The blissful survival rucksack for engaged online learning

Nancy WhiteAka hoping not to be a “disappointed optimist”

in the endhttp://www.fullcirc.com

@NancyWhite

With a deep bow of appreciation to Keith McCandless and Henri

Lipmanowicz who led me up the mountain…

The blissful survival

rucksack for engaged online learningNancy White

Aka hoping not to be a “disappointed optimist” in the endhttp://www.fullcirc.com

@NancyWhite

I remember reading once that the late comedian George Carlin used to hate it whenever anyone

labeled him a cynic; whenever anyone did, he would correct them by referring to himself as a

disappointed idealist. The distinction was important to him, and I get it. To be an idealist is to hold tight

to the belief that regardless of how jaded an environment has become, there is still a place and maybe a reward for someone who chooses to plat

to a different standard.

Youngme Moon Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd /pg. 226

Intention

http://www.occupytogether.org/downloadable-posters/

(Content King? Bah!)

ENGAGE ME FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!

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11-22-44-AllAllRemember a teaching and/or learning time when you were feeling when you were blissfully ENGAGED! That magic moment. What was happening? What was the story?

•1 minute quiet reflection (@Cogdog & @BGBlogging twist… object experiment)•2 minutes in pairs•(maybe) 4 minutes in sets of 4•Quick debrief

Let’s harvest…

What, so what, now what?

Together, Look Back on Progress-To-Date and Decide What Adjustments Are Needed

http://www.liberatingstructures.com/9-what-so-what-now-what-w/

How we shape our mental maps (from Senge, 1994, adapted by Ian Metcalf)http://dev.change-management-toolbook.com/mod/book/print.php?id=74&chapterid=32

What makes the magic? What’s in our teaching & learning journey rucksacks that creates magic?

1. You, me, US

#socialartist

“…knowing how to use who you are as a vehicle for opening spaces for learning. It’s about being able to use who I am to take my community to a new level of learning and performance…space for becoming learning citizens“ – Etienne Wenger

". . . the art of enhancing human capacities in the light of social complexity. It seeks to bring new ways

of thinking, being and doing to social challenges in the world.…Social Artists are leaders in many fields who bring the same order of passion and skill that

an artist brings to his or her art form, to the canvas of our social reality. - Jean Houston

2. What we do

A repertoire to help us…1. BE together (social learning)2. Engage WITH each other3. Unleash everyone

…noticing & connectingJune Holley

Network Weaving:

http://www.networkweaver.com/

Closing Triangles

Dave GrayGamestormingConnected Company

http://app.looplogic.com/davegray/empathy-map-exercise

Dave Gray

And I’m glad I have friends like Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz

Liberating Structures…including and unleashing

everyonehttp://www.liberatingstructures.com

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McCandless and Lipmanowicz

Hey Nancy, how does this apply to teaching and learning?

McCandless and Lipmanowicz

What do you What do you recognize here recognize here

from your work? from your work?

McCandless and Lipmanowicz

Name That Structure Game

1.Go find a partner from another table2.Together pick three LS structure cards from a deck3.Make up the process they represent4.Identify how you could use them online for teaching and learning5.Share your ideas with another pair

Best idea you heard for Best idea you heard for doing this doing this online?online?

"If our approach to teaching and teaching and learning onlinelearning online was totally obliterated last night, what parts would you re-establish this morning?"

"What new functions or attributes would you add?"

What’s in (y)our BLISSFUL rucksacks?

15% Solution

“Where is your 15%?” Where do you have discretion and

freedom to act?”

"Every time we gather becomes a model of the future we want to create" (Block, 2008). Your question Sylvia took me back to this quote - and left me wondering about how the exchanges, gatherings, convenings at the heart of social learning spaces - really are representative of a future still in creation. It then becomes less about the online platform or the meeting room - but more about that "social artistry" that's required to intentionally scaffold social learning spaces that are representative of a preferred future…Block's quote takes me to a place of recognizing that each interview, each email of information, each tweet within a CoP can be seen as integral of the process of future creation. Jonny Morris via CPSquare

Change the Change the FIELD!FIELD!

Want to play together again tomorrow?

@NancyWhitehttp://www.fullcirc.com

Thank You!