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