1. 1. social networks as platforms to develop reflective learning michael rowe physiotherapy department university of the western cape
2. 3. clinical practice the healthcare practitioner must constantly review and re-prioritise existing and new problems in an enterprise of active interpretation thornquist (2001a, 2001b) practice knowledge exists as a relation between questions and answers in a context of meaning that is often intuitive and hidden higgs, et al. (2004)
3. 4. tacit knowledge is hard to teach
4. 5. reflection an important component of clinical practice schon (1987) ...a mental process with purpose...applied to relatively complicated...problems for which there is no obvious solution moon (1999)
5. 6. but reflection is also hard to teach boud & walker (1999)
6. 7. making meaning through reflection is more important than memorising content
7. 8. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial environment 1. enables external knowledge to be internalised 2. develops problem solving strategies 3. promotes critical reflective thinking 4. challenges unshared biases mason (1998), hanko (1999)
8. 9. knowledge: a negotiated outcome of social learning experiences that are integrated within the network siemens (2004)
9. 10. a new communication paradigm is being constructed through community interaction and participation, which enables the formation of loosely connected groups with relative ease wesch (2009) http://bit.ly/8ZaA6g
10. 11. sharingknowledgeandexperiences in asocialenvironment?
11. 12. social networks
12. 13. to determine the impact of participation in a social network on reflective practices in a south african undergraduate physiotherapy department aim
13. 14. method set up a social network survey network participants (pre-participation) conduct workshops run assignments survey network participants (post-participation) ethical considerations
14. 15. dashboard (overview)
15. 16. comments in detail
16. 17. user interface
17. 18. where are we now?
18. 19. sharing content (knowledge?)
19. 20. sharing experiences
20. 21. reflective discussion
21. 22. spontaneous group formation
22. 23. most network activity is happening outside the assignment boundaries
23. 24. limitations access (technology) literacy (digital and information) generally poor levels of engagement
24. 25. conclusion did the social network facilitate reflection? did lecturers facilitate reflection? did reflection just happen? is it only reflection?
25. 26. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial (social) environment
26. 27. url mrowe.co.za/blog twitter michael_rowe email [email_address] thank you