Tendrils of Learning: connections for social learning

Nancy White

Full Circle Associates

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Why connect?

Our power aslearners

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Learning pathways…

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Learning Communities

Knowledge Networks

Communities of Practice

Online Communities

Many: Networks

We: Communities

Me: the IndividualPersonal identity

Bounded membership; group identity

Boundaryless; fuzzy

Learning Communities

Knowledge Networks

Communities of Practice

Online Communities

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Community…

Perspective

Social ecosystem (1)

getting to know

Wreading

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Social ecosystem (3)

• Peer-filtering

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Social ecosystem (4)

• Distributed conversations

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Social ecosystem (5)

• Connecting with a community

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From David Wilcox

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“CoPs develop around things that matter to people…. The difference between a CoP and a team is that the shared learning and interest of its members are what keeps it together. It is defined by knowledge rather than task. It exists because participation has value to members.”

Etienne Wenger, 1998

Domain Community

PracticeDomain

Community Practice

The “Shawn Callahan Test”

I am a…

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Domain

Community?• Who is involved?• What relationships

and roles?• How do we interact

to solve problems & answer questions?

• How do we foster engagement and trust? Community

“They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems—in short a shared practice.” Wenger

Practice

Polarities

TOGETHERNESS SEPARATENESS

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INTERACTING PUBLISHING

INDIVIDUAL GROUP

Side Note: Me Online Today

Togetherness Separateness

Interacting Publishing

Individual Group

In doing, we learn.

George Herbert

Activities:

Community profilesas patterns of togetherness

Community activities

oriented to …

… meetings

… context… community cultivation

… access to expertise

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

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… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2006 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community activities

oriented to …

Course

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog Learner’s

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Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

Learner’sBlog

CentralBlog

ExternalReader

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RSS FEED

Reader

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ExternalReader

Roster

Syllabus

Schedule

Course

… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

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Community activities

oriented to …

Support Community

Forums

Directories

BlogBlog

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Social networking tools

SupportCommunity

… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

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Community activities

oriented to …

Edubloggers

Edubloggers

Community my arise between the blogs around shared interest

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Edublogger #3

Edublogger #1

Community Technology Stewardship

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“Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs…

Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.”

Wenger, White and Smith, 2007

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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, And human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

-- E.M. Forster, Howards End

Epilogue

Resourceshttp://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Tendrils+of+Learning

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ContactNancy Whitenancyw at fullcirc dot com

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