Clc2011 iste

Living and Learning in a Global CommunityInnovative Schools Virtual University

Housekeeping
Paperless handouts and community spacehttp://www.iste2011.org/group/clcSheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.comPresident21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollaborative.com

Robin Ellis
Blog: http://connectedtalk.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/robinellis
Powerful Learning Practice: http://plpnetwork.com/about/our-team/

Driving Questions
What are you doing to contextualize and mobilize what you are learning?
How will you leverage, how will you enable your teachers or your students to leverage- collective intelligence?

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Lead Learner
Native American Proverb
“He who learns from one who is learning, drinks from a flowing river.”
Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the Year
Describes her classroom as a place where the teacher is the “lead learner” and “the classroom walls are boundless.”

Setting the Stage: What is 21st Century Learning?
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/clc-iste

Welcome to the human network

Are you Ready for Leading in the 21st Century
It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future.

The pace of change is accelerating

Knowledge Creation
It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.
That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

For students starting a four-year education degree, this means that . . .
half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.”
-David Warlick
http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

What about the world and society has changed since you went to school?
What about students has changed since you went to school?
What about schools has changed or not changed since you went to school?What should School 2.0 look like in order to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner?

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

Shift in Learning = New Possibilities
Shift from emphasis on teaching…
To an emphasis on co-learning

Connected Learning
The computer connects the student to the rest of the world
Learning occurs through connections with other learners
Learning is based on conversation and interaction
Stephen Downes

Rhizomatic learning
cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2009
http://archbold-station.org
“...multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.”

“Schools are a node on the network of learning.”

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?
Photo credit: Alec Couros

Inclination toward being open minded
Dedication to the ongoing development of expertise
Creation of a culture of collegiality- believing that "None of us is as good as all of us" and that the contributions of all can lead to improved individual practice
Willingness to be a co-learner, co-creator, and co-leader
Willingness to leaving one's comfort zone to experiment with new strategies and taking on new responsibilities
Dispositions and Values
Commitment to understanding gained through listening and asking good questions related to practice
Perseverance toward deep thought by exploring ideas and concepts, rethinking, revising, and continual repacking and unpacking, resisting
urges to finish prematurely
Courage and initiative to engage in discussions on difficult topics
Alacrity to share and contribute
Desire to be transparent in thinking

What does it mean to work in a participatory 2.0 world?

PLCs = local, f2f, collective
CoPs = online, deep, collective
PLNs= online, nodes, individual
Knowledge Building Should be…
Passive
Reflective
Active
PLP takes a 3-pronged approach to PD
Professional Learning Communities
Global Communities of Practice or Inquiry
Personal Learning Networks

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.
What are the characteristics of distributed learning communities?
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010
In the digital age, common location is not as important as common interest.
http://www.psfk.com

A Definition of Networks
From 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.

Making connections
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.
(It’s not what you know, or who you know- but do you know what who you know- knows? )
Source: Wikipedia
http://www.pestproducts.com

“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st Century.”
- Howard Rheingold
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu

Open Networks
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)
Practitioners’ knowledge = content & context

Networks
Community

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.
FOCUS: Local , F2F, Job-embedded- in Real Time

FOCUS: Individual, Connecting to Learning Objects, Resources and People – Social Network Driven

Community of Practice
CoPs are not about bringing knowledge into the organization but about helping to grow the knowledge that we need internally within our organizations.

Do it Yourself PD as Self Directed Connected Learners
Communities
Of Practice
DIY-PD
PersonalLearningNetworks
F2F Teams
"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.)

Communication

... and it’s often self organized

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.

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.
We 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

Dynamics of Different Network Types

Is learning simply about gaining knowledge...?
www.newmediamusings.com

... or making connections?

the
Connected
Educator/Learner
the power of personal learning networks

pd on fast forward

responsive
responsive

personalized

interconnected

global connections

need to be
built

pre-pln
isolation

sampling the spectrum with RSS

Reading Blogs

constantly connecting

making
personal
connections

start
small

RSS
learning by
lurking

blog
learn from others
express yourself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62884569@N00/2060506605
BLOG

develop your online identity

http://wordle.net/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tengtan/2721125673/
Sharing Links

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

investing in collaborations

Virtual Community
A 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)

Collaboration
Connection
Celebration
Communication
User Generated Content

Creative Commons
Ultimately: Freedom to openly access, use, copy, modify and share content

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.

Your community’s life-cycle
Sustain/Renew
Grow
Level of energy and visibility
Start-up
Close
Plan
Discover/
imagine
Incubate/ deliver value
Focus/ expand
Ownership/ openness
Let go/ remember
Time
From: Cultivating Communities of Practice by Wenger, McDermot and Snyder

Characteristics of a healthy community

“A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
Internet tribes
“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”

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

Join our list
Join our forum
Join our community
Degrees of Transparency and Trust
Increasing collaboration and transparency of process

PLCs = local, f2f, collective
CoPs = online, deep, collective
PLNs= online, nodes, individual
Knowledge Building Should be…
Passive
Reflective
Active
PLP takes a 3-pronged approach to PD
Global Communities of Practice or Inquiry

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker
http://pixdaus.com

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