Learning2gether to develop Personal Learning Networks to model collaborative learning for teachers to use with students

Vance StevensEnglish teacher coordinator, UAE Naval CollegeCALL technology trainer KBZAC / HCT / ADMC / CERTCoordinator for Webheads in ActionaPlanet, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Sept 22, 2012

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My presentations are always online

• This presentation on Slideshare• http://www.slideshare.net/vances/

• How the tools can be applied with students• http://

vancestevens.posterous.com/a-small-research-project-on-student-attitudes

• Teacher training in Web 2.0 toolkit for academic presentation skills• http://toolkit4Learning.blogspot.com

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Where is Learning2gether?

• Event planning wiki: http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/• Upcoming events: http

://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded • Index to archives: http://

learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex • Archive of podcasts and live recordings• http://learning2gether.posterous.com

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Why Learning2gether

Why School? Threads in Will Richardson’s latest book• Information scarcity vs. abundance• Two approaches to the problem• Deliver the old model better.• Rethink it differently

• Herbert Gerjoy’s definition of illiterate • Not those who cannot read or write,• But those who cannot • ‘learn, unlearn, and relearn’

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Richardson’s 6 ways to relearn• Share everything (or at least something)• Discover, don’t deliver, the curriculum• Talk to strangers (filter and interact with

others in your personal learning network)

• Be a master learner• Do real work, for real audiences• Transfer the power (over who drives

curriculum)

How to do these things is ineffable(must be experienced) 5

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Alan November on Global Voice

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“Can you imagine giving every kid a laptop and not changing the audience? But changing the device? How do you reconcile that?”

http://edtechcrew.net/

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Alan November on Global VoiceThis slide is not to present, but simply to document Alan November’s remarks recorded in a podcast available from • Ed Tech Crew @ ICTEV Ep 200 Interview with Alan November

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EG_iwLrVw• From 4:15 in the video: “If we just take what’s going on right now

and allow children to have a global voice, under the careful guidance of a teacher, then I think we’ll teach children more about the ethics, social responsibility, creativity, collaboration that is absolutely essential in a global economy, Otherwise, it’s audience of one. I mean, can you imagine giving every kid a laptop and not changing the audience? But changing the device? How do you reconcile that?” But what would you guys say, let’s give every kid a laptop but they’re still only handing in their work to a teacher? … that’s not transactional, that’s a waste of money, that’s what that is.”

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What is Learning2gether

• Class roots online teacher professional development• Distributed• Community of Practice• PLN (Personal learning network)

• Models teaching through modeling learning• A teacher models and demonstrates• A student practices and reflects

• Wiki-based• In theory, anyone can join, write in an event 8

http://classroots.org/

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PLN Connections: TESOL Arabia Edtech-SIG

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http://taedtech.ning.com/events/

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PLN Connections: K12 Online Conference• Tentatively planning a joint event in November

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http://k12onlineconference.org/

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PLN Connections: TESOL CALL-IS

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http://www.facebook.com/TESOLCALLIS

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PLN Connections: EVOElectronic Village Online

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http://evosessions.pbworks.com

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PLN connections: etc.

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And to Webheads in Action, IATEFL, aPlanet …

http://aplanetconference.wordpress.com/

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How Learning2gether began

• 1998-1999• Writing for Webheads• Weekly meetings each Sunday noon GMT at http://tappedin.org • Archives of logged chats

• All: http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chatlogs.htm• Turkey meets China in 2001:

http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm

• 2000 - 2002• Online events at conferences where we put students in touch with

teachers using voice• Bb/Collaborate = Elluminate grant from http://learningtimes.net

• 2002• Webheads in Action http://webheads.info

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Writing for Webheads 1998-2002

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http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm

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Webheads in Action since 2002

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http://vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads_evo.htm

http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej51/ej51int/

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More history

• Webheads in Action Online Convergence• 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org • Hosted in Elluminate by Learning Times

• We learned about “speed geeking” at WiAOC 2009• We tried to organize one online:

http://learning2gether.posterous.com/teresa-almeida-deca-taggalaxy • Speedlifing met with greater success:

http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html

• Learning2gether came about in 2010 to• Enhance quality of our weekly meetings• Avoid more 3-day = 72-hour webcastathons

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Speed-lifing

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http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html

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How it works:Event Planning Wiki

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32204849/FrontPage

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Upcoming events

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/volunteersneeded

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Index to archives

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http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/archiveindex

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Archive of podcasts and live recordings

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http://learning2gether.posterous.com/

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Scoop.it view with audio player

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http://www.scoop.it/t/learning2gether

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Funding for Learning2gether

What funding?• No funding at all, ever, since 1998• No hidden agendas, truly cooperative• Rely on Cognitive Surplus (Clay Shirky)

http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-cognitive-surplus-drives-us-to.html

• Intrinsic motivation of people to • Share, help others • be highly regarded professionally• feel good about themselves

• Monetization would undermine cooperative mutual community support (Deci, Soma experiments)

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http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p96Wmn-ER4QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=deci+soma+research+motivation&ots=3cHPr-t922&sig=ZqB8TGpkrvt2Wj8DKACBFgDTYzc#v=onepage&q=deci%20soma%20research%20motivation&f=false

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Bb Collaborate/Elluminate grant from LearningTimes

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http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

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Google + HangoutScreenshot showing Jeff Lebow’s mashup of Etherpad chat with streaming YouTube video

On completion of the Hangout the video is stored on YouTube and made available via its YouTube link 26

http://learning2gether.posterous.com/luis-arnoldo-ordonez-hangout-with-jeff-lebow

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What we learn 2gether• How to put together courses quickly using• Wiki http://acommunication.pbworks.com to serve as a portal to

display student work• Some of the free Web 2.0 tools involved, • Prezi http://prezi.com to mount online presentations• SurveyMonkey http://surveymonkey.com - gather data in online

surveys• Google Docs http://docs.google.com to negotiate content and

language interactively• Jing http://jingproject.com to capture charts from SurveyMonkey• Slideshare http://slideshare.net where students display their PPT

slide shows online• Blog http://blogger.com to reflect on what students had learned 27

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How colleagues benefit

http://toolkit4learning.blogspot.com/2012/09/introduction.html

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Data show students benefit from what we learn

They favored the mind-map approach

They’d use prezi again and think we should teach it to others

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pQxTmDCArZjG84lzY4C9UZAOJMt6N5S5PJsgLGPnvPg/edit#heading=h.3gdoa4km0b9q

For qualitative data from blog posts, visit

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Our upcoming Sunday events

• September 23, 2012 – Simulcast presentation from BrazTESOL on Neuroscience in Education, 13:00 GMT

• September 30, 2012 – last day of 3-day SLanguages Annual Symposium on AVALON

• October 7, 2012 – Carla Arena on Digital Curation

• October 14, 2012 - Vance Stevens: Web 2.0 toolkit for academic presentation skills, EdTech Lounge Event

• October 21 and 28 – we welcome your participation

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Please join us http://learning2gether.pbworks.com

• If you are seriously interested in professional development and would like to join in our activities, we welcome your participation.

• Even better, we would appreciate your SHARING with colleagues something that YOU know at these events.

• Just join the wiki and write yourself in• http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/cfp

My presentations are always online

This one is at: http://slideshare.net/vances