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Rethinking Learning in a Connected World

Dean Shareski #eysmp

Sudbury, ON October 28, 2014

Rethinking Learning in a Connected World

How is Learning

Different in 2014?

There’s never been a better time to be a learner

And a more challenging time for schools

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DISRUPTION

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“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”

Chris Avenir

Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.

1.Learning should be hard.

2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.

3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.

i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by others, it fails to meet the standard for academic rigor.

Chris Avenir

BHQBig Hairy Questions

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“This is not what I signed

up for”

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“I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a

student for a day.”

Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.

High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their

classes.

High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their

classes.

You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.

The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty

Instructor

Designer Guide

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Creative Commons – Attribution (CC BY 3.0) Education designed by Travis Yunis from the Noun Project

IT’S TIME TO RETHINK

EVERYTHING

IT’S TIME TO RETHINK

SOME THINGS

Rethinking Literacy

What does it mean to be a literate person in 2014?

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Consumption CreationReading

Listening

Viewing

Writing

Speaking

Representing

Listening

Viewing

WritingSpeaking

Representing

Listening

Viewing

WritingSpeaking

Representing

If a student goes a year without creating a video...

it would be like going a year without writing a story

I’m eating bacon

I like bacon

I have skills eating bacon

This is where I eat bacon

Watch me eating bacon

Here’s a vintage photo of my bacon

Here’s a recipe with bacon

I work for Google and I eat bacon

I’m listening to music about bacon

Rethinking Community

What is the role of community in the classroom?

“It still shocks me, the extent to which we continue to dumb down the affordances of the Web and technology for authentic learning in the service of keeping the system grinding no matter what the obstacle.”

Will Richardson

“Mind-Your-Own-Business Learning”

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“Can you send me all the assignments ahead of time?”

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“Time spent on community is always time well spent”

Tracy Carpenter#DEStreamathon

BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING

•Learning is Social and Connected

•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed

•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent

•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity

•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity•Learning Ought to be Joyful

The Course Trailer

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The Course Trailer

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Give them Their Own Space

Connect in Multiple Ways

Video Trumps Text

Audio Trumps Text

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Be a Connector

“The Lazy Professor”

Help them Build a Network

Play Together

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Play Together

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Expectations of Community

“Class size only matters if the teacher does everything”

Mark Prensky

Expectations of Community

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Rethinking Researchhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/iavi_flickr/9317042700

What role does research play in our current practice?

Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.

“My argument is not with educational research but with the imperative of evidence-based education policy. At its best, educational research can provide important insights into the relationship between various social and cultural variables and pedagogic outcomes.”

Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.

But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but

rather the increasing absence of any opportunity for them to exercise professional judgment and to learn the value of what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment.

Experimentation in education should be part of a teacher’s everyday life.

Courtesy D’arcy Norman

“Books are designed to contain all the information required to stop inquiries within the book’s topic. But now that our medium can handle far more ideas and information, and now that it is a connective medium (ideas to ideas, people to ideas, people to people), our strategy is changing. And that is changing the very shape of knowledge.”

The�� Death�� of�� Publishing“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky

Reflection

My Learning Project

My Teaching Staff

SAGE ON THE STAGE

GUIDE ONTHE SIDE

MEDDLER IN THE MIDDLE

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