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The Reform Symposium Conference is but one of a myriad of events taking place almost constantly now where teachers have opportunities for meeting in online spaces and sharing information and expertise with one another. The MOOC concept, whether xMOOC or cMOOC, provides steady often overlapping opportunities for deeper, more prolonged engagement not only with niche topics, but more importantly with others interested in those niches. Google Hangouts on Air now make it possible for anyone to simulcast an event, and many do, extending invitations to colleagues in a mushroom field of communities. It seems there is something of this nature going on every minute, and social media is working virally to spread the word among educators. Stepping back to a wider perspective on this phenomenon, what is going on every minute is networked, connectivist learning. Open education, driven by learners connecting with other learners, is taking place around the clock, around the globe, in countless free spaces, bound only by the amount of time participants can make to engage and absorb the knowledge inherent in their networks. The possibilities this unleashes are only starting to be realized by the brick and mortar establishment. Not that we should quit our daytime jobs any time soon, but we should certainly rethink them. This presentation will draw on present circumstances to inform how we might rethink our role as educators, or perhaps more importantly, encourage others to follow our example. The presenter has been involved in coordinating two virtual communities that have been interacting and learning from one another daily for the past decade. This presentation will show through representative examples how participants in these networks acquire the tools for re-thinking how they engage their students. Networked learning is ineffable in that it must be experienced to be understood, and those without that experience have difficulty grasping a full range of its affordances. As the behavior of participants in online networked learning changes, so their teaching styles change, and the better they are able to model for their students characteristics of what they find most effectively leads to their learning what they want to know in an increasingly interconnected world.
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From teacher networked learning to transformation in your classroom
Vance StevensReform Symposium 4
http://reformsymposium.comOct 13, 2013
If you follow this presentation at http://slideshare.net/vances
All the hyperlinks will work
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Once upon a time (a digital story)
Sean Wilden yesterday at http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/318-121013-special-event-using-technology-in-teaching-principles-in-practice.html
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Isolation can be dangerous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Urj27gqIQ
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Welcome to the Read-Write Century
http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/ReadOnlyhttp://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2322
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We can see an end to isolation for educators
http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4156
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Now more than ever
http://www.futureofeducation.com/page/plenarysugatamitra
but teachers must be beamed as master learners
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Richardson’s 6 ways to relearn• Share everything (or at least
something)• Discover, don’t deliver, the curriculum• Talk to strangers (filter and interact
with others in your personal learning network)
• Be a master learner• Do real work, for real audiences• Transfer the power (over who drives
curriculum)
How to do these things is ineffable(must be experienced)
From Slide 5 here:http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether-to-develop-personal-learning-networks-to-model-collaborative-learning-for-teachers-to-use-with-students
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What about isolation for students?c.1995-6 Dave Winet offered classes for students to learn English
http://study.com
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Why do people want to study online?
• Teachers instinctively prepared syllabuses
http://www.internettime.com/Learning/The%20Other%2080%25.htm
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Not to ‘work’ but to socialize• Students
rejected the ‘work’ but in 1997-1998 were attracted like moths to flame tohttp://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/webheads.htm
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For example …
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/yaodong.htm
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About Yaodong in TESL-EJ, 2003
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume6/ej23/ej23int/
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Yaodong keeps connecting, 2008
http://www.storyofmylife.com/User/user_story_view.aspx?storyId=2688&ChapterId=3952&UserId=3512
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Urj27gqIQ
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Yaodong connecting Webheads 2001
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/chat2001/wfw011031.htm
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Sue visited Houston in 2002
http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/sue_houston.htm
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How do we figure out how to structure learning to meet social expectations?
• In Writing for Webheadswe learned from the students who interacted with us – how to construct communities that would promote language learning – through greater opportunities to socialize in spaces where the target
language was used throughout
• In Webheads in Actionwe teach one another experientially, so that we– learn by trying out online community building techniques– in spaces where technology is being used online to promote greater
awareness of how it might facilitate language learning
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Webheads in Actionhttp://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads_evo.htm
http://callcolloq-tesol09.wikispaces.com/18.+The+Future+-+Res
earch+&+Practice
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Webheads: Community
Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/
From Slide 30 at http://www.slideshare.net/vances/modeling-social-media-in-groups-communities-and-networks-socialnetworking-2009-online-conference
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WiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way, 2007
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way
From Slide 3 at http://www.slideshare.net/vances/modeling-social-media-in-groups-communities-and-networks-socialnetworking-2009-online-conference
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Model, demonstrate, practice, reflect
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Where did I get this?
I was only able to relocate this image for RSCON4 because I shared it on Facebook
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What would it look like?
If you wanted to model effective connected learning to socially-oriented peers online? Maybe like this?
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Staff Room in the Cloud
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Staff Room in the Cloud
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Connectivism
In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be
"Have you ever thought about how completely irrelevant
structured learning is?"
Siemens, G. (2004-5). Connectivism: A Learning theory for the digital age. Elearnspace. Retrieved August 17, 2011 from http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Siemens’s conclusions can be startling
From slide 8 here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/how-mooc-learning-reaches-students-through-tpd
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It’s ineffable
• To understand how connected learning works, we must experience online learning2gether
• Connected learning works well when teachers are self selected, already in the choir, as are RSCON participants
• The problem is when we go beyond to others who have not experienced connected learning as we have
• Fortunately, there are now burgeoning opportunities for teachers to avoid isolation
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What’s happening just this weekend?Jeff Lebow is streaming hangouts from KOTESOL
http://koreabridge.net/kotesolicstudio3.html
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SCoPE just wrapped up
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Moodle MOOC 2
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1411164-moodle-mooc-2-on-wiziq
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#eltchat
https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.AC3D28B09030E834760F4D57961C11
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TESOL CALL-IS / IATEFL LTSIG
http://ltsig.org.uk/events/13-future-events/318-121013-special-event-using-technology-in-teaching-principles-in-practice.html
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EVO Electronic Village Online
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/
January and February each year
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Connected Educator Month
http://connectededucators.org/
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Oh, and I almost forgot …
http://www.futureofeducation.com/page/2013-reform-symposium
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Here a MOOC there a MOOC• http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/62555597/moremoocs• Http://www.connectivistmoocs.org/
From Karen Head: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/here-a-mooc-there-a-mooc-but-will-it-work-for-freshman-composition/41883
Stephen Downes’s definitive archive of knowledge on MOOCs (currently over 500 annotated references):http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm.
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You can see what’s on, attend or share with us at Learning2gether
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded
http://learning2gether.net/about/
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Saving the most important to the end The Students!
• Our mindsets must change so that students can be inculcated in the same way we are learning to learn
• Students are already learning to connect (in their way!) e.g. – LA unified school district problem– Tom Woods in Australia
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Tom Wood 2007
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Teenager-cracks-govts-84m-porn-filter/2007/08/25/1187462562907.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/schoolboy-whiz-helps-draft-labor-cyber-policy/2007/11/21/1195321833867.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-penalty-for-bypassing-conroys-web-filter/story-e6frfro0-1225854496213
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We have to meet them where they want to be
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/26/did-the-los-angeles-school-system-really-not-see-this-coming-when-they-handed-out-free-ipads-to-high-schoolers/
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/los-angeles-students-ipads-classroom-play-video-games-173850244.html
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Alan November on Global Voice“Can you imagine giving every kid a laptop and not changing the audience? But changing the device? How do you reconcile that?”
http://edtechcrew.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EG_iwLrVw
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David Warlick on networking being the boundary of the digital divide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTrMBmDK7Os
Dave Warlick's K-12 Online Conference keynote: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=144
We want our children to be the students we want to teachrather than teaching the children who they areand this is an insult to our children
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Students learn best when they are where they want to be
Chuck Sandy talked about Design for Change http://www.dfcworld.com/
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=2008350&suid=D.EED9A632C04487C03B9BF5F1E94B0A
What’s with the MOOCs? How MOOC Learning Reaches Students through
TPD
Vance StevensHigher Colleges of Technology, UAE
AAMC / PACE / KBZACTitle slide from: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/how-mooc-learning-reaches-students-through-tpd
Stevens, V. (2013). What's with the MOOCs? TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej64/int.pdf Also available at: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej64/ej64int/
Thinking SMALL: Training Teachers in Web2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning EFL
Vance Stevens, UAE: HCT / PACE
eLearning in Action Conference
April 2, 2013HCT Sharjah Women’s College
TESOL in Dallas, Texas, March 22, 2013
CALL-IS & Elementary Education InterSection SessionNew Tools/Techniques in CALL
Updated April 7, 2013
Title slide from: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/training-teachers-in-web2
RSCON4Vance Stevens
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com
All materials presented here available at the blog URL above and at
http://slideshare.net/vanceshttp://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/from-teacher-networked-learning-to-transformation-in-your
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Some articles about Webheads• Yilmaz, B, and Stevens, V. (2012). Webheads in Action: A community of practice scaffolding multiliteracies skills in teacher professional development. Writing &
Pedagogy 4,1:135–146.
• Stevens, Vance. (2010). Webheads and Distributed Communities of Practice. Global Neighbors: Newsletter of TESOL's English as a Foreign Language Interest Section, EFLIS News March 2010 Volume 9 Number 1:http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/sec_issue.asp?nid=2994&iid=13069&sid=1
• Stevens, Vance. (2007). Webheads as agents of change in overlapping clouds of distributed learning networks. APACALL Newsletter 11, pp. 3-8. Retrieved December 18, 2007 from: http://www.apacall.org/news/Newsletter11.pdf.
• Stevens, V. (2004). Webheads communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development. In Leaver, B. and Willis, J. (Eds.). Task-based instruction in foreign language education: Practices and programes. Georgetown University Press. pp. 204-217. – There is a full text of a late draft of my article here, though references are not included: http://vancestevens.com/papers/webheads/taskbase_ch10june192003.htm – An earlier version has the references, and also images that were intended to illustrate the article: http://vancestevens.com/papers/webheads/taskbase_full.htm– Here is a Commentary: from the Linguis list, May 2005. AUTHORS: Leaver, Betty Lou; Willis, Jane R. TITLE: Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education SUBTITLE:
Practices and Programs PUBLISHER: Georgetown University Press YEAR: 2004 "CHAPTER TEN: Webhead communities: Writing tasks interleaved with synchronous online communication and web page development (Vance Stevens) Another instance of virtual classroom implementing writing tasks is described in this chapter. The author reports activities of groups of learners and teachers involved in online writing practices. The writing tasks were aimed at purposeful interaction and technology was a vehicle of implementing pedagogical principles not the driving force. The author's initiative for conducting an online writing and grammar course is reported to have been the starting point of this community of online writers called Webheads. The group interactions involved various topics including projects on which teachers interacted and themes and tasks of interest to learners. Cost, ease of use, multicasting capability, and cross platform adaptability were the criteria in selecting the tools for computer mediated communication. Email groups, web pages, and synchronous chat were the major modalities of interaction and implementation of tasks. After a brief discussion on evaluation and in the conclusion section the author mentions lowering affective obstacles and promoting a sense of community as the main message from the project and recommends that the model be applied in other situations. In an appendix some technology related issues are dealt with.
• Stevens, V. and Altun, A. (2002). The Webheads community of language learners online. In Syed, Z. (Ed.). The process of language learning: An EFL perspective. Abu Dhabi: The Military Language Institute. pp. 285-318. 2001mli_stevens-altun2mb.pdf. There is a pre-publication version of this paper at http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/t2t2001/proceeds.htm
• Stevens, Vance. 1999. Writing for Webheads: An online writing course utilizing synchronous chat and student web pages. A paper submitted for the 4th Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference: Best Practices In Delivering, Supporting & Managing Online Learning, April 7-9, 1999 - http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/hawaii99.htm