Collaboration in learning: Teaching in the Networked World

Collaboration in learning

Teaching in the networked world

Mal Lee
mallee@mac.com

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Introduction
• Solitary, insular teaching – that of paper based era
• Collaborative, networked, 24/7/365 – that of digital and networked
world
• Concomitant change of mindset
• Awareness of macro trends
• Ever lessening importance of the physical place
• Increasing centrality of Web and demise of traditional boundaries,
• Shift – logical extension of wider societal developments
• Today’s webinar – about readying your school, staff and community


School Teaching Today
• Insular, conducted behind closed doors of physical place
• Within set hours – for less than 20% of learning time
• Mass, class group
• Paper based – paper technology shaping nature of the teaching and
school organisation
• Constancy and continuity
• Solitary teachers – closed classroom doors – teacher as gatekeeper
- controlling teaching and assessment
• Distrust
• Pronounced focus on cognitive/the formal curriculum
• Comment?


Out of school ‘teaching’
• By default left to parents/children
• In context, anywhere, anytime, 24/7/365
• Pronounced impact of learning culture of home/parents
• Networked, collaborative, connected
• Normalised use of suite of digital technologies
• Universal nature learning by young evidenced since mid
90’s
• Personalised, largely self-directed


Out of school ‘teaching’
• Personalised, largely self-directed
• Increasing self-teaching – with peer and network support
• Constantly evolving, ‘buzz of the new’
• Unfettered exploration of ever-evolving opportunities
• Intrapersonal, interpersonal and to a lesser extent
cognitive development focus (Pellegrino and
Hilton, 2012)
• Trust
• Comment?


Collaboration – home and school
• Rhetoric and reality – miniscule genuine collaboration
• ‘One – way collaboration’ (Grant, 2010)
• Control with schools/teachers/bureaucrats
• Parent/student disempowerment, shut out
• Pronounced turnaround with digital normalisation and school’s move to
networked mode
• Teacher willingness to collaborate
• Key - the astute principal
• Why so? – yet to be researched
• Uncertainty re need for digital normalisation by school
• Seeming natural growth in school’s desire to collaborate


Teaching in networked schools
• Experience of pathfinders in UK, US, NZ and Australia
• Early days – still relative rarity
• Across socio-economic, size, location, sector spectrum
• Visionary leadership
• Willing staff
• Conducive learning culture
• Willing and capable community
• Apposite digital infrastructure
• Digital normalisation
• Concern to provide apposite C21 education for every child


Our vision
In summary, collaborative teaching seeks to:

• build on the excellent work being done within the school walls
• enhance the teaching by coupling it with that being done outside
the school walls by all the teachers of young people
• improve the quality of the contribution by all those teachers
• more consciously improve the quality of the teaching of the young
people from birth onwards in every facet of their lives.

Lee and Ward 2012, p50


Nature of the collaboration
• Multi-faceted, networked and unbounded
• Networked mindset
• Using resources beyond school gates
• Using community as a teaching space
• Authentic and inquiry based learning
• Collaboration across professional teaching community
• Collaboration with other professionals
• Collaboration with families – parents, carers and
grandparents


Evidence for collaboration
• Parents as prime teachers – from birth onwards
• Grandparents as teachers
• Students as their own teachers
• Student attainment and home-school collaboration
• BYOT
• Potential for more personalised learning
• Bridging the divide
• Streamlining and improving teaching
• Underdeveloped potential


Connected learning
• Continued and escalating enhancement of the young’s ‘out of
school’ connected learning
• Building on near 20 years evolution
• Bringing the networked mode into the school
• Recognising individual children’s preferred mode of learning and
building upon
• Impact of current laissez faire approach
• Propensity for the educationally advantaged to be further
advantaged
• Vital need for astute teacher intervention to assist all students
• MOOCs – the elephant in the room


24/7/365 ‘teaching’
• Merging of the ‘in’ and ‘out’ of school teaching
trend lines
• Shaping apposite 24/7/365 holistic education for
life and work
• Involving all the teachers of the young – from
birth onwards
• Opportunities, challenges and potential pitfalls


Conclusion
• Understanding the megatrends
• Readying your school
• It’s the mindset – not the resources
• And astute school leadership


mallee@mac.com
http://www.malleehome.com
Skype - malcolmrlee
+61 2 44 717947


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