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Living and Learning in a Global CommunityInnovative Schools Virtual University
How will education be different tomorrow because of our meeting today?
How will you contextualize and mobilize what you learn?
How will you leverage, how will you enable your faculty to leverage- collective intelligence?
“Direction-not intention-determines our destination.”
Andy Stanley
Are your daily choices as a 21st Century Administrator taking you and your school in the direction you want to go?
Principle of the Path
Community is the New Professional Development
Cochran-Smith and Lytle (1999a) describe three ways of knowing and constructing knowledge that align closely with PLP's philosophy and are worth mentioning here.
Knowledge for Practice is often reflected in traditional PD efforts when a trainer shares with teachers information produced by educational researchers. This knowledge presumes a commonly accepted degree of correctness about what is being shared. The learner is typically passive in this kind of "sit and get" experience. This kind of knowledge is difficult for teachers to transfer to classrooms without support and follow through. After a workshop, much of what was useful gets lost in the daily grind, pressures and isolation of teaching.
Knowledge in Practice recognizes the importance of teacher experience and practical knowledge in improving classroom practice. As a teacher tests out new strategies and assimilates them into teaching routines they construct knowledge in practice. They learn by doing. This knowledge is strengthened when teachers reflect and share with one another lessons learned during specific teaching sessions and describe the tacit knowledge embedded in their experiences.
Community is the New Professional Development
Knowledge of Practice believes that systematic inquiry where teachers create knowledge as they focus on raising questions about and systematically studying their own classroom teaching practices collaboratively, allows educators to construct knowledge of practice in ways that move beyond the basics of classroom practice to a more systemic view of learning.
I believe that by attending to the development of knowledge for, in and of practice, we can enhance professional growth that leads to real change.
Cochran-Smith, M., & Lytle, S.L. (1999a). Relationships of knowledge and practice: Teaching learning in communities. Review of Research in Education, 24, 249-305.
Knowledge of Practice always begins with deeply, reflective community of practice.
Define Community
Define Networks
A Definition of Community
Communities are quite simply, collections of individuals who are bound together by natural will and a set of shared ideas and ideals.
“A system in which people can enter into relations that are determined by problems or shared ambitions rather than by rules or structure.”
(Heckscher, 1994, p. 24).
The process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations. (Wikipedia)
A Definition of Networks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Networks are created through publishing and sharing ideas and connecting with others who share passions around those ideas who learn from each other.
Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another's learning.
Connectivism (theory of learning in networks) is the use of a network with nodes and connections as a central metaphor for learning. In this metaphor, a node is anything that can be connected to another node: information, data, feelings, images. Learning is the process of creating connections and developing a network.
PD of the 21st Century will be—
teacher directed through:Connections (PLNs, PLCs & CoP)
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WHAT IS A PLC?WHAT IS A PLC?
The Power of ProfessionalLearning Communities
The most promising strategy for
sustained, substantive school
improvement is building the capacity
of school personnel to function as a
professional learning community.
The path to change in the classroom
lies within and through professional
learning communities.
Milbrey McLaughlin Professor of Education - Stanford University
Need for a Collaborative Culture
Throughout our ten-year study,
whenever we found an effective
school or an effective department
within a school, without exception
that school or department has
been a part of a collaborative
professional learning community.
Milbrey McLaughlin
Need for a Collaborative Culture
If schools want to enhance their
capacity to boost student learning,
they should work on building a
collaborative culture…When groups,
rather than individuals, are seen as
the main units for implementing
curriculum, instruction, and
assessment, they facilitate
development of shared purposes for
student learning and collective
responsibility to achieve it.
Fred Newman
The driving engine of the collaborative culture of a PLC is the team. They work together in an ongoing effort to discover best practices and to expand their professional expertise.
PLCs are our best hope for reculturing schools. We want to focus on shifting from a culture of teacher isolation to a culture of deep and meaningful collaboration.
Professional Learning Communities
FOCUS: Local , F2F, Job-embedded- in Real Time
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf
Communities
Building capacity in both individuals and groups
Self efficacy and collective efficacy
Global citizenship within a local context
Communities of Practice
FOCUS: Situated, Synchronous, Asynchronous- Online and Walled Garden
“Some online communities emerge out of nowhere, are totally unplanned and blossom. But these are the minority. There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that careful planning is essential to the success of an online community”
(Australian Flexible Learning Framework, What are the characteristics of effective online learning communities? pg 7, 2003)
Personal Learning Networks
FOCUS: Individual, Connecting to Learning Objects, Resources and People – Social Network Driven
Rethinking Leading and Learning
1. Relationships first & capacity building
2. Understand shift , movement and nature of change itself
3.Power of mobilized collaboration and communication
4. Community and social fabric
5. Teacher as action researcher
6. Transparency, transparency, transparency
Bus- Stop Please share your ideas re Social Presence
What do you see as the purpose of a global online community?
How will you create a culture where collaboration is valued? How will we promote collaboration online?
Please share your ideas related to: Teaching Presence
Who should be responsible for facilitating/moderating this environment?
What roles should an online community have to support learning?
Please share your ideas re Cognitive Presence
What content will you include in your online community?
participants adding their ideas to the three stops: Social, Cognitive and
Teaching Presence in NING