The elephant in the fire hose

The Elephant in the Fire Hose

Vance Stevens MultiMOOC: What was that all about?

Feb 23, 2014 in Moodle MOOC 3

Vance Stevens MM3 23rd Feb 2014

Jim Buckingham and Vance Stevens

conceived this regular weekly Learning2gether event is as a report and reflection on • badges• the latest foray into chaos in learning wrought

by the EVO session #MultiMOOC, • and what has been learned from it

This presentation is a vestige of EVO and the Rhizomatic Learning MOOC #Rhizo14, and takes place as a part of Moodle MOOC 3

http://learning2gether.net/about/

http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/

https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/content/1796/


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What do Rolling Stones have in common with teachers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnIn_QIZII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnIn_QIZII


Rolling Stones and super star teachers

Rolling Stones• Excellent performers • Practicing their calling

for decades • Touch a huge percentage

of the world’s population• Feel privileged to be in

the same space with them

Star teachers either – up and coming stars– experienced. slick performers

• Clearly passionate about what they do– What they do is second

nature

• Touch hearts and minds– Enable change in young and

old – Appreciated by all who

encounter their work face to face, in writing, or online.


Conferences Past and Present

Time with star educators was scarce• Had to attend

conferences to have moments with star educators

• Educators took role of sage on stage

• Audience in position of deference

Time with star performer educators now abundant• Exponentially increasing

opportunities for teachers all around the world to connect with acknowledged star performers – Now, on an almost daily

basis if they wish– Next year perhaps on an

hourly basis


Star performer educators are discovered in this ecosystem

– Star performer educators were always present in the deferential crowd around the podium

– Nowadays real stars more like guides on the side, configure MOOCs and events to• Encourage voices from those present• Encourage open mic conferences

– GEC conferences – Nellie Deutsch’s conferences with open Google Doc schedules– Webheads in Action Online Convergences pioneered in 2005 – K-12 Online conferences from 2006,

These encourage participants to simply sign themselves up, giving rising star performers their own podium


Speak ‘with’ audience, not ‘to’• Try to model

meaningful learning• It’s for learners, not

the teacher• Superstar teachers

lead with a good riff but recognize the jazz musician in each student and teaching peer, and invite them to join in, to create a learning experience in concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdF48wmHydo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdF48wmHydo


Visualize a network of fire hoses

http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/

Elephants



Situation chaotic and unfathomable

Do you feel that learning takes place best • when teachers are

present?– to call attention to what is

important– make the process more

efficient by relieving learners from distractions inherent in the fire hose.

Or do you feel that• this is exciting and

stimulating • not a problem really • deep learning can only

derive from meaningful attempts at resolving chaos?– George Siemens says that for

teachers to do the filtering that learners should be doing for themselves “eviscerates” the learning process.

QUESTION?


Elephants in the fire hoses

• MOOC geared toward learning from the fire hose by discerning and piecing together in a personal process of closure the parts of the elephant as they (the elephants) stream past. – Like salmon swimming upstream– Berry bush metaphor of Scanlon and Scanlon


Connectivism

Learning theory for the digital age because• Especially capable of addressing needs of

individual learners• Learners learning through networks have

knowledge accessible as needed• Content echoes through nodes on network, so

most important knowledge rises to the top• Most obscure can be found through its metadata

Accommodates lurkers


Lurkers are Good

We all lurk• We are all dedicated in something, • We have limited time to spend on our

passions Wenger calls them peripheral members, • Healthy to a community because – it connects that community with other

communities in which the lurker is quite possibly passionately active


What have we learned so far this year?

• In EVO• In CO14• In MM3• In Rhizo14• Or whatever

MOOC you have participated in?


1. Google+ Communities

From superstar educator Shelly Terrell and her team at Crafting the ePerfect Textbook

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108458862109297898812

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108458862109297898812


Content through Listly Arrays


2. Diagraming a Twitter tag network




Diagram for #Rhizo14

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw


3. Provoking discussion


From Superstar educator

Dave Cormier



4. About badges from Jim Buckingham

For more, slides at http://slideshare.net/vances

And read a draft of The Elephant in the Fire Hose here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0J3DaaQ4W_boJUjtGF7YuHjbXIzbMtWBDybWoR0QpY/edit

http://slideshare.net/vances

http://slideshare.net/vances



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The elephant in the fire hose