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In 2002, I was proud and privileged to be involved as a consultant supporting a team from the National College for School Leadership establishing a ground-breaking project called "Networked Learning Communities". The idea - years before social media tools were properly developed or understood - was to enable and harness online communities of teachers to support distributed learning. It was a project that was years ahead of its time and went on to great things. Details of the thinking behind the programme and its successes can be found at http://innovationunit.org/sites/default/files/From%20professional%20learning%20community%20to%20networked%20learning%20community.pdf and http://networkedlearning.ncsl.org.uk/collections/network-research-series/reports/how-networked-learning-communities-work.pdf The inspirational leader of the programme - David Jackson - can these days be found at the Innovation Unit at http://www.innovationunit.org In the meantime, this presentation - which I created to enthuse early participants in the programme during a get together at the Belfry in October 2002 - captures some of the early energy and passion created by the programme.
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“The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high and we miss it…
…but that it is too low and we reach it…”
Michelangelo
“Our best success so far is…”
“…the people!…”
“…the interest we’ve created!…”
“Everybody is with us, focused,on track and enthusiastic…”
“…Buzz! – new, innovative, empowering, considerable degree of autonomy and flexibility…”
“It’s been an open book – refreshing and exciting to have no expected outputs…”
“It’s such fun seeing a young teacher supported into a leadership role…”
“Our best success so far is…”
“…the people!…”
“…the interest we’ve created!…”
“the Government supporting the opening of thegates and giving education back to us…”
“…the experience so far has left us energised,refreshed and privileged…”
“Children can be leaders – no surprise, really, but the potential there is phenomenal…”
“co-leaders are the driving force and this ensures the focus remains on learning and leadership”
“But we worry that…”
“I’m dazed and confused – overwhelmed, excited, frightened.…”
“…Ours is a new network, so working practices were not already established…”
“being a co-leader is like being on the edge of a precipice – exhilarating and frightening”
“We don’t want this one, after the initial ‘rush’ to fade away to nothing…”
“Conscious of being a clique, but being conscious is part of the solution.…”
“we have to ensure all of the staff actually want to be there…”
The NCSL Co-leaderssupports
The NCSL Co-leaderssupportssupport people in networks
people in networkssupport LEARNING!
41 NLCs in September
Further 39 NLCs in January
Connecting the whole country
Berwick to Penwith – 549 miles – over a day to drive
3 NLCs in Dudley – 20 miles round trip – 55 mins to drive
Lancaster to Bexhill – 319 miles – over 5 hours to drive
Ealing to Hounslow – 3 miles – 17 mins to drive
We and you are a project that is of its time…
We will use technology to help you where it can help, but we do not see ourselves as a technology project
You are rooted in communities with high degrees of social
capital and trustWe are looking to use video, narrative and oral capture as a key part of our knowledge
exchange process
You are the emerging new public sector
You are leading the world…
No knowledge project of this scale is at this level of mature understanding
No knowledge project has such ensured activity from a distributed group for whom ‘knowledge’ has always been central to their profession
There will be huge interest and goodwill amongst the global community for this
initiative – we can harness that!
Many projects have detailed plans, but no vision. This project has a vision that has already
enthused people all over the country…
Over to you! Safe journey home…
