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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.com

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What are you doing to contextualize and mobilize what you are learning?

How will you leverage, how will you enable your teachers or your students to leverage- collective intelligence?

Driving Questions

Mantra for today’s keynote…

We are stronger together than apart.

None of us is as smart, creative, good or interesting as all of us.

What does it mean to work in a participatory 2.0 world?

What is connected (21st Century) learning? Who are connected educators? What does it look like? How do you do it? Collective Wondering… What do you wonder about

connected learning? Be curious. How do you define it?How does your definition of learning influence your thinking?

• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR

Do it Yourself PDA revolution in technology has transformed the way we can find each other, interact, and collaborate to create knowledge as connected learners.

What are connected learners? Learners who collaborate online: learners who use social media to connect with others around the globe: learners who engage in conversations in online spaces: learners who bring what they learn back to inform their classrooms, schools, districts, and the world.

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Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.

The world is changing...

 

By the year 2011 80% of all Fortune 500 companies will be using immersive worlds – Gartner Vice President Jackie Fenn

Libraries 2.0Management 2.0 Education 2.0Warfare 2.0Government 2.0Vatican 2.0

Credit: Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid

Everything 2.0

What about the world and society has changed since you went to school?

What about students has changed since you went to school?

What about schools has changed or not changed since you went to school?

What should School 2.0 look like in order to meet the needs of the 21st Century learner?

6 Trends for the digital ageAnalogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating

Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.

Shifting From Shifting To

Learning at school Learning anytime/anywhere

Teaching as a private event Teaching as a public collaborative practice

Learning as passiveparticipant

Learning in a participatory culture

Learning as individuals

Linear knowledge

Learning in a networked community

Distributed knowledge

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Free range learnersFree-range learners choose how and what they learn. Self-service is less expensive and more timely than the alternative. Informal learning has no need for the busywork, chrome, and bureaucracy that accompany typical classroom instruction.

• THE CONNECTED EDUCATORThe Disconnect“Every time I go to school, I have to power down.” --a high school student

Are you Ready for Learning and Leading

in the 21st Century

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived! And schools who aren’t redefining themselves, risk becoming irrelevant in preparing students for the future. WHAT CHANGES?

Be a learner first--educator second • It's all about asking hard questions and then listening deeply

• A connected learner isn’t afraid to admit that they don’t know the answer to a question or problem, and willingly invite others into a dialogue to explore, discuss, debate, or generate more questions. (@barb_english)

• Asking our questions out in the open in connected ways @lisaneale

• I believe that being a connected learner leads to more questions than answers and that is good. I also believe that connected learners have to learn to take risks - exposing your learning and thoughts can be challenging @ccoffa

• Lurkers become learners. Learners become contributors. @sjhayes8

Community is built through the co-construction of knowledge

BE collaborative. Own it. Share with others. nvest in personal knowledge building so what you share with others will be of value.

The power of connections leads to collective efficacy, collective wisdom and long standing collective intelligence

Connected learners talk to strangers. We do not have to know the people with whom we are co-learning, co-constructing, co-creating.

Do you know--what who you know--knows? Leverage collective wisdom.

Innovation comes from wildly diverse experiences and loose connections

Connected Learning CommunitiesIn CLCs educators have several ways to connect and collaborate:• F2F learning communities (PLCs)• Personal learning networks (PLNs)• Communities of practice or inquiry (CoPs)

Networks are not enough. PLCs are not enough. We need a 3-prong approach.

1. Local community: Purposeful, face-to-face connections among members of a committed group—a professional learning community (PLC)

2. Global network: Individually chosen, online connections with a diverse collection of people and resources from around the world—a personal learning network (PLN)

3. Bounded community: A committed, collective, and often global group of individuals who have overlapping interests and recognize a need for connections that go deeper than the personal learning network or the professional learning community can provide—a community of practice or inquiry (CoP)

Talk a little about the communities and networks to which you belong and how they are helping you learn in a connected way?

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“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st Century.”

- Howard Rheingold

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu

“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”

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“A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

The New Third Place?

“All great societies provide informal meeting places, like the Forum in ancient Rome or a contemporary English pub. But since World War II, America has ceased doing so. The neighborhood tavern hasn't followed the middle class out to the suburbs...” -- Ray Oldenburg

"Connected learning exemplifies social justice principles. Once you have equal access provided by basic skills–then comes individualized learning–resulting in relationships with desired experts and co-learners–for expanding knowledge and skill growth=adds up to career and economic empowerment." (@dreeveslipscomb)

Connected learning requires an open mind and humility: Realizing that others may know more, may have experienced more, and being willing to really listen in order to learn. (@amyrass)

Do it Yourself learning begins with a willingness to be findable, clickable, searchable. If am unable to learn from you if you are not sharing online...I am unable to learn from you if I can’t find you and your ideas.

Empowerment/Self-Directed Learning/ Social Justice/ Democracy

Connected learning is as much about the journey of learning together as it is about what has been learned @harryniezen

If you are a connected learner – you become a connected educator. It changes the way you teach. It changes the way you learn.

Taking the world of learning away from the disconnect of the chalk/talk/write/listen to the interact/think/engage/model of connection revives learners who are jaded (that’s teachers too!) @denwise1It

With teaching and many connections comes much responsibility- I believe that to support our students to grow socially and emotionally, we must teach them to learn how to be connected. @teachingwthsoul

Honor the learner and what they know -- even if that learner is younger than you.

Model connectedness as a means of enabling your students to become empowered creators of their own personal learning networks

I believe that the educational journey of my students and the people they become is influenced by the connections they have.

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies

Develop proficiency with the tools of technology Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

Students become producers, notjust consumersof knowledge.

FORMAL INFORMAL

You go where the bus goes You go where you choose

Jay Cross – Internet Time

MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACHSYNCHRONOUS

ASYNCHRONOUS

PEER TO PEER WEBCAST

Instant messenger

forumsf2f

blogsphotoblogs

vlogs

wikis

folksonomies

Conference rooms

email Mailing lists

CMS

Community platformsVoIP

webcam

podcasts

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Worldbridges

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

How do you do it?-- TPCK and Understanding by DesignThere is a new curriculum design model that helps us think about how to make assessment part of learning. Assessment before , during, and after instruction.

Teacher and Students as Co-Curriculum Designers1. What do you want to

know and be able to do at the end of this activity, project, or lesson?

2. What evidence will you collect to prove mastery? (What will you create or do)

3. What is the best way to learn what you want to learn?

4. How are you making your learning transparent? (connected learning)

• 9000 School• 35,000 math and science teachers in 22 countries

How are teachers using technology in their instruction?

Law, N., Pelgrum, W.J. & Plomp, T. (eds.) (2008). Pedagogy and ICT use in schools around the world: Findings from the IEA SITES 2006 study. Hong Kong

SITE 2006IEA Second Information Technology in Education

Study

Increased technology use does not lead to student learning. Rather, effectiveness of technology use depended on teaching approaches used in conjunction with the technology.

How you integrate matters- not just the technology alone.

As long as we see content, technology and pedagogy as separate- technology will always be just an add on.

Findings

Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement.

Connected Learning

The computer connects the student to the rest of the worldLearning occurs through connections with other learnersLearning is based on conversation and interaction

Stephen Downes

Connected Learner ScaleThis work is at which level(s) of the connected learner scale?Explain.

Share (Publish & Participate) –

Connect (Comment and Cooperate) –

Remixing (building on the ideas of others) –

Collaborate (Co-construction of knowledge and meaning) –

Collective Action (Social Justice, Activism, Service Learning) –

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT

Photo Credit :http://www.annedavies.com/assessment_for_learning_tr_tjb.html

Shift From Shift To

Change is hard

Connected educators are more effective change agents

Let’s just admit it…

You are an agent of change!

Now. Always. And now you have the tools to leverage your ideas.

Real Question is this:Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve?

Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.

Last Generation

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