BREAKING DOWN CLASSROOM WALLS

@ V E R E N A N Z

Open Learning k12

FLOW – of discussion

Introduction

Who Am I?

Current Educational

Context

Current

Models

Blooms Taxonomy

Connected Learning

Global Achievement Gap

Opportunities

Open:

Leadership

OER

Learning

Connect-

Collaborate-

Create

A) open online courses

B) open online webinars

C) open online conferences

W Who has participated in:

elcome! Question #1

A) blogs

B) wikis

C) RSS feeds

D) online courses

E) other open online content options?

Who has created:

Question #2

• k-6

• Middle school/Jr.High

• High School

• Higher Education

• Other

What age level do you work with

in Education? with in Education?

• Staff

• Community of Practice

• Administrators

• Students

• Parents

• Others?

What audience are you looking to

create an "open" environment for?

Takeaways….WHAT is Open Learning?

Open Learning wiki:

http://openlearningk12.wikispaces.

com

GoogleDoc: http://bit.ly/R7BM3k

My Story

Mom, Teacher and Open Learner

How Did I Get Here?

From: http://victoriadee.blogspot.

ca/2010/01/monday-

meditation-voice-by-

shel.html

Rather than thinking of

public education as a

burden that schools must

shoulder on their own, what

would it mean to think of

public education as a

responsibility of a more

distributed network of

people and institutions...

This public education

….should include those that

are relevant and accessible

to kids now, where they can

find role models, recognition,

friends, and collaborators

who are co participants in the

journey of growing up in a

digital age.

Mimi Ito, 2010

1907 Classroom 60’s Classroom

Classrooms of the Past?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/

4100754477/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/keenepubliclibrary/5

448178933/

Classroom in 2012 – US Election Images

http://edudemic.com/2012/11/8-ways-education-

could-change-during-the-next-4-years/

http://teams-

tutoringinschools.wikispaces.com/Tutoring+R

eading

H O W D O W E O P E N O U R C L A S S R O O M S T O T H E W O R L D ?

What does “Breaking Down” our Classroom Walls mean?

Open in Africa Open in North America

Let’s Consider what Open Classrooms look like:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisabroad/5737441972

/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/992169

584/in/photostream/

Let’s Bridge the Divide by Opening our Minds as we Open our

Classrooms

Are Open Classrooms Public Spaces?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/8027532130/lightbox/

Have you heard this before?

Integrating Technology Into Our Classeshat

ignited the idea even more...

Retrieved from: http://edudemic.com/wp-

content/uploads/2012/04/cartoon.jpg

What Matters:

http://venspired.com/?p=2804

7 Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

http://juliaec.wordprng-higher-cognitive-thinking-in-

primary-school-

classrooms/ess.com/2011/03/23/blooms-taxonomy-

encouragi http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/bloom

s_taxonomy.htm

http://morethanenglish.edublogs.org/for-teachers/blooms-revised-taxonomy/

Focus:

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.ca/2012/06/seven

-degrees-of-connectedness_06.html

1. Lurker

2. Novice

3. Insider

4. Colleague

5. Collaborator

6. Friend

7. Confidant

7 Degrees of Connectedness

Lurker

Novice

Insider Colleague

Collaborator

Friend

Confidant

7 Degrees of Connectedness

Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills

Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving

Collaboration Across Networks and Leading By

Influence

Agility and Adaptability

Initiative and Entrepreneurship

Accessing and Analyzing

Information

Effective oral and written

communication

Curiosity and imagination

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2008/08/2

0_wagner.php

Have you used it?

Have you edited it?

Have you created anything for it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.danpontefract.com/the-90-9-1-

collaboration-paradox-org%E2%80%99s-

should-aim-to-reverse-it/

Let’s move away from triangles and shift into high gear…..

http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-

apps.html

Open Classroom Model

Create Collaborate Connect

CONNECT

Social Media

Awareness

Blogs & Wikis

Awareness

Join Classroom 2.0, Online Community

Consider Free Online

PD

Lurker

COLLABORATE

Classroom Blog

Collaboration

Interact with Others in

Online Communities

Participate in Free Online

Courses

CREATE Be the change that you want to see…

Open Learning

OER

Open Leadership

Open Instruction

IN YOUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT?

OPEN LEADERSHIP?

OPEN RESOURCES?

OPEN COURSES?

Where can Open Learning create Opportunities….

WE NEED TO LEARN TOGETHER

Does Open Learning have a place in k12?

There is a gap between the students and teachers – we

have different skills….

We are all Learners – Together

Characteristics of Open Learning:

• Open Access • Collaboration • Open Platforms

• Social Media Integration • Transparent Communication

• Credit to Sources • Feedback Loop • Approachable

• Focus on learning for all (Interdisciplinary, Intergenerational,

International)

Open Leadership

Open Leaders

Stephanie Rivera

Student Teacher

George Couros

Principal

Silvia

Tolisano

IT Spec ialist

Laurie Renton

Primary Teacher

Dean Shareski

Professor

Shelley Wright

HS Teacher

@stephrrivera

@gcouros

@langwitches

@RentonL

@shareski

@wrightsroom

Characteristics of “Superior” Leaders

1) Mission 2) Vision 3) Goal 4) Competency 5) A strong team 6) Communication Skills 7) Interpersonal skills 8) A “can do, get it done” attitude 9) Inspiration 10) Ambition

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/204248

pi·o·neer (p-nîr)n.1. One who ventures into

unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

2. One who opens up new areas of thought,

research, or development: a pioneer in

aviation.

3. A soldier who performs construction and

demolition work in the field to facilitate troop

movements.

4. Ecology An animal or plant species that

establishes itself in a previously barren

environment.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pioneer

Retrieved with permission from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

Retrieved with permission from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

OPEN LEARNER

Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda By: Shel Silverstein

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shoudas Layin’ in the sun,

Talkin’bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done… But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas

All ran away and hid From one little did

-OER-

Open Educational Resources

FREE OPEN ONLINE!!!! For k12!

Creative Commons

The licensing you LOOK for when attributing course content AND what you consider when creating

course content

OER and CC

Open Content

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/open-collaborative-learning

• Reuse–copy verbatim

• Redistribute–share with others

• Revise–adapt and edit

• Remix–combine with others

• Constant opportunity to meet the needs of the learner

• http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/why-be-open

4 R’s of OER

Arguments for OER

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/open-collaborative-learning

Tapscott speaks to many key issues in Open Education –although he calls them – Four “Principles” of the Open World.

1) Collaboration

2) Transparency

3) Intellectual Property

4) Empowerment

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1492

Open Education – Don Taspscott

• Everyone there to learn together (no hierarchy)

• Teachers encouraged to connect with learners

• "Nodes" (Digital Learning areas) to interact and connect

with others outside of “regular” instruction

• Flipped Learning – Multimedia - UDL

• Content given in Digital Format

• Choice of Activities/Task – INQUIRY Based Learning

• Activities presented in open forum for feedback

• Competency Based Assessment/Badges/Dual Credit

• All activities presented using social media

Open Instruction and Pedagogy

Thinking About: Assessment

http://willrichardson.com/post/2

8626310240/the-

immeasurable-part-2

Created by: Jeremy Macdonald @MrMacnology

"Badge" System of Assessment - http://www.openbadges.org

Competency Based - http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/iNACOL_FailureNotOption-web.pdf

Possibility for “Dual Credit” System if in Alberta

Assessment Assessment:

Alberta: Framework for Student Learning

AB Framework for Student Learning

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision

Making

Creativity and Innovation

Social, Cultural, Global and Environmental

Responsibility

Communication

Digital and Technological Literacy

Lifelong Learning, Personal Management and Well-

being

Collaboration and Leadership

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Engaged Thinker

Ethical Citizen

LITERACY NUMERACY

Continuum of Open Learning k12

How to Become an Open Learner

Create Collaborate Connect

Reconsider the 7 Steps

1. Lurker

2. Novice

3. Insider

4. Colleague

5. Collaborator

6. Friend

7. Confidant

CONNECT:

1) Become a Connected Educator –Reread the 7 Stages of Connected Learning

2) Encourage your students to become, “Connected Learners” – Start learning with them

3) Learn about social media – get on twitter and follow people

4) Read other people’s blogs, start to create your own

5) Join an Online Community like Classroom 2.0

How to Become an Open Learner:

COLLABORATE:

1. Start to link posts and answer the people you follow on twitter. Create a Storify about your conversation and share it.

2. Reply to people’s blogs, twitter questions and in discussion posts in open educational communities

3. Think about your Digital Identity Online – and how to help and support others

4. Participate in open projects like Flat Classroom or collaborate with another class on skype or on a blog/Wiki

How to Become an Open Learner:

Open Courses

Online Course – Open to the world

Philosophy 12

Remix a Course, k12 style #DS106

MOOCs – k12 style #BeyondFacebook12

Open Projects

Global Classroom

wiki

2012-13

TheOC@ADLC

Open Interactions

Twitter Chats

Google Hangouts

Educators Day

Classroom2.0

Open Online

Webinars

How to Become an Open Learner:

CREATE

Starting Places:

Edmodo Solid Open Platforms:

Blogs and Wikis Consider:

Open LMS (Learning Management Systems)

Canvas, Coursesites, Google CourseMaker, P2PU

Open Online Options

Edmodo Edmodo

MightyBell MightyBell

Student 2.0 Ning – Create with Classroom 2.0 Resources

Wikispaces Wiki Based Open Online Course : #DigiFoot12

• I can create an environment where all

participants felt "included“in some way

• We all like to be the examples – the most time

each day faciltating “open leanring” is finding

the examples and linking them for others to

see…

What I have learned…..as an Open

Learnerearning....#1

Participants can be beginners to advanced - I could to scaffold

options for new learners while challenging my advanced

learners. Open Learning naturally offer personalized learning

options

Participant mentors were asked to volunteer to MODEL, to write

comments anytime they saw something unanswered, to help me

moderate Blackboard sessions, Twitter, Netvibes, Google.docs

and various other tools. I encouraged others to lead in order to

help make the course sustainable for me.

Verena's Learning #2

Student questions and teacher feedback seemed

"amplified" in an open online forum

I learned to accept that failure was possible, learn

from my mistakes and do my best.

Being authentic got me through and accepting that I

am a learner too!

VeVerena’s Learning #3Learning

#3

Collection of Learning Artifacts

• You will have a collection of resources based on a collaborative effort

• You will have developed leadership skills among your peers and ensured that

everyone is identified by their strengths

• You will have created the foundations for autonomous learning for all participants

which will offer them the opportunities outside of the school and/or district

What is the “take away” of open learning?will

you end with?

George got stung by a bee and said,

“ I wouldn’t have got stung if I’d stayed in bed.”

Fred got stung and we heard him roar,

“What am I being punished for?”

Lew got stung and we heard him say,

“I learned somethin’ about bees today.”

Three Stings – Shel Silverstein

What can we do to offer open learning

opportunities to everyone?

Questions?

Learning Innovation Lead Teacher, ADLC

vroberts@adlc.ca

Blog: www.openclassroomonline.com

Twitter: @verenanz

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