8.+Classroom_Implications

Classroom Implications
Implications for the classroom  Once you're good at it, how to you support your students to understand and build PLN.  Fluidity, learning needs change, PLNs and PLEs are fluid.  Imagining the future: implications for primary, secondary, tertiary education, life long learning.  Jane with help

 Content and implications: wikip, iTunes podcasts, MIT, UCLA, Stanford, Harvard open courseware, youtubes, experts, other learners, interest groups who gather in nings, list serves, in sl...

 Vignettes in each bucket?

 Teacher must be willing to let go some control  Learners need to build self efficacy and self direction  Project and problem based learning are a good fit  For higher education - what are the implications for degrees, certification, tuition earning programs  For employers - how do you assess qualifications

 Implications and controversies  1. students participate according to their strengths - I know this is likely to be controversial...  2. assessment of the group  3. emphasis on locating, evaluating, synthesizing and making meaning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4. students will pursue that which interests <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 5. once out of school learner will be able to pursue interests <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6. retrain for jobs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 7. study according to learning styles/preferences - controversial <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 8. see self as able to contribute to knowledge base <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 9. able to build successful networks, collaborate, cross disciplines

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I believe new teachers have a challenging responsibility. They need to believe in and be willing to stand up for adoption of new technologies in education - commensurate with the adoption of new technologies in every other sphere of their (our) lives. Ok so "new teachers' is not the group of new professionals coming into the workplace? I would have thought new professionals are coming to the schools with toolkits or technical savvy, and that perhaps their challenge is to pioneer the new learning design? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communication technology demands that we rethink what it means to know, to think, to learn, to create, to construct knowledge and to play.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Learning/playing in virtual worlds is one example. Another: teachers no longer have to be the authority on everything, we have access to experts/thinkers on every topic, from all perspectives across the globe. With communication technology we can bring these knowers to our students and vice versa. Another: learners need to be able to synthesize and critique the many points of view on the web. There is no longer one right answer, only the meaning that the learner constructs. Another: Since we can no longer acquire and store (in long term memory) all of the information that we will need, learners must be able to locate just-in-time knowledge - which means that to know means to be part of a network of people and resources who know. We teach when we give tools, strategies and confidence to students to be able to find, make meaning of, create and contribute to the knowledge around us. To me that's what technology in education is about.