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Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks
Vance StevensPetroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prepared for the TESOL Arabia conference March 12, 2010 Zayad University, Dubai
These slides posted at http://slideshare.net/vancesPresentation recording: http://tinyurl.com/100312vance-dubai
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Where to begin?From Stephen Downes, Learning the Web 2.0 Way
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-wayVance Stevens - TESOL Arabia 2010
And … to TEACH is to LEARN - Vance
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Knowledge
Attribution: http://www.kelvybird.com/facilitation/scribing/workingknowledge.html
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How did you learn aboutCreative Commons?
http://creativecommons.org/
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Heard it through the grapevine?
http://delicious.com/vancestevens/art
Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonastherkildsen/122881874/
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How did you LEARN how tofind Creative Commons Images?
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One State of Knowledge
http://www.wblut.com/constructs/cyclic/
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Paradigm Shifts in Education
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10 Aspects of Paradigm Shift• Pedagogy:
Didactic --> constructivist• Modeling:
Do as I say --> AND as I do• Transfer:
Technology enjoyed at leisure is F.U.N. --> also, applied to professional practice
• Trepidation:Will they find out? --> ok to say “I don’t know!”
• Literacy: Print literacy --> multiliteracies
• Heuristics: Client server --> peer to peer
• Sharing: Copyrighted --> creative commons
• Classification: Taxonomies --> folksonomies
• Directionality:Push --> pull
• Ownership:Proprietary --> open source
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Paradigm Shifts in Wordle.net
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Can’t get enough Wordle.net
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Configurations for sharing and dissemination of knowledge
• Groups• Communities• Communities of practice• Connectivist perspectives
– Personal learning networks– Distributed learning networks– Rhyzomic learning
Attribution: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/
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Configurations
• Groups
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Configurations
• Groups• Communities
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Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice– Domain– Practice– Community
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Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice• Networks
can include overlappingcommunities
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Configurations
• Groups• Communities• Communities of
practice• Networks
and sampleConnections
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• Webheads started as EFL class in 1998• WiA formed as result of 2002 EVO sesson• Educators who engage in
– Helping each other pursue lifelong, just-in-time, informal learning
– Through experimentation in use of social-media and computer mediated communications tools
– Webheads in Action Online ConvergenceWiAOC 2005, 2007, 2009 http://wiaoc.org
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Webheads: Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/
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Webheads: Community
Attribution: http://flickr.com/photos/94794165@N00/410359410/
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Webheads: Community of Practice
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Personal Learning Networks
Scott Leslie's PLE (above) and more PLE diagrams: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
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Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
• Downes on distributed learning networks– Knowing ( where’s Waldo?)
Once you know, you can’t not know
– Knowledge exists throughout nodes in a network
• Wenger notes (2002:6)– Increasing complexity of knowledge requires
greater … collaboration; whereas …– Half life of knowledge is getting shorter
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Characteristics of CoPs
• They promote knowledge of a domain
• They revolve around a practice
• Community aspects– They form spontaneously, voluntarily– They have particularly defined community
spaces in which they interact
Most frequently understood to be defined by Etienne Wenger; e.g.
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Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
Cormier - Rhizomatic Learning to deal with increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge
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Knowledge dissimenation through communities and networks
Siemens – Connectivism stresses importance of pipes over content
Attribution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_-_Piping.jpg
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Siemens – Connectivism – dealing with explosion of available info
http://www.wiziq.com/TutorSession/Session.aspx?JuX%2bgH%2b2GbYuXrqZqj1F3uIA%2fgrtIiAEcKQ3usZlk1VhT5GwwVHz6vferdj5MlOz5JOdRjZO8mc%3d
http://tinyurl.com/siemens-socialnet09
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Where do we get our models?
Our daily network interactions; e.g.Morning Tweets
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Nings
http://cck2009.ning.com/
http://multiliteracies.ning.com/video
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Webcasts, Podcasts
http://edtechtalk.com/live
http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/
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Edmodo
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Waves
Who are the early pouncers?
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Waves and Wikis
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Future of Learning in a Networked World
http://flnw.wikispaces.com/Brazil
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Implications for Teacher Professional Development
• Jack Richards plenary Denver TESOL 2009 (March 27)– About what teachers need to KNOW in order to
practice effectively– Research indicates that teachers tend to revert to
traditional methods rather than activate what they are exposed to in training curricula
• Derick Wenmouth (also from NZ) mentioned similar research findings at K-12 Online 2008 http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=181
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Problems• Teacher-trainers
– without sufficient experience with technology and
– rooted in old-school methodologies
– simply not modeling new age learning behaviors for trainees
Attribution: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8aagIQGZq-RyFMO1dFHHNg
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Problems• Students and staff
– love to learn but hate to be taught,
– resent top-down approach forced on them by managers sometimes out of touch with actual needs of students and staff
Attribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo&feature=player_embedded
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Solutions
• Allow, facilitate, encourage networking in meetings, conferences, classrooms
• Offer workshops/projects bottom up, as something that staff/students organize themselves
• Create atmosphere encouraging formation of communities of practice where staff/students interact with peers in other institutions
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Models for professional and student skills development
• Encourage teams to organize training sessions that utilize synchronous and non-synchronous social media tools. Call them something other than ‘training’ sessions
• Use Nings / Moodles / wikis / Google Wave / Jing / uTiPu / or other LMS/CMS to replace outmoded email attachment systems
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/06/speedlifing.html
• Hold un-conferences and other grass roots events such as• Bar camps• LAN parties• Speed-geeking• Speed Lifing
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How EVO models social Networking
• Almost all start with an email list, usually Yahoo Groups – http://yahoogroups.com
• Many have Nings – http://ning.com• Most use wikis; e.g. http://pbworks.com or
http://docs.google.com • Many use microblogging; e.g. http://twitter.com • Many socially bookmark URLs using
http://delicious.com or http://diigo.com • Most encourage reflective blogs; e.g.
http://blogger.com
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Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
• Social networks: Ning, TappedIn, EVO, WiAOC
• Social bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo
• Groups: YahooGroups and GoogleGroups
• Microblogging: Twitter, Plurk
• Instant messaging: Yahoo Messenger, Skype
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Keep current, participate with peers around the world in:
• Blogging and podcasting: keeping current via RSS
• Wikis: PBWiki, Wikispaces
• Aggregation: Technorati, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Protopages, iGoogle, http://addictomatic.com, http://spezify.com
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What is TESOL Arabia?• A group?• A community?• A network?
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What is a conference?• What is an appropriate metaphor
for conference attendance?– Group? Community? Network?
• Should teachers / students be cut off from their networks?– At school? Meetings? Conferences?
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Some givens:• Growing numbers of teaching practitioners no
longer focus professional development activities on annual conferences
• Professional development is done – daily (weekly, etc.)– for free– at individual's pace and convenience
• Via Twitter, Ning, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, YahooGroups, TappedIn, WiZiQ ...
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PD models for Networked Interaction
• CALL-IS (1984)• Electronic Village Online (EVO, since 2001)• Webheads (1998, WiA since 2002)• Steve Hargadon Classroom 2.0• Free online conferences
– George Siemens’s many conferences– WiAOC
(Webheads in Action Online Convergences)– K12 Online Conference
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CALL? Think SMALL …• Social networking via social media is the new CALL
– Insinuating itself into our culture (Amazon, eBay) and work and social lives (Facebook)
– Denied as unhealthy; even dangerous by diminishing few– Used and promoted for education by growing number of
advocates– Relatively untapped potential for learning and education
• Now that the C in CALL is almost seamless, almost taken for granted, – Social networking is the new front-line– SMALL? (Social media assisted LL?)
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Professional Development
• Ongoing PD requires connection to a network• Conferences are good for face to face
interaction and interpersonal networking– But inefficient for sustained professional
development– Many conferences / schools etc require
participants to leave their networks at the door
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Key to success in keeping current Expanding productive contacts within a network
Attribute: d'arcy norman touchgraph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/436670816/
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TESOL Arabia Conferences and Chapter Events
• In future, successful conferences and professional organizations will combine
• opportunities for interpersonal connection • with connectivity and • seamless interaction with distributed personal learning
networks
– Those that do not will be decreasingly relevant
• If conferences are networked?– Who benefits? Who loses?
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• F2F conferences with rich networking potential– Learning 2.0 (Jeff Utecht, set up in Ning, Podcast)– IATEFL right now, getting better– NECC – Educon 2.0
Model Conferences
THINK SMALL
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Modeling social media in groups, communities, and networks
Vance StevensPrepared for the TESOL Arabia conference
March 12, 2010 Zayad University, Dubai
This has been
More information here: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2009/11/modeling-social-media-in-groups.html
Nurturing your PLN for everyone’s ongoing professional development
These slides posted at http://slideshare.net/vancesPresentation recording: http://tinyurl.com/100312vance-dubai