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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://[email protected]
President21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollaborative.com
AuthorThe Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age
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My Community Work- Learning by Doing
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau
What are you doing to contextualize and mobilize what you are learning?
How will you leverage, how will you enable your teachers or your students to leverage- collective intelligence?
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
--Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
6 Trends for the digital age
Analogue DigitalTethered MobileClosed OpenIsolated ConnectedGeneric Personal Consuming Creating
Source: David Wiley: Openness and the disaggregated future of higher education
“We are tethered to our always on/ always on us communication devices and the people and things we reach through them.”
~ Sherry Turkle
“Think movement, positive motion, and new and improved direction.”
ARE YOU CHANGE SAVVY?
You can’t workshop this kind of change.
Is what you are doing now as a leader…- teacher leader- educational leader- formal leader having a systemic impact?- policy leader- student leader- community leader- thought leader
Are you using the smallest number of high leverage, easy to understand actions to unleash stunningly powerful consequence?
Professional development needs to change. We know this.
-----Do it Yourself PD
A revolution in technology has transformed the way we can find each other, interact, and collaborate to create knowledge
as connected learners.
Learners who collaborate online; learners who use social media to connect with others around the globe; learners who engage in conversations in safe online spaces; learners who bring what they learn online back to their classrooms, schools, and districts.
Who/What are connected, DIY learners?
What is Do -It- Yourself Learning ?
What Might Your Life as a DIY Connected Learner Look Like?
How Does One Get Started on the Path to Becoming a DIY, Connected Educator?
Status Quo-- Things are working well most of the time.
THENSomething happens that creates a sense of urgency to change. A desire to learn something new. You are presented with evidence that makes you feel something. It touches you in some way.
Maybe…- a disturbing look at a problem- a hopeful glimpse of the future- a sobering self reflection- you hear someone like Ewan McIntosh speak and are moved to action
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One of three things happen:
1. Complacency - You are moved but fail act - telling yourself or others, "Everything is fine."
2. False urgency - You are busy, working-working-working and never reflect or move yourself to action. You talk and it scratches the itch.
3. True urgency or passion- Urgent behavior is driven by a belief that the world contains great opportunities and great hazards. It inspires a gut-level determination to move, and shift, now. You are clearly focused on making real progress every single day.
You see it. You feel it and you are moved to change or act or learn
• Letting go of control• Willing to unlearn and relearn• Mindset of discovery• Reversed mentorship• Co-learning and co-creating• Messy, ground zero, risk taking
Dedication to the ongoing development of expertise
Shares and contributes
Engages in strength-based approachesand appreciative inquiry
Demonstrates mindfulness
Willingness to leaving one's comfort zone to experiment with new strategies and taking on new responsibilities
Dispositions and ValuesCommitment to understanding asking good questions
Explores ideas and concepts, rethinking, revising, and continuously repacks and unpacks, resisting urges to finish prematurely
Co-learner, Co-leader, Co-creator
Self directed, open minded
Commits to deep reflection
Transparent in thinking
Values and engages in a culture of collegiality
Wonder is both a sense of awe and capacity for contemplation.
Wonderment begins with curiosity but then goes deeper beyond the surface to a place of possibility. A place we look for patterns and testing of ideas we had closed to our more reasonable mind.
Wonder is to leave aside our taken-for-granted assumptions, peel away our biases, and to willing explore aspects and angles we wouldn't have seen before.
• http://bit.ly/QSqfjI
•MCCSC on Today’s Meet
• Twitter around DIY PD
It also helps to ask yourself questions like:
1) Why am I planning to do this? 2) How will I initiate this change? 3) Who can I connect with online in my network that can help me? 4) How will I measure my progress? Or how will I know if I am learning?
In connectivism, learning involves
creating connections and developing a
network. It is a theory for the digital age
drawing upon chaos, emergent properties,
and self organized learning.
responsiveresponsive
personalized
“Twitter and blogs ... contribute an entirely new dimension of what it means to be a part of a tribe. The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.”
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“A tribe needs a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
“ Do you know what who you know knows?” H. Rheingold
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
1. Local community: Purposeful, face-to-face connections among members of a committed group—a professional learning community (PLC)
2. Global network: Individually chosen, online connections with a diverse collection of people and resources from around the world—a personal learning network (PLN)
3. Bounded community: A committed, collective, and often global group of individuals who have overlapping interests and recognize a need for connections that go deeper than the personal learning network or the professional learning community can provide—a community of practice or inquiry (CoP)
• THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR
Professional Learning Communities
Personal Learning Networks
Communities of Practice
Method Often organized for teachers
Do-it-yourself Educators organize it themselves
Purpose To collaborate in subject area or grade leverl teams around tasks
For individuals to gather info for personal knowledge construction and to bring back info to the community
Collective knowledge building around shared interests and goals.
Structure Team/groupF2f
Individual, face to face, and online
Collective, face to face, or online
Focus Student achievement
Personal growth Systemic improvement
Community and Networks are the New Professional Development
Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1999a) describe three ways of knowing and constructing knowledge…
Knowledge for Practice is often reflected in traditional PD efforts when a trainer shares information produced by researchers. This knowledge presumes a commonly accepted degree of correctness about what is being shared. The learner is typically passive in this kind of "sit and get" experience. This kind of knowledge is difficult to transfer to local context without support and follow through. After a workshop, much of what was useful gets lost in the daily grind, pressures and isolation of doing the work.
Knowledge in Practice recognizes the importance of experience and practical knowledge in improving practice. As you test out new strategies and assimilates them into your routines you construct knowledge in practice. You learn by doing. This knowledge is strengthened when teams reflect and share with one another lessons learned during application and describe the tacit knowledge embedded in their experiences.
Community and Networks are the new Professional Development
Knowledge of Practice believes that systematic inquiry where learners create knowledge as they focus on raising questions about and systematically studying their own practices collaboratively, allows participants to construct knowledge of practice in ways that move beyond the basics of work routines to a more systemic view of practice.
I believe that by attending to the development of knowledge for, in and of practice, we can enhance professional growth that leads to real change.
Cochran-Smith, M., & Lytle, S.L. (1999a). Relationships of knowledge and practice: Teaching learning in communities. Review of Research in Education, 24, 249-305.
Passive, active, and reflective knowledge building in local (PLC), global (CoP) and contextual (PLN) learning spaces.
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Community is built through the co-construction of knowledge
Be collaborative. Own it. Share with others. invest in personal knowledge building so what you share with others will be of value.
The power of connections leads to collective efficacy, collective wisdom and long standing collective intelligence
Connected learners talk to strangers. We do not have to know the people with whom we are co-learning, co-constructing, co-creating.
Innovation comes from wildly diverse experiences and loose connections
Action research groups: Do active, collaborative research focused on improvement around a possibility or problem in a classroom, school, district, or state.
Book study groups: Collaboratively read and discuss a book in an online space.
Case studies: Analyze in detail specific situations and their relationship to current thinking and pedagogy. Write, discuss, and reflect on cases using a 21st century lens to produce collaborative reflection and improve practice.
Connected coaching: Assign a connected coach to individuals on teams who will discuss and share teaching practices in order to promote collegiality and help educators think about how the new literacies inform current teaching practices.
Critical friends: Form a professional learning team who come together voluntarily at least once a month. Have members commit to improving their practice through collaborative learning. Use protocols to examine each other’s teaching or leadership activities and share both warm and cool feedback in respectful ways.
Curriculum review or mapping groups: Meet regularly in teams to review what team members are teaching, to reflect together on the impact of assumptions that underlie the curriculum, and to make collaborative decisions. Teams often study lesson plans together.
Instructional rounds: Adopt a process through which educators develop a shared practice of observing each other, analyzing learning and teaching from a research perspective, and sharing expertise.
"Imagine an organization with an employee who can accurately see the truth, understand the situation, and understand the potential outcomes of various decisions. And now imagine that this person is able to make something happen." ~ Seth Godin.
Real Question is this:Are we willing to change- to risk change- to meet the needs of the precious folks we serve?
Can you accept that Change (with a “big” C) is sometimes a messy process and that learning new things together is going to require some tolerance for ambiguity.
Change is hard
Connected learners are more effective change agents
We have a choice: A choice to be powerful or pitiful. A choice to allow ourselves to become victims of all that is wrong in education or activists. Activists who set their own course. Who resist the urge to quit prematurely. DIY change agents who choose to be powerful learners on behalf of the children they serve.
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