1. social networks as platforms to develop reflective learning
michael rowe physiotherapy department university of the western
cape
3. clinical practice the healthcare practitioner must
constantly review and re-prioritise existing and new problems in an
enterprise of active interpretation thornquist (2001a, 2001b)
practice knowledge exists as a relation between questions and
answers in a context of meaning that is often intuitive and hidden
higgs, et al. (2004)
4. tacit knowledge is hard to teach
5. reflection an important component of clinical practice schon
(1987) ...a mental process with purpose...applied to relatively
complicated...problems for which there is no obvious solution moon
(1999)
6. but reflection is also hard to teach boud & walker
(1999)
7. making meaning through reflection is more important than
memorising content
8. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial environment
1. enables external knowledge to be internalised 2. develops
problem solving strategies 3. promotes critical reflective thinking
4. challenges unshared biases mason (1998), hanko (1999)
9. knowledge: a negotiated outcome of social learning
experiences that are integrated within the network siemens
(2004)
10. a new communication paradigm is being constructed through
community interaction and participation, which enables the
formation of loosely connected groups with relative ease wesch
(2009) http://bit.ly/8ZaA6g
11. sharingknowledgeandexperiences in asocialenvironment?
12. social networks
13. to determine the impact of participation in a social
network on reflective practices in a south african undergraduate
physiotherapy department aim
14. method set up a social network survey network participants
(pre-participation) conduct workshops run assignments survey
network participants (post-participation) ethical
considerations
15. dashboard (overview)
16. comments in detail
17. user interface
18. where are we now?
19. sharing content (knowledge?)
20. sharing experiences
21. reflective discussion
22. spontaneous group formation
23. most network activity is happening outside the assignment
boundaries
24. limitations access (technology) literacy (digital and
information) generally poor levels of engagement
25. conclusion did the social network facilitate reflection?
did lecturers facilitate reflection? did reflection just happen? is
it only reflection?
26. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial (social)
environment
27. url mrowe.co.za/blog twitter michael_rowe email
[email_address] thank you