The SPACE Between Action Learning Action Research Assoc. 2009

Markus Angermeier Source: http://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/

Markus Angermeier Source: http://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/

Anglesea NEIP

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Known

Known

Simple & Complicated

Complex

Complex

Not Known

Unpredictable

Multiple Feedback Loops

Complex Complicated

CynefinDave Snowden@Cognitive Edge

ActionCritical Reflection

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE)

“A process in which a group of people come together to help each other to learn from their experience.” ALARA Website

Action Learning

“Seeks to remove the gap between deciders and doers.” ALARA Website

Action Research

“Seeks to remove the gap between deciders and doers.” ALARA Website

Action Research

“Together they decide what is to be done.” ALARA Website

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”

Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)

“If a person has an Ah-Ha! moment in ‘action’ and no one ever builds on it, did it even happen in the first place?” Geoff Brown

What FACTS and pieces of information do you remember?A Debrief discussion of Clay Shirky’s 2009 presentation to the TED Conference

What FACTS and pieces of information do you remember?

What was new or surprising?

What FACTS and pieces of information do you remember?

What was new or surprising?

What implications does this have for experiential learning?

InstitutionsCoordination

Produce & Share

Watch & Consume

InstitutionsCoordination

Web 2.0 Web 1.0

Produce & Share

Watch & Consume

InstitutionsCoordination

Produce & Share

Watch & Consume

InstitutionsCoordination

Produce & Share

Watch & Consume

InstitutionsCoordination

Produce & Share

Watch & Consume

InstitutionsCoordination

“We make meaning out of information through conversations” Clay Shirky

“Try lots and lots of new things and fail informatively so you can find a skull on a pikestaff somewhere”

Clay Shirky

“Certain technologies can amplify collective action.” Howard Rheingold

“But it’s not the technology ... it’s the emerging social practices” Howard Rheingold

Blogs in Plain English

Action

Critical Reflection

Geoff Brown’s 2009 Social Media Snapshot …

skype

yes!andspace my blog

Podcasts our interviews

posterous another blog

twitter microblogging

wiki for professional development

wiki for community projects

Groupsites tribes

YouTube my videos

slideshare my slideshows

flickr my pictures

delicious my bookmarks

Google feedreader

Google accounts

facebook just because!?

tangent home page

Benefits for me & others

EntrepreneursA fun game where participant’s are invited to ‘suspend judgment’ of Social Media applications like Twitter … and in small groups propose

Action Learning &/or Action Research applications in the form of a pitch or proposal for funding.

CentralisedSpoke & Hub

Distributed

1 more thing

1 more thing

ThankyouGeoff Brown

www.tangentconsulting.com.au

The Fine Print and AcknowledgementsThanks to Hugh McLeod for creating such accessible and wonderful comics - http://www.gapingvoid.com/

Thanks to friend and colleague Simon Kneebone for all of his great cartoons and ideas

Thanks to Mark Earls for writing the book Herd and making the concepts of complexity and behaviour change make sense to me! Mark’s blog is here - http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/

Thanks to Dave Snowden over at Cognitive Edge for the Cynefin Framework and stories about 10 y.o. boys birthday parties on his podcasts. Dave’s blog is here - http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/

Thanks to Viv McWaters for providing me the inspiration to pursue all this stuff AND for her own writings on her blog over here - http://vivmcwaters.com.au/

Thanks to Faris Jakob for his presentation Be Nice or Leave (I lifted a few slides from you) - http://www.slideshare.net/farisyakob

Thanks to crew at NESTA Connect this great blog post on Valuing Networks - http://blogs.nesta.org.uk/connect/2008/12/connecting-dots-and-valuing-networks.html

Thanks to Clay Shirky (http://www.shirky.com/weblog/) and Howard Rheingold (http://www.rheingold.com/) for their books and blogs and ideas

Thanks to Karl Fish for his great Slideshow Video Did You Know (and for the use of the some of the slides) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

… and finally thanks to Garr Reynolds for Presentation Zen. Without it I’m afraid all of the slides would look like slide # 28