Chaos in Learningand resolving that chaos
through networking
Vance StevensLearning2gether with MultiMOOC
and YLTSIG EVO sessionsJanuary 26, 2014
Vance Stevens January 2014
Who is a young Learner?
• Anyone under 60?
• I teach pilot cadets 18-20 years old
http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-force-academy-in-bbc-elluminate/
Find these slides at http://slideshare.net.vances
Vance Stevens January 2014
What is Chaos?
Chaos Theory
Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal diagrams
Vance Stevens January 2014
Stella Bastone on Chaos
http://youtu.be/ts6eHVGNjBc
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Downes on Chaos
• “What we see is chaos”
• From this YouTubeNoves maneres daprendre i treballar en la societat xarxa. Stephen Downes http://youtu.be/wyaeTvGQDsA
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Siemens on Chaos
Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related
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Siemens on Chaos"I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering structure. Our intent … is to argue that
– the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually the heart of the learning experience,
– but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then • you are eviscerating the learner’s experience • because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is walk
the path that I’ve formed. – When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s hack
their way through that path and getting the value of that learning experience and that sense-making process.”
Vance Stevens January 2014
Chaos Navigation
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm
Vance Stevens January 2014
Intuitive chaos navigation
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw
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What do learners need
In an era of accelerating change?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ1ULfQawk
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Thomas and Brown (2011) A New Culture of Learning
Teaching someone to fish helpful to extent that• fish stocks last and that • radically new techniques
for catching them won’t be required in his lifetime
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Coping with chaos requires
• Strategies• Literacies skills• A network= Connectivism
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37794987@N00/6313423840/
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How do we inculcate these skills in young learners?
• We have to learn them ourselves
• How do we do that
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/
http://learning2gether.net/about/
http://taedtech.ning.com
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My own approach = SMALLSocial media assisted language learning
• Webheads in Action
• EVO (Electronic Village Online)
• Learning2gether• MultiMOOC
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GWVtAH2yfp5tL3bdMg58_M5Deq36Ot_jQ_w8rflsGuA/edit#heading=h.wwfgxw6e65fd
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Training vs. Learning
I train SCUBA diving My students LEARN English• I don’t TEACH it – I can’t!
http://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html
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Avoiding chaos in language classes
A good thing?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldendragon613/250121794/
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Language is a chaotic problem
http://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8
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MOOCs• According to Cormier, MOOCs address the left
side of Cynefin quadrant
http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/
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xMOOCs and cMOOCs We must distinguish training• Coursera• EdX• Udacity
from deeper learning• CCK08• Rhizomatic Learning
http://www.connectivistmoocs.org/
Vance Stevens January 2014
A course about MOOCs(but not a MOOC)
http://gplus.to/multimooc
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Understanding MOOCs is Ineffable
http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/rhizo14-opml-feedlist/
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/
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Serendipitous Learning in MOOCs
http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/
Vance Stevens January 2014
Intuitive chaos navigation
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw
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How is chaos resolved?
• Conversations• Connections• Coping with chaos– Orient– Declare– Network– Cluster– Focus
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108458862109297898812
Success in a MOOC (Dave Cormier) http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0
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Practical Projects?Collaboration - Taiwan and KBZ Air Colleges
http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-force-academy-in-bbc-elluminate/
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Drones for Schools
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117228629115025838704
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To resolve the present chaos
• Rethink learning• Flip everything• Participate in MOOCs• Join colleagues
regularly online• Join and form
communities of practice• Empower your students
to be creativehttp://www.evoluzination.com/2014/01/talking-about-wearables-with-ieee.html
Vance Stevens January 2014
Thank YouThese slides with hyperlinks
hopefully preserved can be found athttp://slideshare.net/vances
http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3951143570/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en