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Chaos in Learningand resolving that chaos

through networking

Vance StevensLearning2gether with MultiMOOC

and YLTSIG EVO sessionsJanuary 26, 2014

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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

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What is Chaos?

Chaos Theory

Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal diagrams

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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.”

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Chaos Navigation

http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm

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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/

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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/

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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

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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


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