Creating effective learning in the Social Age

Julian Stodd BSc (hons) MA !

Captain at SeaSalt Learning

Effective Learning in the Social Age!!Learning is changing: facilitated by technology, driven by changes in the ways we work, live and play. In this session we'll be exploring the ecosystem of the Social Age and looking at a methodology for how people learn that we can apply across every channel.!!

• Exploring how the ecosystem of the Social Age impacts on organisational learning!!• The evolving nature of work: remote working, the death of the office, social collaborative technology!!• The social contract: understanding how our relationship with organisations is adapting and issues of trust and change that impact on this!!• Knowledge and learning: exploring how knowledge is no longer enough. What we have to do is create meaning, to be effective.!!• Methodology for learning: exploring how we can anchor everything against a learning methodology - context, demonstration, exploration, reflection, assessment and

footsteps.!!• Exploring how this is applied across different learning modalities: face to face, technology enabled, social, mobile etc!!• Exploring the benefits of this type of holistic approach!!!

Happy to provide free copies of these books that may be relevant:!!Julian Stodd's learning methodology [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/384181]!Exploring the World of Social Learning [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/204432]

The Social Age• The semi formal layers that surround the formal

• Supported by communities: constantly connected

• Facilitated by technology: effortlessly

• An evolved nature of work and play

• Beyond knowledge: it's about creating meaning

The Social Age

• What is different about your social life than from 10 years ago?

• What is different about your work from ten years ago?

• What is different about how you learn from 10 years ago?

The nature of work in the Social Age

What does the organisation give you?

• Technology - but is it agile? Is it a mechanism of control?

• Space - but do you need it? Do the walls constrain you?

• Community - but you have your own. What's it's purpose?

• Structure - codified knowledge: but is it up to date?

Our evolving relationship with knowledge

• In the old world: knowledge was power

• In the Social Age, power comes through reputation and sharing, humility and community

• Roles are contextual: we are adaptable

• We need to utilise knowledge to create meaning

We need to create spaces for creativity

What do effective organisations look like?

Social Leadership

Social Collaborative Technology

What have you got?• Facebook

• Twitter

• Mail

• Shazam

• Google Maps

• A game

• A railway timetable

• Photos

• Music

What have you got?• Facebook - community, sharing, collaboration, cohesion

• Twitter - sharing, news, highly curated

• Mail - sharing, volume, formal?

• Shazam - identifying, capturing, sharing, learning

• Google Maps - functional, performance enhancing, external knowledge

• A game - distracting, competing, networked

• A railway timetable - knowledge, performance enhancing, just in time

• Photos - capturing, narrating, sharing

• Music - entertaining, cohesive

How should we structure learning?

How does your organisation use

knowledge?

How does your organisation use knowledge?

• To inform

• To control

• To do things

• To create transparency

• To build tribal capability

• To earn money

How does your organisation control knowledge

• Through technology

• Through elders

• Through physical constraints

• Through geography

• Through mindset

• Through formal heirarchy

Communities

Does your organisation have formal communities?

• Were they put in place by the organisation or emergent from the community?

• Are they used to broadcast or co-create?

• Who owns them?

• Are you on top of issues of privacy and permanence?

Sense Making Spaces

Authenticity• We are experts at spotting authenticity

• Only authentic tones of voice generate engagement

• Curiosity

• Humility

• Recognises everyday reality

Reputation

• The Social Age is a Reputation economy

• We can't rely on our positional authority for social learning

Reputation subverts hierarchy

Exercise: create your framework for moderation

• What is your stance?

• What is your tone of voice?

• Where will your authority come from?

• How does this fit within the social contract?

• Will you share this with your learners or co-create it with them?

• Are you prepared, as an organisation, to reframe?

A methodology for learning

• 8 week scaffolded experience

• Gateways are calls

• Structured by 4 Q's a section

• Social space for collaboration

• Group narrative shared through blog

Example of Scaffolding

• 5 week scaffolded experience

• Learners seek out experiences within the scaffolding

• They quantify what they find

• The community carries out the 'sense making'

Example of Scaffolding

STAY IN TOUCH

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