This document discusses open learning and how to become an open learner by connecting, collaborating, and creating. It encourages becoming a connected educator by following people on social media and joining online communities. It suggests collaborating by linking posts, answering questions, and participating in open projects. Creating involves making open courses, projects, and interactions. The document also describes open opportunities at ADLC such as joining Yammer and Twitter to practice social media skills and connecting with others using the hashtag #adlc.

1. Open Learning k12
BREAKING DOWN
CLASSROOM WALLS
@VERENANZ

2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who
Use Technology – Angela Meiers

3. From:
http://victoriadee.blogspot
.ca/2010/01/monday-
meditation-voice-by-
shel.html

4. My Story
Mom, Teach
er and Open
Learner

5. ADLC School Bus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viydook/795
7840724/

6. The OC@ADLC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorbould/3946877026/

7. Are Open Classrooms Public Spaces?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/8027532130/lightbox/

8. Let’s Consider what Open Classrooms look like:
Open in Africa Open in North America
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisabroa
d/5737441972/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/judyb

9. What is Open Learning ?
Using Technology
to help everyone Authentic learning
learn from each experiences
other
Using Web 2.0
Using social
Tools to create
media to connect
digital artifacts
A way to
experience Digital
Citizenship and
Digital Identity

10. Open Learning

11. Continuum of Open Learning k12

12. Have you used it?
Have you edited it?
Have you
created
anything for it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pa
ge

13. http://www.danpontefract.com/the
-90-9-1-collaboration-paradox-
org%E2%80%99s-should-aim-to-

14. Focus:
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.ca/2012/06/sev
en-degrees-of-connectedness_06.html

15. 7 Degrees of Connectedness
1. Lurker
2. Novice
3. Insider
4. Colleague
5. Collaborator
6. Friend
7. Confidant

16. http://morethanenglish.edublogs.org/for-teachers/blooms-revised-
taxonomy/

17. We are all Learners –
Together

18. People build up walls, not to keep others out, but to
see who cares enough to break them down
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linneberg/4467578542/size
s/m/in/photostream/

19. Synchronous – Cohort or
Collaborative Group
Activity/Course/Project

20. No Hierarchy – Everyone
is learning together

21. Teachers are encouraged to
connect and interact with
students using authentic
means of communication

22. "Nodes" (Digital Learning
spaces)used to interact
and connect outside of
“regular” spaces

23. Flipped Learning –
Multimedia - UDL

24. Content given in Digital
Format

25. Choice of
Activities/Task –
Inquiry Based
Learning, Projects

26. Activities presented in
open forum for
feedback

27. Assessment:
Competency Based
/Badges/Dual Credit

28. All activities can be
“tracked” using social
media

29. Peer Feedback

30. CREATE
Be the change that you want to see…
OER
Open
Learning
Open Open
Instruction Leadership

31. 4 R’s of OER
• Reuse–copy verbatim
• Redistribute–share with others
• Revise–adapt and edit
• Remix–combine with others
• Constant opportunity to meet the needs of the learner
• http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/why-be-open

32. Open Content

33. Arguments for OER
http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/open-collaborative-

34. Open Classroom Model
Connect Collaborate Create

35. How to Become an Open Learner:
CONNECT:
1) Become a Connected Educator –Reread the 7
Stages of Connected Learning
2) Encourage your students to become, “Connected
Learners” – Start learning with them
3) Learn about social media – get on twitter and
follow people
4) Read other people’s blogs, start to create your
own
5) Join an Online Community like Classroom 2.0

36. How to Become an Open Learner:
COLLABORATE:
1. Start to link posts and answer the people you follow
on twitter. Create a Storify about your conversation
and share it.
2. Reply to people’s blogs, twitter questions and in
discussion posts in open educational communities
3. Think about your Digital Identity Online – and how
to help and support others
4. Participate in open projects like Flat Classroom or
collaborate with another class on skype or on a
blog/Wiki

37. CREATE
Open Open Open
Courses Projects Interactions

38. Open at ADLC
 Open Opportunities at ADLC:
1) Become a Connected Educator
2) Consider the idea that we are all learners. That our role is to support and
guide other learners.
3) Join “Yammer” - It’s a walled garden, or sandbox in which to practice and
learn social media skills.
4) Join twitter - When you start to collaborate with others, please add the
hashtag #adlc
5) Browse through:
ADLC - OER LiveBinder
OpenLearningk12 wiki
6) Contact me about how I can support your “open ideas”