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Open to possibility:Networked learning with our
students
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Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin
#TACCLE2 Conference17th October 2014
@catherinecronin#taccle2
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Schools are places where people learn to ‘do democracy’.
Keri Facer (2011)
“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”
– Joi Ito @joi
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democratic conversations
voice dissonance networks
democratic conversations
voice dissonance networks
The voices of children have been missing from the whole discussion.
Jonathan Kozol (1992)Savage Inequalities
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soundpresence
participationpower
agency
Youth Media Team @YMTfm
The ways in which new technologies are used in school to silence or empower, to control or to engage, has the potential to… shape student expectations about how democratic practice and civic engagement should play out in the socio-technical spaces of the 21st century.
Keri Facer (2011) Learning Futures
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democratic conversations
voice dissonance networks
Social Networks
InternetMobile
Networked Individualism
2005 2013
Source: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 2005-2013
There is a divide between formal and informal learning.
Students navigate the dissonance between these – with or without our support.
Seamus Heaney Lightenings viii - video by Eoghan Kidney
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democratic conversations
voice dissonance networks
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Networked Teacher
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
NetworkedEducators
NetworkedStudents
Physical Spaces
Bounded Online Spaces
Open Online Spaces
We proposed the idea of a Third Space where teacher and student scripts – the formal and informal, the official and unofficial spaces of the learning environment – intersect, creating the potential for authentic interaction and a shift in the social organization of learning and what counts as knowledge.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Kris Gutiérrez (2008)
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People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit...
I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities .
Gutiérrez (2008)
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Open practices give us and our students opportunities to cross boundaries of geography, culture, institution, term, education sector, community, and/or power level…
Individuals, students and educators, can be nodes in a network.
Groups and learning communities also can be nodes, e.g. via #hashtags.
democratic conversations
voice dissonance networks
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Third level: #ct231 @CT231
Third level: #ct231 @CT231
Third level: #ct231 @CT231
http://www.scoop.it/t/ct231-student-
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Third level: #ct231 @CT231
#icollab TAGSExplorerthanks to @mhawksey
I learned a lot more about writing to the public. Before this I would have been less likely to express my views to a group of people online whereas now I would not have a problem in doing so.
By posting publicly it opened up our world to other academics or people who are just interested in the topic... I don’t think anyone would have thought that the author of one of the works we were researching would get involved.
#studentvoice
Openness...
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Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter mainly just for keeping in contact with people, but since have discovered they both have much more to offer.
They are places to discover new information and boost your knowledge. That both education and socialising can be rolled into one.
#studentvoice
Social networks...
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PRIMARY@msokeeffesclass
SECONDARY#CCCmedia
THIRD LEVEL@CT231 #ct231
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Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie
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Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie
Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie
www.chalfontmediablog.blogspot.co.uk
http://storify.com/jamesmichie/friendship-the-digital-self-and-instant-gratificat/elements/50a6426e0e4c64ad6b1da246
Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie
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Primary school: @msokeefesclass
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HE – primary school collaboration@msokeeffesclass
Primary school: @msokeefesclass
“I learned how to learn.”
- student (age 11)
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Youth Media Team @ymtFM
Coder Dojo @coderdojo
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#1 Foster student voices
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#2 Connect formal & informal.
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#3 Network as learning communities.
#4 Build democratic conversations.
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Transforming education in such a way is a scary proposition. It won’t be quick, it won’t be easy, and it may not be immediately successful. However, the current model is even more frightening than this kind of change. We can’t continue to let the gap between school and life grow ever wider and crush students’ desire to learn. I hope that you join me in this fight for fundamental redesign of school.
Nicholas J.2nd year secondary student
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“We have to build our half of the bridge…” Colum McCann
Thank you!Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin
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