Nakasendo English Conference Making Connections: Working Together to Improve Teaching Practice

“ Education is not a place for modest ambitions.” Lee Shulman, 2004 p.497 (The Wisdom of Practice)

Teacher Learner Communities and the Wiki Teacher Tim Murphey mits@kanda.kuis.ac.jp Kanda University of International Studies KUIS The Woman Magician

WIKI wikiwiki = fast (Hawaiian) oxymoron

WIKI wikiwiki = fast (Hawaiian) W e I nvigorate K nowledge I ntermentally! Social and Cultural Capital W hat I K now I s

W e I nvigorate K nowledge I ntermentally!

Social and Cultural Capital

W hat I K now I s

Producers + Consumers = PROSUMERS

MacGyver The only tool you will ever need

Social Capital: Networks, Friends

Too homogeneous A Community of Macgyvers?

Diversity

A Community of Wiki Teachers

WIKI TEACHERS Some Characteristics Out of the Box Thinking (MacGyver) Techno/tool learner (Mac-user) Social Intelligence (Goleman-2006) Comfortable with uncertainty (Shulman, 2004) Situational Flexibility (appropriate risk-taker) Build community (see community relationships as the principle tool of learning, teaching, growing co-constructed knowledge)

Some Characteristics

Out of the Box Thinking (MacGyver)

Techno/tool learner (Mac-user)

Social Intelligence (Goleman-2006)

Comfortable with uncertainty (Shulman, 2004)

Situational Flexibility (appropriate risk-taker)

Build community (see community relationships as the principle tool of learning, teaching, growing co-constructed knowledge)

When you want to create better communities you might Dare to tell your stories Ask people to collaborate with you Develop those relationship skills Change environments when possible Cultivate collaborative and positive attitudes Be sure to appreciate what is already there that is good and helpful

Dare to tell your stories

Ask people to collaborate with you

Develop those relationship skills

Change environments when possible

Cultivate collaborative and positive attitudes

Be sure to appreciate what is already there that is good and helpful

Collegiality defined Having frequent conversations about teaching and learning; Observing and providing feedback for one another; Working collaboratively on the curriculum; Teaching one another about teaching, learning and leading.

Having frequent conversations about teaching and learning;

Observing and providing feedback for one another;

Working collaboratively on the curriculum;

Teaching one another about teaching, learning and leading.

How would you rate yourself? 1-10 (5 being average) Tim’s 1. Out of the Box Thinking 6 2. Techno/tool learner 4 3. Social Intelligence 3-6 4. Situational Flexibility 7 5. Comfortable with uncertainty 7 6. Build community (see community 7 relationships as the principle tool of learning)

Constraints Isolation Overloading Time Compatibility Fear and insecurity Turf wars Conservative tendencies

Design for uncertainty, not certainty. Design to maximize chance. “ Education is not a place for modest ambitions.” Lee Shulman, 2004 p.497 (The Wisdom of Practice)

Create Community Cultivate your Wikinicity! The Woman Magician

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Terima Kasih Nandri Xie Xie Ni Kamsahamida Arrigato Thank you Gracias Dankeschon Grazzi Merci