Nurturing your PLN for everyone’s ongoing professional development

Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks

Vance StevensPetroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Prepared for the TESOL Arabia conference March 12, 2010 Zayad University, Dubai

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Nurturing your PLN for everyone’s ongoing professional development

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Where to begin?From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way

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And … to TEACH is to LEARN - Vance

http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

Knowledge

Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

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http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html

How did you learn aboutCreative Commons?

http://creativecommons.org/


http://creativecommons.org/

Heard it through the grapevine?

http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art

Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/


http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874

How did you LEARN how tofind Creative Commons Images?


One State of Knowledge

http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/


Knowledge Changes



Paradigm Shift



Paradigm Shifts in Education

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10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift• Pedagogy:

Didactic --> constructivist• Modeling:

Do as I say --> AND as I do• Transfer:

Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice

• Trepidation:Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!”

• Literacy: Print literacy --> multiliteracies

• Heuristics: Client server --> peer to peer

• Sharing: Copyrighted --> creative commons

• Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies

• Directionality:Push --> pull

• Ownership:Proprietary --> open source

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Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net


Can’t get enough Wordle.net


Configurations for sharing and dissemination of knowledge

• Groups• Communities• Communities of practice• Connectivist perspectives

– Personal learning networks– Distributed learning networks– Rhyzomic learning

Attribution: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/


http://www.fullcirc.com/

Configurations

• Groups


Configurations

• Groups• Communities


Configurations

• Groups• Communities• Communities of

practice– Domain– Practice– Community


Configurations


practice• Networks

can include overlappingcommunities


Configurations


practice• Networks

and sampleConnections


• Webheads started as EFL class in 1998• WiA formed as result of 2002 EVO sesson• Educators who engage in

– Helping each other pursue lifelong, just-in-time, informal learning

– Through experimentation in use of social-media and computer mediated communications tools

– Webheads in Action Online ConvergenceWiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org


http://wiaoc.org/

Webheads: Group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/

Webheads: Community

Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/


http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/

Webheads: Community of Practice

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http://webheadsinaction.org/

Personal Learning Networks

Scott Leslie's PLE (above) and more PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks

• Downes on distributed learning networks– Knowing ( where’s Waldo?)

Once you know, you can’t not know

– Knowledge exists throughout nodes in a network

• Wenger notes (2002:6)– Increasing complexity of knowledge requires

greater … collaboration; whereas …– Half life of knowledge is getting shorter


Characteristics of CoPs

• They promote knowledge of a domain

• They revolve around a practice

• Community aspects– They form spontaneously, voluntarily– They have particularly defined community

spaces in which they interact

Most frequently understood to be defined by Etienne Wenger; e.g.

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Cormier - Rhizomatic Learning to deal with increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge

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Siemens – Connectivism stresses importance of pipes over content

Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg

Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info

http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2bgH%2b2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2fgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3d

http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09


http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2BgH%2B2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2FgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3D

http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09

Where do we get our models?

Our daily network interactions; e.g.Morning Tweets


Nings

http://cck2009.ning.com/

http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video


http://cck2009.ning.com/

http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video

Webcasts, Podcasts

http://edtechtalk.com/live

http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/


http://edtechtalk.com/live

http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/

Edmodo

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Waves

Who are the early pouncers?

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http://wave.google.com/

Waves and Wikis

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http://webheadswave.wikispaces.com/

Future of Learning in a Networked World

http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil


http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil

Implications for Teacher Professional Development

• Jack Richards plenary Denver TESOL 2009 (March 27)– About what teachers need to KNOW in order to

practice effectively– Research indicates that teachers tend to revert to

traditional methods rather than activate what they are exposed to in training curricula

• Derick Wenmouth (also from NZ) mentioned similar research findings at K-12 Online 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181


http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181

Problems• Teacher-trainers

– without sufficient experience with technology and

– rooted in old-school methodologies

– simply not modeling new age learning behaviors for trainees

Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aagIQGZq-RyFMO1dFHHNg


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Problems• Students and staff

– love to learn but hate to be taught,

– resent top-down approach forced on them by managers sometimes out of touch with actual needs of students and staff

Attribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo&feature=player_embedded


Solutions

• Allow, facilitate, encourage networking in meetings, conferences, classrooms

• Offer workshops/projects bottom up, as something that staff/students organize themselves

• Create atmosphere encouraging formation of communities of practice where staff/students interact with peers in other institutions


Models for professional and student skills development

• Encourage teams to organize training sessions that utilize synchronous and non-synchronous social media tools. Call them something other than ‘training’ sessions

• Use Nings / Moodles / wikis / Google Wave / Jing / uTiPu / or other LMS/CMS to replace outmoded email attachment systems

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

• Hold un-conferences and other grass roots events such as• Bar camps• LAN parties• Speed-geeking• Speed Lifing


How EVO models social Networking

• Almost all start with an email list, usually Yahoo Groups – http://yahoogroups.com

• Many have Nings – http://ning.com• Most use wikis; e.g. http://pbworks.com or

http://docs.google.com • Many use microblogging; e.g. http://twitter.com • Many socially bookmark URLs using

http://delicious.com or http://diigo.com • Most encourage reflective blogs; e.g.

http://blogger.com


Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:

• Social networks: Ning, TappedIn, EVO, WiAOC

• Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo

• Groups: YahooGroups and GoogleGroups

• Microblogging: Twitter, Plurk

• Instant messaging: Yahoo Messenger, Skype


Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:

• Blogging and podcasting: keeping current via RSS

• Wikis: PBWiki, Wikispaces

• Aggregation: Technorati, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Protopages, iGoogle, http://addictomatic.com, http://spezify.com


What is TESOL Arabia?• A group?• A community?• A network?


What is a conference?• What is an appropriate metaphor

for conference attendance?– Group? Community? Network?

• Should teachers / students be cut off from their networks?– At school? Meetings? Conferences?


Some givens:• Growing numbers of teaching practitioners no

longer focus professional development activities on annual conferences

• Professional development is done – daily (weekly, etc.)– for free– at individual's pace and convenience

• Via Twitter, Ning, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, YahooGroups, TappedIn, WiZiQ ...


PD models for Networked Interaction

• CALL-IS (1984)• Electronic Village Online (EVO, since 2001)• Webheads (1998, WiA since 2002)• Steve Hargadon Classroom 2.0• Free online conferences

– George Siemens’s many conferences– WiAOC

(Webheads in Action Online Convergences)– K12 Online Conference


CALL? Think SMALL …• Social networking via social media is the new CALL

– Insinuating itself into our culture (Amazon, eBay) and work and social lives (Facebook)

– Denied as unhealthy; even dangerous by diminishing few– Used and promoted for education by growing number of

advocates– Relatively untapped potential for learning and education

• Now that the C in CALL is almost seamless, almost taken for granted, – Social networking is the new front-line– SMALL? (Social media assisted LL?)

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Professional Development

• Ongoing PD requires connection to a network• Conferences are good for face to face

interaction and interpersonal networking– But inefficient for sustained professional

development– Many conferences / schools etc require

participants to leave their networks at the door


Key to success in keeping current Expanding productive contacts within a network

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TESOL Arabia Conferences and Chapter Events

• In future, successful conferences and professional organizations will combine

• opportunities for interpersonal connection • with connectivity and • seamless interaction with distributed personal learning

networks

– Those that do not will be decreasingly relevant

• If conferences are networked?– Who benefits? Who loses?


• F2F conferences with rich networking potential– Learning 2.0 (Jeff Utecht, set up in Ning, Podcast)– IATEFL right now, getting better– NECC – Educon 2.0

Model Conferences

THINK SMALL

Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks

Vance StevensPrepared for the TESOL Arabia conference

March 12, 2010 Zayad University, Dubai

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Nurturing your PLN for everyone’s ongoing professional development

These slides posted at http://slideshare.net/vancesPresentation recording: http://tinyurl.com/100312vance-dubai