Headshift Breakfast Workshop May08

Slide 1: Reframing learning and professional development Communicate Collaborate Anne Bartlett-Bragg Contribute 8 May 2008

Slide 2: Your learning landscape… Why are you here?  to learn  to meet people  to network  to talk  to generate new ideas  for the view?!

Slide 3: What’s happening in your learning landscape…?

Slide 4: Learning: Then and Now? from this to this From “Minds on Fire” by John Seely Brown & Richard P. Adler Educause February, 2008

Slide 5: Creating learning landscapes… What if….  You could create dialogues - learning conversations that provoke questions…  Collaborate with and be the conduit for learning  What if learning became discretely embedded into our everyday activities?…..

Slide 6: From these learning spaces…

Slide 7: To personalised learning spaces…

Slide 8: To social sharing spaces

Slide 9: Personalised work / learning spaces Knowledge Information Learning Performance Social management management management management networking Search Action Plans Reflections Accountability Share Share Reports Action Plans Action Plans Contribute Contribute Participate Artefacts Reports Reports Participate Collect evidence Artefacts Artefacts Network Categorise Collect evidence Collect evidence Manage Share Share Share Contribute Contribute Contribute Participate Participate Participate Anne Bartlett-Bragg  November 2007

Slide 10: What is social software ?  Do you have a blog?  Do you use Flickr?  Do you use chat/IM?  Do you use a wiki?  Can you make a podcast?  Can you live without your aggregator?  Do you have an avatar - or 2?  Can you explain RSS - in plain English?  Can you Facebook me?  Can you use Delicious?  Just give me the SLURL and I’ll see you there!  Is Twitter a type of bird call?

Slide 11: Creating an architecture of participation

Slide 12: Creating an architecture of participation  Apply principles of social psychology theories  Design action-oriented processes  Transparency of participation  Shared experiences  Shared resources The information is not important in itself - it is the relationship to other people with shared interests!

Slide 13: What are the implications? Content Technology Issues

Slide 14: Inhibitors to implementation 1. Organisational inhibitors: ● Organisational technology infrastructure ● Organisational culture 2. Individual inhibitors: ● Digital literacy – computer & information ● Learners – identity, dependency, time management 3. Pedagogical inhibitors: ● Modes of teaching

Slide 15: A final word from your learners …