H818 Poster - A debate around educational jargon. Feb2015

1. MOOCs! What? – A debate around
professional educational jargon. Is it good for
inclusion? Do we need to promote staff
awareness? With Sheila Greenwood H818
Join me at the 2015 H818 Networked
Practitioner conference on “Open
Education in an Open Landscape”

2. MOOCs! What? – A debate on professional
jargon. By Sheila Greenwood H818
Interact with my Wordle head to join in a
quiz or a short survey.
To participate watch the automated
presentation, or click on each of the
numbers as you wish.

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
2) Professional jargon quiz
3) Jargon Video
4) Educational Prezi
5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

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5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

5. This project reflects the use of Jargon in education:
1. A tool of exclusion?
2. An efficient technical language?
3. "Cheeping birds? (Bolton, 2013)

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
2) Professional jargon quiz
3) Jargon Video
4) Educational Prezi
5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

7. Test your knowledge of Jargon from another profession.
Professional Jargon Quiz County Council Speak
a) What does it mean when
a department is “top down”?
1. It is short staffed?
2. It has too many managers?
3. It ignores people?
b)” Idea” is a simple word, but what do councils use instead?
1. Seedbed?
2. Green shoot?
3. Sapling?
a) Answer 3 It ignores people.
b) Answer 1 Seedbed.

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
2) Professional jargon quiz
3) Jargon Video
4) Educational Prezi
5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
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6) Moderation Jargon Clip

11. "If a discipline is to effectively control its intellectual turf,
it cannot afford to be too easy to understand by outsiders.
Jargon may serve as a convenient medium for
practitioners, but it simultaneously serves as a way of
excluding interlopers, namely those who have not served
their time in study and research." (Martin, 1992)

12. Secret Teacher: Jargon is ruining our
children's education

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
2) Professional jargon quiz
3) Jargon Video
4) Educational Prezi
5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

14. Survey Responses So Far
Click here to
participate in
this Jargon
survey

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1) Visual Moocs Intro
2) Professional jargon quiz
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4) Educational Prezi
5) Jargon Survey
6) Moderation Jargon Clip

16. • Jargon has its place in specialised technical communities, where it
helps communication and understanding.
• Once outside the community you have to explain clearly what you
mean, or risk excluding people.
• People using jargon to posture, evade, confuse or exclude people,
should not be tolerated.
TIP
Ask the question, I don’t understand what you mean.(Bolton 2013)

17. Thank you for viewing my poster.
See you at the H818 Conference 2015

18. References
Open University, (2015) “Initial conference call for the 2015 H818 Networked
Practitioner conference on ‘Open Education in an Open Landscape’”.
Available at https://Learn2open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=548651
Martin, B. (1992) ‘Why academic jargon thrives’ published as “Secret
passwords at the gate of knowledge,“ The Australian, 23 September 1992,
p.16. Available at https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/92aust09.html
Bolton, B. (2013) ‘Jargon. A tool of exclusion, efficient technical language or
just the cheeping of birds’? Whats the PONT. Available at
http://whatsthepont.com/2013/04/28/jargon-a-tool-of-exclusion-efficient-
technical-language-or-just-the-cheeping-of-birds/
Jargon Video (Edited Clip) Jargon (2012), YouTube video added by Andy
Plattner, [online]. Available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ZCuhtn35g
The Secret Teacher (2014), ‘Jargon is ruining our children’s education’. The
Guardian, Saturday 9 August 2014. Available at
www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/aug/09/secret-
teacher-jargon-education-pupils
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