google Docs (i.e. wiki)• Reading blogs (awareness –> comment –> create content)• Following blogs via RSS
– Via blocks added to LMS / CMS & other aggregators– At a more advanced stage, in Google Reader
• Tagging in Delicious (and/or Diigo)– Organizing bookmarks in the cloud– Using Delicious to communicate through tags– Expanding Internet searches
through suggested alternate key wordsMore information about the three-step progression and full text and slides at http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/PLN
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
F.U.N. with tags and backchannels
Play tag games with:
• Spezify and Addictomatic
• Flickr and TagGalaxy• Writingmatrix
Backchannel tools
• Lists in Twitter• Edmodo• Wallwisher• Voicethread
http://braz2010vance.pbworks.com/TagGames
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Class-roots professional development
Students and staff must
• Recognize potentials of social media for learning
• Model best practices for one another
• Refine skills by training one another
Training
• Not just through reading about IT and attending lectures or workshops
• Necessary to “do” it. • This requires PLN of
peers who will interact and scaffold one another
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Making the shift happen
Teachers as“master” lifelong learners must:
• Move toward greater socialization in their learning environments
• Become aware of and incorporate 21st Century skills and paradigm shifts
• Seek out, and become, models of best practices
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
In Conclusion
• I would like to end by learning from you. • I am in India, a land associated with – transcendental meditation – change and renewal through humility and
introspection.• As Clay Shirky points out in his new book, – technology is the enabler, but – what you’ve always wanted to teach is the driver
Vance Stevens, VIT / ELTAI Conference June, 2011, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Bu it’s not necessarily about tech
• The canvas is large and restricting it to technology would indeed be narrowing the perspective. Let's talk about what is changing, why and how. The direction of the change in the current globalised IT enabled economy - towards hands-on minds-on activities. I guess the change is from a teacher being the dispenser of knowledge to facilitator of discovery learning. Going beyond mere remembering, understanding, applying to analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Let's talk about the implications for teaching, text, test etc. – Fr. Peter
Thanks to all who joined in the live presentation
All Vance’s slides are athttp://slideshare.net/vances This session was recorded:
(URL to be provided by WiZiQ)